访谈录 2008-11-30&12-01 采访和奥巴马一起打球的兄弟

You know, I’ve known Barack maybe 12, 15 years. He is really a good ballplayer. I think there's a part of him that represents the next generation, and part of that is, you know, he is a guy likes to go out and shoot some hoops¹. What I’ve learned through this campaign is that he is in much better shape, than a lot of us. Just personally I’ve never seen anything in my life as grueling as, you know, the long primary that he went through announcing general election. We've tried to get keep up  this tradition, you know, playing ball, you know, wherever he is in the country he really appreciated it, you know having his friends, show up in north Carolina or Pennsylvania or California, kinda felt like we were helping² the effort and nobody wants to be the guy who trips him, you know gives him a fat lip. It’s not a political commentary, but he is a leftie. The book on him defensively as you wanna make him go right.

 And Barack is one of those leftie-lefties, so he likes to go left. He’s developed a little bit of a crossover dribble³, so he used to be, you can make him go right and he picked it up after a few dribbles⁴. He said publicly that he intends to install a court for court gym in the White House and like the rest of his campaign promises I’m going to expect to hold him to it. And I don’t know what Inauguration⁵ Day is gonna be like exactly but it would not surprise me at all that we don't find a way to get in, you know, a few jump shots.

 

1 hoops   

n.箍( hoop的名词复数 )；（篮球）篮圈；（旧时儿童玩的）大环子；（两端埋在地里的）小铁弓

参考例句：

• a barrel bound with iron hoops 用铁箍箍紧的桶
• Hoops in Paris were wider this season and skirts were shorter. 在巴黎，这个季节的裙圈比较宽大，裙裾却短一些。 来自飘（部分）

2 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

3 dribble   

v.点滴留下，流口水；n.口水

参考例句：

• Melted wax dribbled down the side of the candle.熔化了的蜡一滴滴从蜡烛边上流下。
• He wiped a dribble of saliva from his chin.他擦掉了下巴上的几滴口水。

4 dribbles   

n.涓滴( dribble的名词复数 )；细滴；少量（液体）v.流口水( dribble的第三人称单数 )；（使液体）滴下或作细流；运球，带球

参考例句：

• That faucet dribbles badly. 那个水龙头漏水严重。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Question: How do you make the dribbles like you always do them? 就像你经常做的，你怎么盘带？（估计也是个踢球的）。 来自互联网

5 inauguration   

n.开幕、就职典礼

参考例句：

• The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
• Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。