【英语趣味课堂】篮球明星-Basketball Superstars

Wendi: OK, so I wanna ask you who you think is the best player of all time.

 

Ken¹: All time?

 

Wendi: Basketball player.

 

Ken: Basketball player of all time? Well, that's a no-brainer. It's Michael Jordan. No one even comes close to what he's been doing, or what he did. He's one, what six, five, no five MVPs, six championships, scoring titles² every year in the league³. He makes his teammates better. By far the best player to ever play the game.

 

Wendi: I wanna know who is the, kind of, strongest player right now that you could see filling Michael Jordan's shoes.

 

Ken: If you've been watching the NBA recently, you've probably heard the name LeBron James. He's probably like 21 right now, but he's already dominating⁴ the league. He takes a team and he's carried them to the playoffs, like it's just him, no one else on the team's good. He's done very well for himself.

 

Wendi: What do you think of the little man that could, Steve Nash from Victoria?

 

Ken: Steve Nash is amazing. He's everything a basketball player shouldn't be.

 

Wendi: Really.

 

Ken: He's short, white, Canadian, floppy⁵ hair, but he's a really, really good basketball player. He's making his teammates better. Everybody wants to play with him because he's so good and, you know, he's doing real well in the playoffs right now. Maybe they might win the championship so...

1 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

2 titles   

n.（书刊的）一种( title的名词复数 )；冠军；（尤指土地或财产的）所有权；权益

参考例句：

• Others may be fond of titles and honours, but I am not. 人皆好名，我则不然。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Titles to the estate has not been extinguished. 财产的所有权尚未失效。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 league   

n.同盟，联盟，社团，联合会

参考例句：

• I'll never forget the day when I joined the Youth League.我永远不会忘记我入团的那一天。
• Half of the students in our class are League members.我们班有一半学生是团员。

4 dominating   

adj.有领导作风的；统治的，独裁的v.控制( dominate的现在分词 )；在…中占首要地位；在…中具有最重要（或明显）的特色；在…中拥有最重要的位置

参考例句：

• He is dominating and active in manner. 他有领导作风而且能采取主动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Gradually commodity production becomes the dominating form. 商品生产逐渐地成了统治的形式。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源

5 floppy   

adj.松软的，衰弱的

参考例句：

• She was wearing a big floppy hat.她戴了顶松软的大帽子。
• Can you copy those files onto this floppy disk?你能把那些文件复制到这张软盘上吗？