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体育场上的女性——冠军时刻

All In. By Billie Jean King.

《全力以赴》作者：比利·简·金

At the age of 15, Billie Jean King anticipated the trajectory¹ of her life in a school essay. A tennis prodigy², she thought she would soon make it to Wimbledon but lose in the quarter-finals. On the flight to London she would meet a heart-throb and fall in love. In time she would be happily married, “sitting with my four wonderful children” and grateful to have an education and a husband, “instead of turning out to be a tennis bum”.

15岁时，比莉·简·金在一篇学校作文中预测了自己的人生轨迹。她认为，作为一名网球神童，自己很快就会打进温布尔登，但是输掉四分之一决赛。在飞往伦敦的航班上，她会遇到一位迷人帅哥，然后坠入爱河。一段时间后，她就会幸福地结婚，“和我四个可爱的孩子坐在一起”，感激有了教育和丈夫，“而不是变成一个网球流浪汉”。

Luckily for fans at the All England club, Ms King proved better at slicing backhands than at prophesy³. Between 1961 and 1979 she won six Wimbledon singles titles and 14 in doubles in one of the 20th century’s great sporting careers. She never had children, and defended abortion⁴ rights with the example of her own terminated pregnancy⁵. She did marry a man, but later emerged as a figurehead for gay rights.

对于全英俱乐部的球迷来说，幸运的是，金女士证明了她在反手切球方面可比在预言方面做得好。1961年到1979年间，她在20世纪最伟大的体育赛事之一温布尔登网球公开赛上赢得了6次单打冠军和14次双打冠军。她从未生过孩子，并通过终止自己的妊娠进程以身作则捍卫堕胎权。她确实嫁给了一个男人，但后来发现他是同性恋权利的名义领袖。

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In “All In”, a perceptive⁶ autobiography⁷ written with Johnette Howard and Maryanne Vollers, Ms King notes that her youthful prediction reflected the stifling⁸ boundaries that hemmed⁹ in American girls in the 1950s. Few women had careers; professional women’s sports barely existed. When she began winning tennis trophies¹⁰, first near home in California, then in Europe, she encountered shocking pay disparities. To her disgust, for instance, in 1970 the Italian Open offered $3,500 to the men’s champion and $600 to the women’s.

《全力以赴》是金女士与约翰内特·霍华德和玛丽安·沃勒斯合著的一本颇具洞察力的自传，在书中金女士指出，她年轻时的预言反映了20世纪50年代美国女孩身上令人窒息的界限。极少数女性拥有事业；职业女子运动几乎不存在。当她开始赢得网球奖杯时，先是在加州的家附近，然后是在欧洲，她遭遇了令人震惊的薪酬差距。例如，令她反感的是，在1970年的意大利网球公开赛上，男子冠军和女子冠军分别获得3500美元和600美元的奖金。

Other indignities¹¹ followed. Journalists focused on female athletes’ looks, not their achievements. Ms King refused to play to type and faced snide criticism. Her outspokenness¹² was derided¹³. Male stars offered no support, laughing off the notion that fans came for ladies’ matches.

其它的轻蔑之举随之而来。记者们关注的是女运动员的长相，而不是她们的成绩。金女士拒绝按常理出牌，因此受到了刻薄的批评。她的直言不讳遭到嘲笑。男运动员们没有提供支持，对球迷来观看女子比赛的想法一笑置之。

1 trajectory   

n.弹道，轨道

参考例句：

• It is not difficult to sketch the subsequent trajectory.很容易描绘出它们最终的轨迹。
• The path followed by a projectile is called its trajectory.抛物体所循的路径称为它的轨道。

2 prodigy   

n.惊人的事物，奇迹，神童，天才，预兆

参考例句：

• She was a child prodigy on the violin.她是神童小提琴手。
• He was always a Negro prodigy who played barbarously and wonderfully.他始终是一个黑人的奇才，这种奇才弹奏起来粗野而惊人。

3 prophesy   

v.预言；预示

参考例句：

• He dares to prophesy what will happen in the future.他敢预言未来将发生什么事。
• I prophesy that he'll be back in the old job.我预言他将重操旧业。

4 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

5 pregnancy   

n.怀孕，怀孕期

参考例句：

• Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
• Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。

6 perceptive   

adj.知觉的，有洞察力的，感知的

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• He is very perceptive and nothing can be hidden from him.他耳聪目明，什么事都很难瞒住他。

7 autobiography   

n.自传

参考例句：

• He published his autobiography last autumn.他去年秋天出版了自己的自传。
• His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography.这两卷引人入胜的自传小说详述了他的生平。

8 stifling   

a.令人窒息的

参考例句：

• The weather is stifling. It looks like rain. 今天太闷热，光景是要下雨。
• We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed. 我们在那间关着窗户的热屋子里，简直透不过气来。

9 hemmed   

缝…的褶边( hem的过去式和过去分词 )； 包围

参考例句：

• He hemmed and hawed but wouldn't say anything definite. 他总是哼儿哈儿的，就是不说句痛快话。
• The soldiers were hemmed in on all sides. 士兵们被四面包围了。

10 trophies   

n.（为竞赛获胜者颁发的）奖品( trophy的名词复数 )；奖杯；（尤指狩猎或战争中获得的）纪念品；（用于比赛或赛跑名称）奖

参考例句：

• His football trophies were prominently displayed in the kitchen. 他的足球奖杯陈列在厨房里显眼的位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The hunter kept the lion's skin and head as trophies. 这猎人保存狮子的皮和头作为纪念品。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

11 indignities   

n.侮辱，轻蔑( indignity的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The soldiers who were captured suffered many indignities at the hands of the enemy. 被俘的士兵在敌人手中受尽侮辱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• What sort of indignities would he be forced to endure? 他会被迫忍受什么样的侮辱呢？ 来自辞典例句

12 outspokenness   

参考例句：

• He wondered whether his outspokenness a liability to John. 他怀疑自己那么心直口快，是否为成为约翰的包袱。
• He wondered whether his outspokenness might a. to his friend. 他怀疑自己那么心直口快，会否使他朋友背上思想包袱。

13 derided   

v.取笑，嘲笑( deride的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• His views were derided as old-fashioned. 他的观点被当作旧思想受到嘲弄。
• Gazing up to the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity. 我抬头疑视着黑暗，感到自己是一个被虚荣心驱使和拨弄的可怜虫。 来自辞典例句