... sports language, in Athletics we can say, “clear the bar, pass the ball” but not “*pass the bar, clear the ball” in English, we can understand to translate exactly in Vietnamese “vượt qua xà, ... that learning to analyze and interpret the collocation of words in the language of sports is not an easy task for students in Vietnam. Certainly, there are also translations of terms characteristic ... words that come together, either because they commonly occur together like take a chance, or because the meaning of the group is not obvious from the meaning of the parts, as with by the way or...