NBA巨星小皇帝勒布朗.詹姆斯

Lebron, we wanna quote you about being on the cover of Sports Illustrated（画报） when you were 17. You said recently “we became big-headed jerks¹, me in particular”.

You talked about how the adults around “smugly（沾沾自喜） watch the self-destruction like excited spectators² at a car crash”. What do you think is wrong with the way that we treat high school sports stars in America?

We want to see how good someone could be at such a young age, um… you know they build jobs so much, but at the same time, you know, they are waiting for you to fall. So they could say "well, there goes another one", so…

If you ran the show of sports in America, how would you treat kids under 18?

I don’t know, that’s a great question. You know, I was thinking, if a kid is a Philan (Phila is short for Philadelphia, and Philan is the people who live there...) or kid is a success at young age, I really pray and hope that he has a great supporting cast. We laugh about all those situations because it only made us um… it made us strong, at the same time, and also it was showing to fade to Akron (St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio which is James's high school...), its was on the map.

You've talked a lot about the way Akron shaped you, so when it comes to that decision in 2010 and it comes to where you go, explain what are the factors here, the heart, the loyalty³ factors?

Well my loyalty is to Akron, you know, I m looking forward to this upcoming season. I'm also, I m looking forward to the summer of 2010 to see what may happen but no matter what happens in that summer, you know, I m still here, you know, I gotta… I got a nice big house here, and I’m always coming back to…and um… you know, I love this city and I always give back to this city no matter what my profession if it takes me somewhere else.

How hard this decision do you think it's gonna be?

I don’t know, we will see, we will see once I get it.

All right, before we get to 2010 there is a 2009 season, your new teammate Shaquille O'Neal, he said just last week, he said LeBron is just tired of losing, so explain that feeling you have.

You know, bringing in this Shaq thing, we have his dominance（优势）, his presence⁴, his experience and he can help me play into late June, becasue that is the only reason I train. It doesn’t matter who's on my team, I hope everybody has that same mentality⁵ in their head, you know, we started knock it over, and we only into June here. If you are not ready to go for that long game, you are in the wrong place.

So you guys got Shaq, Orlando got Vince Carter, Boston has a healthy Kevin Garnett coming back, why are you guys the favorite to come out of this?

Why aren't we?

Do you think you are?

We are one of the best teams in the League, um… there is no favorite, the favorite is the L.A. Lakers. At the league, you know favorite’s coming out of here…coming out of… it goes to Los Angeles right now.

And you said when we are all here at Akron last week that you could play Kobe 82 games a year.
Absolutely…..

you would…..

Just I should be a better competitor I am, no matter what I got, you know, Kobe is one of those ultimate⁶ competitors, and you know if I could I'll play with him everyday.

Outside the basketball you're doing a couple of projects with President Obama, you are pretty apolitical, before last year what is it about President Obama that affected⁷ you?

um… I just thought he was ur… very cool. Everytime I watched him you know he just felt like he was always under control, you know, he got me he seems like a great leader so I got involved in. (本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 jerks   

猛拉( jerk的第三人称单数 )； （使…）猝然一动[颤动]

参考例句：

• The Physical Jerks would begin in three minutes. 再有三分钟，体操就要开始啦。 来自英汉文学
• The absence of knee jerks should suggest the diagnosis. 膝反射消失应说明此诊断。

2 spectators   

n.观众，旁观者( spectator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The spectators were wilting visibly in the hot sun. 看得出观众在炎热的阳光下快支撑不住了。
• The policemen asked the spectators to stand well back. 警察要求旁观者靠后站。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 loyalty   

n.忠诚，忠心

参考例句：

• She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
• His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。

4 presence   

n.出席；到场；存在

参考例句：

• Her presence lent an air of respectability to the occasion.她的到场使那种场合增添了崇高的气氛。
• His presence is indicative of his willingness to help.他的出席表示他愿意帮忙。

5 mentality   

n.心理，思想，脑力

参考例句：

• He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
• Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。

6 ultimate   

adj.最远的；最后的；终极的；根源的，基本的

参考例句：

• What was his ultimate goal?他的最终目标是什么？
• The sun is the ultimate store of power.太阳是能量之本。

7 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。