访谈录 2011-04-10&04-12 棒球巨星CC沙巴西亚专访

-You’ve lost some weight. What is your, it is none of my business, but how much did you weight at, at your top number?

-Last year, I was, I weighted about 315, hum, I am like down

to 290 now.

-Oh, congratulations.

-Yeah, you look good.

-Thank you.

-Now we are, does that affect your, the mechanics¹ of your pitching because there is less of you to…

-No, I have the knee surgery² at the end of October, so, I just want to try to take some pressure off my knee and you know, loss a little weight. I feel good this time.

-How were you able to lose weight?

-Dieting and workout. I always workout but I just, you know, we are going to McDonald’s right after. So I had to cut that. I have to cut that out.

-You see, there you go. Right there.

-And the rest of pitching staff, Andy Pettitte has retired³, is that right? So it is yourself there take through the rotation⁴.

-A.J Burnett.

-He is good, right?

-Yes, he is good. Phil Hughes.

-Phil Hughes？

-Yeah, he won 18 games last year. Ivan Nova.

-Kid?

-Yeah, he is kid. He came up last year, second half, he is good. And Freddy Garcia.

-Freddy Garcia, how do treat the kids. Is that okay to have a kid on the team or?

-Oh, yes.

-You don’t horse around him?

-No, no, not at all. You buy him some suits and try the sell him twice.

-Buy him some suits? Buy some suits. Oh my god.

1 mechanics   

n.力学，机械学；结构

参考例句：

• The mechanics of fixing a car are very long.修理一部汽车的过程很长。
• The mechanics of the machine are very old.这台机器的机件非常老。

2 surgery   

n.外科，外科手术；手术室

参考例句：

• What time does surgery finish?门诊什么时间结束？
• Your condition is serious and requires surgery.你的情况很严重，需要动外科手术。

3 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

4 rotation   

n.旋转；循环，轮流

参考例句：

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
• The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。