美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-01-18

 Hi, I¡¯m Anderson Cooper. Welcome to the podcast. Lance Armstrong finally stops to lie about cheating. But they haven¡¯t much he¡¯s really willing to tell. Also the ridiculous. Let¡¯s get started. 

We begin tonight as we do every night. Keeping Them Honest, looking for facts, not offering up opinions or playing favorites. Not supporting on political side or another. Our goal is just reporting, finding the truth and calling out hypocrisy¹. And there¡¯s no bigger example of that tonight, or possibly ever in the history of sports, than what happened to American icon² Lance Armstrong over the last 24 hours. 

He cheated, he lied about it for years and years and years, and now he¡¯s reportedly coming clean, somewhat. How much did Lance Armstrong say in the interview he just taped with Oprah Winfrey. He reportedly admits to using performance-enhancing drugs to win bicycle races. And Oprah says he was, quote ¡°pretty forthcoming¡±, and that he did not come clean in the manner she expected. Exactly what that means is not clear. Oprah is too good to give it all away. 

I choose not to characterize. 

I would rather people make their own decisions about whether he was contrite³ or not. I felt that he was thoughtful. I thought that he was serious. I thought that he certainly had prepared himself for this moment. I would say that he met the moment. And at the end of it, two and a half, literally⁴ two and a half hours, we both were pretty exhausted⁵. And I would say I was satisfied. 

Well, whatever ultimately made it to tape, and we won¡¯t know until later this week, long-time followers⁶ of Armstrong say they are not ready to take anything he says face value. Reporters, teammates, even one-time friends, they all describe the seven-time Tour De France winner, cancer survivor⁷ and charity founder⁸, as a born manipulator who¡¯ll do whatever it takes for only one person, Lance Armstrong. 

Keeping Them Honest, they point to a record of lying that rivals his record of winning. 

We¡¯re sick and tired of these allegations and we¡¯re going to do everything we can to fight them. They¡¯re absolutely untrue. 

I¡¯ve said it for seven years. I¡¯ve said it for longer than seven years. I have never doped. I can say it again. But I¡¯ve said it for seven years. It doesn¡¯t help. 

How could it have taken place when I¡¯ve never taken performance-enhancing drugs?

Go back to 1995, one of your former teammates, Steven Swart, he was riding with you, he¡¯s a kiwi on the Motorola team. He has told ESPN on the record and on camera that back in 95 when the team was struggling that you announced to the team that you were going to begin doping and you were encouraging other teammates to do the same. What do you say to that account? 

Now again, complete nonsense.

It can¡¯t be any clearer that I¡¯ve never taken drugs, then incidents like that could never have happened. 

Why would I then enter into a sport and dope myself up and risk my life again? That¡¯s crazy. I would never do that, that¡¯s no, no way. 

My case, I mean, I came out of a life-threatening disease. I was on my death bed. Do you think I¡¯m going to come back into a sport and say, ok, ok, doctor, give me everything you got, I just want to go fast. No way, would never do that. 

That was Lance Armstrong denying it all, time and time again. Since then, U.S. anti-doping agency has put out more than 1,000 pages of allegations and evidence against Armstrong and his teammates, calling Armstrong¡¯s drug ring the most sophisticated in the history of sports. He¡¯s been stripped of his seven Tour De France titles, barred from competition, stepped down from the Livestrong charity that he founded. Until now he¡¯s denied everything. Not only that, as you¡¯ll see, he¡¯s got a long history of lashing⁹ out at people who tried to expose him, the people who dared to suggest that Armstrong was on something other than his bike. That was, in many cases, a brave stance to take. Because in almost every case it was followed by a Lance Armstrong sponsored scorch¹⁰ earth campaign.

1 hypocrisy   

n.伪善，虚伪

参考例句：

• He railed against hypocrisy and greed.他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。
• He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。

2 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。

3 contrite   

adj.悔悟了的，后悔的，痛悔的

参考例句：

• She was contrite the morning after her angry outburst.她发了一顿脾气之后一早上追悔莫及。
• She assumed a contrite expression.她装出一副后悔的表情。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 exhausted   

adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的

参考例句：

• It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
• Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。

6 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

7 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

8 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

9 lashing   

n.鞭打；痛斥；大量；许多v.鞭打( lash的现在分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The speaker was lashing the crowd. 演讲人正在煽动人群。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The rain was lashing the windows. 雨急打着窗子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 scorch   

v.烧焦，烤焦；高速疾驶；n.烧焦处，焦痕

参考例句：

• I could not wash away the mark of the scorch.我洗不掉这焦痕。
• This material will scorch easily if it is too near the fire.这种材料如果太靠近炉火很容易烤焦。