世界名人简介 第49期:伊莲娜·伊辛巴耶娃

 Yelena Isinbayeva is the greatest female pole vaulter¹ ever. She won the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Gold Medal and has twice been the IAAF’s Female Athlete of the Year. In 2005, she became the first woman to clear five metres and is the current world record holder². Isinbayeva is also an avid³ reader of Russian history and a collector of dolphins,both model and real.

伊莲娜·伊辛巴耶娃是历史上最伟大的撑杆跳运动员。她获得了2004年，2008年奥运会冠军，并12次获得国际田径联合会年度女运动员称号。2005年，她成为首位跳过5米的运动员，并保持着世界记录。伊辛巴耶娃还热衷于阅读俄罗斯历史，她还喜欢收集海豚模型，更喜欢真海豚。

Isinbayeva was born in Volgograd, Russia in 1982. From the age of five, she trained as a gymnast. However, she quit the sport when she was 15 because at 1.74 metres she was too tall. She loved competition and switched to pole vaulting⁴. Her first big competition was the 1998 World Junior Championships, where she finished ten centimeters outside the medals.

1982年，伊辛巴耶娃出生于俄罗斯的伏尔加格勒。她从5岁时开始练习体操。由于她当时1米74的身高，15岁那年，她放弃了体操。她喜欢竞赛，并转入撑杆跳项目。她的首次世界大赛是1982年的世界青年锦标赛，她以10厘米的劣势无缘奖牌。

Isinbayeva showed her true potential in 1999 at the World Youth Games in Poland. She cleared 4.10m to take her very first gold medal. She would improve by nearly one metre over the next decade. In 2000, she won gold again at the Youth Games and the European Junior Championships

1999年，在波兰举行的世界青年运动会，伊辛巴耶娃展现了她的潜能。她以4米10的成绩获得金牌。在未来的10年里，她将成绩提高了将近1米。2000年，她又一次在青年运动会，以及欧洲青年锦标赛上夺金。

In 2003, Yelena burst onto the world stage when she broke the world record, clearing 4.82m at a meeting in England. She built up an intense rivalry⁵ with her compatriot Svetlana Feofanova. Going into the 2004 Olympics, Feofanova was world record holder. Isinbayeva won gold and reclaimed⁶ the world record. She plans to compete until the World Championships in Moscow in 2013.

2003年，她在英国举行的大奖赛上以4米82的成绩打破世界纪录，而这也让她站上了世界舞台。她的最大竞争对手是同胞斯维特兰娜·菲奥法诺娃。2004年，菲奥法诺娃打破了世界纪录。之后，伊辛巴耶娃再次获得冠军，并再次打破世界纪录。她计划在2013年莫斯科田径世锦赛之后退役。

1.world record 世界纪录

例句：The achievement he made heads the world record.

他创造的成绩打破了世界纪录。

2.pole vaulter 撑杆跳高运动员

例句：Born in the United States to Greek parents, Clentzos was a pole vaulter at the University of Southern California in the early 1930s.

克伦特佐斯的双亲都是希腊人，不过他是在美国出生的。克伦特佐斯在上个世纪三十年代是美国南加州大学的一名撑竿跳高运动员。

3.record holder 纪录保持者

例句：Second, "until now tablets had been found only in a handful of major palaces"—including the previous record holder, which was found among palace ruins in what was the city of Mycenae.

第二，直到现在，粘土碑也仅在屈指可数的一些主要宫殿中发现，包括之前的纪录保持者也是在迈锡尼城市废墟中发现的。

4.gold medal 金牌

例句：Each country wants every gold medal. That is understandable.

每个国家都想得金牌，这是可以理解的。

1 vaulter   

n.撑竿跳运动员

参考例句：

• The pole vaulter bettered the world's record by five inches. 这名撑杆跳高运动员以5英寸之多超过了世界纪录。
• And the almost unbeatable pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva added one more gold to Russia's tally. 几乎不可战胜的撑杆跳高名将伊辛巴耶娃又给俄罗斯军团增添一金。

2 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

3 avid   

adj.热心的；贪婪的；渴望的；劲头十足的

参考例句：

• He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他还想贪图更多的钱。
• She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教练的称赞。

4 vaulting   

n.（天花板或屋顶的）拱形结构

参考例句：

• The vaulting horse is a difficult piece of apparatus to master. 鞍马是很难掌握的器械。
• Sallie won the pole vaulting. 莎莉撑杆跳获胜。

5 rivalry   

n.竞争，竞赛，对抗

参考例句：

• The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
• He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。

6 reclaimed   

adj.再生的；翻造的；收复的；回收的v.开拓( reclaim的过去式和过去分词 )；要求收回；从废料中回收（有用的材料）；挽救

参考例句：

• Many sufferers have been reclaimed from a dependence on alcohol. 许多嗜酒成癖的受害者已经被挽救过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They reclaimed him from his evil ways. 他们把他从邪恶中挽救出来。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》