NBC晚间新闻 NFL首位女性裁判产生

Sarah Thomas poised¹ to become first permanent female NFL referee²

Sarah Thomas淡定的成为NFL的首位女性永久裁判

After working her way up through Pee Wee, high school and the NCAA, mother-of-three Sarah Thomas ready to take on professional football. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports.

执法过Pee Wee高中大赛和NCAA大赛之后，Sarah Thomas，三个孩子的妈妈，准备好执法职业感篮球联赛了。NBC的Stephanie Gosk报道。

Finally tonight, a lot of barriers are made to be broken. And a big one may be about to break in the NFL. That's if one woman who has been working her way up through the minors³ gets her way and makes her way to the pros⁴ as a ref. Our report tonight from NBC's Stephanie Gosk.

reporter: Being an NFL ref can be thankless. After any given call half of these big, sweaty guys may get very angry. Refs take some serious heat. But Sarah Thomas still wants to be one of them.

There is a drive in me that says, I want to nail it. I want to work the perfect game .

reporter: Thomas, a mother of three, with a 7-month-old baby girl is on track to become professional football's first permanent female ref. But being first hasn't been her focus.

If you are doing something because you love it and not doing it for recognition things just kind of have a tendency to fall in place.

reporter: Part of the NFL's development program, Thomas may ref her first regular season game in 2014 .

We got the best players in the worLd. We got the best coaches in the world.

reporter: The 40-year-old ref has worked her way through up, Pee Wee high school and most recently the NCAA. Embraced on the field now she did get funny looks when she joined her brother at a clinic for aspiring⁵ refs.

I just kind of broke the ice.

reporter: Football is a demanding game to officiate both mentally and physically⁶.

She doesn't just need to know the rules and make the calls she's gonna keep up with thees guys. She has to be fit, fast, and agile⁷, in essence she's gonna be an athlete too.

I see some of the women out there running, some look faster than the guys out there.

reporter: She passed a quick integrity test. I am a huge New England Patriots⁸ fan, so when you do make it to the NFL , I wonder if you could maybe do something for them, they're not going to be that good this year.

I am not hearing this lingo⁹.

reporter: Sarah Thomas is ready to take the field. A man's game, but soon it will be a woman's call. Stephanie Gosk, NBC news, New Orleans.

1 poised   

a.摆好姿势不动的

参考例句：

• The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
• Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张，手悬在电话机上。

2 referee   

n.裁判员．仲裁人，代表人，鉴定人

参考例句：

• The team was left raging at the referee's decision.队员们对裁判员的裁决感到非常气愤。
• The referee blew a whistle at the end of the game.裁判在比赛结束时吹响了哨子。

3 minors   

n.未成年人( minor的名词复数 )；副修科目；小公司；[逻辑学]小前提v.[主美国英语]副修，选修，兼修( minor的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors. 法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He had three minors this semester. 这学期他有三门副修科目。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 pros   

abbr.prosecuting 起诉；prosecutor 起诉人；professionals 自由职业者；proscenium （舞台）前部n.赞成的意见( pro的名词复数 )；赞成的理由；抵偿物；交换物

参考例句：

• The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前，应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 aspiring   

adj.有志气的；有抱负的；高耸的v.渴望；追求

参考例句：

• Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
• He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句

6 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

7 agile   

adj.敏捷的，灵活的

参考例句：

• She is such an agile dancer!她跳起舞来是那么灵巧！
• An acrobat has to be agile.杂技演员必须身手敏捷。

8 patriots   

爱国者，爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
• These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死，也不愿投降。

9 lingo   

n.语言不知所云，外国话，隐语

参考例句：

• If you live abroad it helps to know the local lingo.住在国外，学一点当地的语言自有好处。
• Don't use all that technical lingo try and explain in plain English.别尽用那种专门术语，用普通的词语解释吧。