【英语时差8,16】The Fastest Runner 飞毛腿运动员

Reporter: The bolt is loaded. He is the fastest man on earth at the moment and this is what happened at the World Athletics¹ Championship in Berlin. Reporter: The world hundred metre final. Set. They get away first time, Tyson get right alongside Usain Bolt but here he goes streaking² away already, it’s Bolt all the way, he’s looking round, watch the clock, it’s Gold for Bolt and again, he’s done it again! A new world record for Usain Bolt! Usain Bolt’s world record of 9.58 seconds is simply unbelievable. Well, Leon Baptiste is a British 100-metre sprinter³. Here he explains what he thinks makes Bolt such an incredible runner. It was amazing, no one has seen that time before, it’s a world record, it’s the way that he’d done it. He’s got personality. And it was really amazing, he has really set the standard now. Well, if you look at Usain Bolt’s run, he’s technically⁴, he’s probably the best, execution from the blocks. His stride length is really good. These are the sort of things that myself and all these up and coming sprinters are working on and that’s what we aspire⁵ to be. Dr. Dan Toon is a sports technologist at the research centre and here he talks about the secret of running shoes. We use a laser to cinder⁶ the powder, in order to make these sole units, the same technology that’s been used to make fighter aircraft. And each athlete can have a stiffness which is exacting⁷ to their requirement. So some athletes might have a really really flexible shoe, one which is really really bendy. And some athletes might have one like this which is incredibly stiff. And those differences might be incredibly small, we might be talking hundredths of a second, but that might be the difference between first and second place over a hundred meters.

1 athletics   

n.运动，体育，田径运动

参考例句：

• When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.我上学的时候体育十分糟糕。
• Our team tied with theirs in athletics.在田径比赛中，我们队与他们队旗鼓相当。

2 streaking   

n.裸奔（指在公共场所裸体飞跑）v.快速移动( streak的现在分词 )；使布满条纹

参考例句：

• Their only thought was of the fiery harbingers of death streaking through the sky above them. 那个不断地在空中飞翔的死的恐怖把一切别的感觉都赶走了。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
• Streaking is one of the oldest tricks in the book. 裸奔是有书面记载的最古老的玩笑之一。 来自互联网

3 sprinter   

n.短跑运动员，短距离全速奔跑者

参考例句：

• He is more a sprinter than a swimmer. 他是短跑健将，而不是游泳选手。 来自辞典例句
• The sprinter himself thinks he can run the race at 9.4 seconds. 这位短跑运动员自认为可以用9.4秒跑完比赛。 来自互联网

4 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

5 aspire   

vi.(to，after)渴望，追求，有志于

参考例句：

• Living together with you is what I aspire toward in my life.和你一起生活是我一生最大的愿望。
• I aspire to be an innovator not a follower.我迫切希望能变成个开创者而不是跟随者。

6 cinder   

n.余烬，矿渣

参考例句：

• The new technology for the preparation of superfine ferric oxide from pyrite cinder is studied.研究了用硫铁矿烧渣为原料，制取超细氧化铁红的新工艺。
• The cinder contains useful iron,down from producing sulphuric acid by contact process.接触法制硫酸的矿渣中含有铁矿。

7 exacting   

adj.苛求的，要求严格的

参考例句：

• He must remember the letters and symbols with exacting precision.他必须以严格的精度记住每个字母和符号。
• The public has been more exacting in its demands as time has passed.随着时间的推移，公众的要求更趋严格。