英语访谈对话 25 Mr. Baseball

 　　Todd: OK. Kevin, we're back here in the forest. Um, we're gonna talk about sports.

　　Kevin: OK. Great. I love sports.

　　Todd: What sports do you like?

　　Kevin: Well, my favorite sport is baseball, obviously¹ I grew up and my father was a baseball player, so I was always around baseball.

　　Todd: Wow.

　　Kevin: My whole life.

　　Todd: You mean your father was a player in the Major Leagues.

　　Kevin: Yeah, exactly, and not only was he a player in the Major Leagues, he was fortunate enough to play in the World Series² twice with the New York Mets.

　　Todd: Wow. That's amazing.

　　Kevin: Yeah, The Amazing Met's. 1969.

　　Todd: Wow, that's great. Did you play baseball yourself?

　　Kevin: Yeah, I played baseball pretty much my whole life up through college and university.

　　Todd: OK. Why did you stop?

　　Kevin: Well, it wasn't exactly by choice. I wasn't drafted³ high enough in professional⁴ baseball to, in order for me to sign, so I ended up retiring from baseball and persuing other things.

　　Todd: OK. Great. Do you like any others sports?

　　Kevin: Yeah. I actually, I enjoy all competition. You know I enjoy the, the other typical American sports of basketball and American football and so on, but I also try to learn about and enjoy the, the national sport of the countries that I'm in. For example now I'm in Japan and I've actually gotten quite into Sumo wrestling⁵.

　　Todd: Oh, really.

　　Kevin: Yeah!

　　Todd: Nice. Have you ever seen a sumo match live?

　　Kevin: Yes, I have. I've been to two sumo, uh, bashos as they call them, or matches in Tokyo.

　　Todd: Nice. Yeah, I wanna go, I wanna go myself

　　Kevin: Yeah! Let's go sometime⁶.

　　Todd: OK. Let's do it.

1 obviously   

adv.显然；明白地

参考例句：

• Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
• Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。

2 series   

n.连续；系列

参考例句：

• The students have put forward a series of questions.学生们提出了一系列问题。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

3 drafted   

v.起草( draft的过去式和过去分词 )；制定；征募；拟稿

参考例句：

• The government has drafted out its plan for future laws. 政府已草拟了未来法律的规划。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He was drafted last autumn by the Detroit Lions. 他去年秋天被底特律雄狮队选作队员了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 professional   

adj.专业的；职业的；n.专业人员；职业运动员

参考例句：

• He is a professional tennis player.他是一名职业网球运动员。
• I need a professional to sort out my finances.我需要专业人士为我管理财务。

5 wrestling   

n.摔跤；摔角

参考例句：

• There is a wrestling match tonight.今晚有摔交比赛。
• He defaulted in the wrestling tournament.他在摔跤比赛中弃权了。

6 sometime   

adv.将来某一时候；改天

参考例句：

• He came sometime last month.上个月某个时候他曾经来过。
• It will happen sometime and somewhere.有朝一日这总会在什么地方发生的。