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剑桥雅思 17 Test 4 Part 3 Transcript / 听力原文
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Hi Thomas, how are you enjoying the course so far?
嗨，托马斯，到目前为止你对这门课程感觉如何？
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Yeah, I think it's good.
是的，我认为这很好。
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Remind me, why did you decide to study sports science?
提醒我，你为什么决定学习运动科学？
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Didn't you want to be a professional athlete when you were at school?
你在学校的时候不是想成为一名职业运动员吗？
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Yeah, that was my goal,
是的，这就是我的目标，
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and all my classmates assumed I would achieve it; they thought I was brilliant.
我所有的同学都认为我会实现这一目标；他们认为我很聪明。
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That must have been a nice feeling.
那一定是一种美好的感觉。
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Mm, I thought I could win anything.
嗯，我以为我可以赢得任何东西。
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There was no one who could run faster than me.
没有人比我跑得更快。
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Exactly, so what happened?
确实如此，那么到底发生了什么？
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Did your mum and dad want you to be more 'academic'?
你的妈妈和爸爸希望你更加“学术”吗？
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Not at all.
一点也不。
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Perhaps they should have pushed me harder, though.
不过，也许他们应该更努力地逼我。
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What do you mean?
你是什么意思？
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I think I should have practised more.
我想我应该多练习。
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What makes you say that?
是什么让你这么说？
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Well, I went out to Kenya for a couple of weeks to train...
嗯，我去肯尼亚训练了几周......
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Really! I didn't know that.
真的吗！我不知道。
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I was chosen to go there out of loads of kids and run with some of the top teenage athletes in the world.
我从众多孩子中被选中去那里，与世界上一些顶尖的青少年运动员一起跑步。
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And... I was so calm about it.
而且……我对此非常平静。
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I just kept thinking how fortunate I was.
我一直在想我是多么幸运。
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What a great chance this was!
这是多么好的机会啊！
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Everyone back home was so proud of me.
家里的每个人都为我感到骄傲。
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But once we started competing, I very quickly realised I wasn't good enough.
但一旦我们开始比赛，我很快就意识到自己还不够好。
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That must have been a huge shock.
这想必是一个巨大的震撼。
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I thought 'this can't be happening'!
我想‘这不可能发生’！
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I was used to winning.
我已经习惯了获胜。
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I'm sorry to hear that.
听到这个消息我很遗憾。
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It's OK.
没关系。
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I'm over it now
我现在已经结束了
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and I think it's much better to do a university course
我认为上大学课程会更好
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and this one has such a variety of sports-related areas.
而这个有如此多种与体育相关的领域。
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It's going to be good.
一切都会好起来的。
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Oh, I agree, I chose it because of that.
哦，我同意，我就是因为这个才选择的。
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So Jeanne, have you thought of any ideas for the discussion session next week on technology and sport?
那么珍妮，您对下周关于技术和体育的讨论会议有什么想法吗？
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We have to cover more than one sport, don't we?
我们必须报道不止一项运动，不是吗？
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Yeah.
是的。
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You know, we always think technology is about the future,
你知道，我们一直认为科技关乎未来，
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but we could gather some ideas about past developments in sport.
但我们可以收集一些关于体育过去发展的想法。
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Look at early types of equipment perhaps?
也许看看早期的设备类型？
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I remember reading something about table tennis bats once,
我记得曾经读过一些关于乒乓球拍的文章，
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how they ended up being covered with pimpled rubber.
它们最后是如何被带疙瘩的橡胶覆盖的。
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Cos they were just wooden at first, I'd imagine.
因为我想它们一开始只是木制的。
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Yeah.
是的。
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In about the 1920s,
大约在20世纪20年代，
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a factory was making rolls of the rubber in bulk for something like horse harnesses.
一家工厂正在批量生产橡胶卷，用于马具之类的东西。
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Really!
真的吗！
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Yeah, and someone realised that it would make a perfect covering for the wooden bats.
是的，有人意识到它可以为木制球棒提供完美的覆盖物。
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So what about cricket,
那么板球呢？
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that's had a few innovative changes.
这有一些创新性的变化。
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Maybe the pads they wear on their legs?
也许是他们穿在腿上的护垫？
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I don't think they've changed much but, I'm just looking on the internet...
我不认为他们有太大改变，但我只是在网上看...
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and it says that when the first cricket helmet came in, in 1978,
上面说，当第一个板球头盔于 1978 年问世时，
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the Australian batsman who first wore it was booed and jeered by people watching because it was so ugly!
第一次穿上它的澳大利亚击球手遭到了观看者的嘘声和嘲笑，因为它太丑了！
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Wow, players have to protect themselves from getting hurt!
哇，玩家们要保护自己不受伤！
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I mean everyone wears one now.
我的意思是现在每个人都穿一件。
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Mm, unlike the cycle helmet.
嗯，与自行车头盔不同。
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Well, unless you're a professional,
好吧，除非你是专业人士
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but you're right, many ordinary bikers don't wear a helmet.
但你是对的，许多普通骑自行车的人不戴头盔。
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Hey, look at these pictures of original helmet designs.
嘿，看看这些原始头盔设计的图片。
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This one looks like an upside-down bowl!
这个看起来像一个倒置的碗！
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Yet, the woman's laughing,
然而，女人却在笑，
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she's so proud to be wearing it!
她很自豪能穿着它！
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It says serious cyclists ended up with wet hair from all the hard exercise.
据说，认真的骑自行车的人在所有艰苦的锻炼中最终都会弄湿头发。
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I guess that's why they have large air vents in them now
我想这就是为什么他们现在有大通风口
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so that the skin can breathe more easily.
让皮肤更容易呼吸。
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OK, so we've done helmets.
好的，我们已经完成了头盔。
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What about golf balls or better still golf clubs,
高尔夫球或者更好的高尔夫球杆怎么样？
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they've changed a lot.
他们改变了很多。
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Yeah, I remember my great grandfather telling me that because a club was made entirely of wood,
是的，我记得我的曾祖父告诉我，因为球杆完全是用木头制成的，
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it would easily break and players had to get another.
它很容易破裂，玩家必须再买一个。
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There's no wood at all in them now, is there?
现在里面已经没有木头了，是吗？
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No, they're much more powerful.
不，他们更强大。
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The same must be true of hockey sticks.
曲棍球棒也必须如此。
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I don't think so because players still use wooden sticks today.
我不这么认为，因为今天玩家仍然使用木棍。
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What it does say here, though,
不过，它在这里所说的，
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is that when the game started you had to produce a stick yourself.
游戏开始时你必须自己制作一根棍子。
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I guess they just weren't being manufactured.
我猜它们只是没有被制造出来。
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So, one more perhaps.
那么，也许还有一个。
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What about football?
足球呢？
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Well, I know the first balls were made of animal skin.
嗯，我知道第一个球是用动物皮制成的。
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Yeah, they covered them with pieces of leather that were stitched together,
是的，他们用缝合在一起的皮革片覆盖它们，
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but... the balls let in water when it rained.
但是...下雨时球会进水。
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Oh, that would have made them much heavier.
哦，那会让它们变得更重。
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That's right.
这是正确的。
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You can imagine the damage to player's necks when the ball was headed.
您可以想象头球时球员颈部受到的伤害。
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Oh, how painful that must have been!
哦，那该是多么痛苦啊！
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Yeah, well, I think we can put together some useful ideas...
是的，我想我们可以提出一些有用的想法......
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