体育美语028讲

Y: (breathing heavily)

P: Yang Chen, You are totally out of breath. What's wrong? Are you running away from the police?

Y: Hey! NOT funny! 警察才不会追我呢。我是在练长跑。一千五百米。

P: So you are training for the 1500m. You want to be the fastest in the world?

Y: No. I just want to be faster than you.

P: That's not so easy. You know I'm very good at distance events.

Y 你擅长distance events，那我们要比试比试才知道谁更快。

P: Well, speed isn't the only important thing to win a distance race, Yang Chen.

Y: Yeah yeah, I know - 长跑除了speed速度，还要有patience耐心。

P: Well, patience is good, and so is endurance.

Y: 耐力 。

P: In the Olympics, distance events are among the most difficult because they involve speed, endurance, patience, and - tactics.

Y: 策略?

P: By tactics, I mean planning ahead how to make your moves.

Some of the world's greatest distance runners do not take the lead until the very end of the race.

Y: 好像最后得冠军的都不是一开始跑在最前面的人，而是到了最后才take the lead 。

P: Right. And they have to maintain the lead until they make a final kick. It's the runner's sprint in the end of the race.

Y: 最后冲刺 。

P: Right. So, Yang Chen, have you been working on YOUR kick? OW!

Y: You mean, THAT kind of kick?

P: Ouch, that hurts.

• breath [breθ]   n.呼吸；气息   (初中英语单词)
• running [´rʌniŋ]   a.奔跑的；流动的   (初中英语单词)
• patience [´peiʃəns]   n.忍耐(力)；耐心；坚韧   (初中英语单词)
• involve [in´vɔlv]   vt.卷缠；包括；使专注   (初中英语单词)
• maintain [mein´tein]   vt.维持；保持；继续   (初中英语单词)
• working [´wə:kiŋ]   a.工人的；劳动的   (初中英语单词)
• endurance [in´djuərəns]   n.忍受(耐)；耐力   (高中英语单词)
• totally [´təutəli]   ad.统统，完全   (英语四级单词)
• tactics [´tæktiks]   n.策略；战术   (英语四级单词)