纽约时报 政客能成为像体育明星一样的英雄吗?(1)

A postgame interview offers a reminder¹ that the spectacle of public life is best backed up with real work.

赛后的采访提醒我们，壮观的公众生活是由真正的工作来支撑的。

By Jason Zengerle.

文/杰森·曾格尔

The scene is so familiar that it's practically banal².

这个场景太熟悉了，简直是平谈无奇。

Damian Lillard, the Portland Trailblazers' All-Star guard, stands on a basketball court, covered in sweat and breathing heavily, fresh from scoring 50 points to lead the Blazers to a comeback win last month.

波特兰开拓者队全明星后卫达米恩·利拉德站在篮球场上，浑身是汗，喘着粗气。上个月，他刚刚拿下50分，带领开拓者队逆转胜利。

From a TV studio far away, Dwyane Wade³, an All-Star guard turned commentator⁴, asks Lillard how he manages to make commercials, record music, raise three children and still drain 3-point shots from near half-court.

在远程的电视演播室里，由全明星后卫转行做解说员的德怀恩·韦德问利拉德，他是如何做到拍广告、录制音乐、抚养三个孩子，还能在近半场不停地投出三分球的。

This is where the script calls for Lillard to fall back on the usual jock clichés about thanking God and taking it one game at a time.

剧本要求利拉德回到通常的运动员的陈词滥调上，如感谢上帝，仅是看做一场比赛。

Instead, he moves in a different direction. "None of those things that you just named would be possible without the work," Lillard says.

相反，他却转移了话题。利拉德说：“如果没有这项工作，你刚才提到的那些东西都不可能实现。”

"I wasn't a highly touted⁵ middle school player, high school player or college player. I had to do my work behind the scenes."

“我不是一个被高度吹捧的初中球员、高中球员或大学球员。幕后我得做好我的工作。”

He goes on to recall what it was like "to not have the lights on you and to want to be seen" and the methodical process involved in escaping that condition.

他接着回忆起“没有聚光灯追着你，又却想被人看到”的感觉，以及摆脱这种状况的过程。

Then, summoning the underdog spirit of Rocky Balboa and the Protestant ethic⁶ of Max Weber,

接着，他引用了洛奇·巴尔博亚的失败者精神和马克斯·韦伯的新教伦理，

he says: "I don't forget those steps that it took for me to get here. So even though I got a family and I got all these commercials and these endorsements⁷, I don't forget the thing that makes all of those things possible. Which is the work, the discipline."

说道：“我没有忘记我走到今天所经历的那些步骤。因此，尽管我有了家庭，有了广告，有了代言，我没有忘记是什么让这一切成为可能，那就是工作和纪律。”

1 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

2 banal   

adj.陈腐的，平庸的

参考例句：

• Making banal remarks was one of his bad habits.他的坏习惯之一就是喜欢说些陈词滥调。
• The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

3 wade   

v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉

参考例句：

• We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
• We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。

4 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。

5 touted   

v.兜售( tout的过去式和过去分词 )；招揽；侦查；探听赛马情报

参考例句：

• She's being touted as the next leader of the party. 她被吹捧为该党的下一任领导人。
• People said that he touted for his mother and sister. 据说，他给母亲和姐姐拉生意。 来自辞典例句

6 ethic   

n.道德标准，行为准则

参考例句：

• They instilled the work ethic into their children.他们在孩子们的心中注入了职业道德的理念。
• The connotation of education ethic is rooted in human nature's mobility.教育伦理的内涵根源于人本性的变动性。

7 endorsements   

n.背书( endorsement的名词复数 )；（驾驶执照上的）违章记录；（公开的）赞同；（通常为名人在广告中对某一产品的）宣传

参考例句：

• He must make much money on those tennis shoe endorsements he does. 他替那些网球鞋珍重广告，就赚了不少钱。 来自互联网
• But celebrity endorsements remain an important promotional tool for marketers. 尽管如此，邀明星助阵仍是营销人员重要的推广手段之一。 来自互联网