欧美文化博览 迈克尔•乔丹传(4)

 

Status is a lot when you're in high school. So you can imagine the disappointment that I got, when I felt like I should have made the team, but then didn't make the team. I'm crying, I lost my emotions totally. My mother came to me and said, "Use that energy to prove to the coach and to your peers¹ and your classmates, that they made a mistake."

当你高中的时候状态会非常好。所以你可以想象我的失望,我觉得我应该带领球队获胜,但后来却没有。我哭了,我完全丧失了理智。母亲走到我跟前,说道“用你的能力证明给教练,你的同事及你的同学,众人皆醉唯你独醒。”

You give it your best. You try so hard and you get to the point---I know I can do it. And if you try one more time, you are able to achieve it. It's going one step farther². That's not giving up, it's giving your best. I only will walk away when I know I do not have anything else to give.

你尽了自己最大努力。你急切渴望并最终明白了—点，那就是我知道我能。如果你再试一次,你就能做到。这是迈向前方更远的一步。那是不放弃,这会给你最好的。当知道自己没有什么要给你们时，我只会选择离开。

The disappointment was so deep, like a cut, it struck the fire in me to make sure that I never endure³ that type of pain again.

失望是如此之深,就像刀口,忽然火在自己体内燃烧，我从未忍受过那种痛苦。

In the second round of the playoffs, Michael returned home with a vengeance---playing the Charlotte Hornets. It would be Michael's last professional appearance in North Carolina.

在季后赛第二轮,迈克尔在对阵夏洛特黄蜂队时复仇者的姿态返回。这是迈克尔在北卡罗莱那州的最后一次亮相。

It's always been a treat to come back home when you've grown up here and you go out and become a man on your own, and then come back home to show what's evolved⁴ of that person.

这是对待家乡的最好方式,你在这里长大后走出去,成为一个自己希望的大男人,然后回到家里来展示给家乡父老你自己的进化。

1 peers   

n.同等的人，贵族vi.凝视，窥视vt.与…同等，封为贵族v.凝视( peer的第三人称单数 )；盯着看；同等；比得上

参考例句：

• She enjoys the respect of her peers. 她受到同侪的尊敬。
• She peers into my eyes. 她盯着我的眼睛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 farther   

adj.更远的，进一步的；adv.更远的，此外；far的比较级

参考例句：

• I can throw the ball farther than you can.这个球我能比你扔得远。
• The farther hill is five kilometres away.那座更远的小山在五公里以外。

3 endure   

vt.忍受(痛苦、困难等)，耐住

参考例句：

• If other people can endure hardship,why can't I? 人家能吃苦，我就不能？
• You can only guess at what mental suffering they endure.你只能猜测他们忍受着多大的精神痛苦。

4 evolved   

动词evolve的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The idea evolved from a drawing I discovered in the attic. 这种想法是从我在阁楼里发现的一幅画得到启发的。
• Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal. 人大概是从住在树上的祖先进化而来的。