warm-up game

8月30日，中国男篮在哈尔滨以96比80战胜冰岛队，获得了亚锦赛前最后一场热身赛的胜利。姚明首发出场23分钟，得到15分7个篮板。9月8日中国队将在多哈迎来亚锦赛首场比赛。请看报道： Yao Ming scored 15 points Tuesday to help China win its last warm-up game, a 96-80 win over Iceland. China got behind 22-24 in the first quarter due to the absence of Liu Wei and but ended the first half with a 52-43 lead. In the third quarter, China dominated the game with successive long-shotsand kept the lead 79-65. 文中的warm-up game表示"热身赛"。A warm up is a short period of gentle exercise and stretching that people do before they do more active exercise.（运动或比赛前的）准备活动；热身运动，例如：A warm-up is important before a run so as not to strain any muscles.（为了避免拉伤肌肉，跑步前做做准备活动很重要。）warm up还可用做动词表示"做准备活动"，如：If you don't warm up before taking exercise, you risk injuring yourself.（假如运动前不做准备活动，你就有受伤的可能。） （中国日报网站编）