Muhammad Ali
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents A New Champion.
内容表 A 新冠军.
4 Childhood.
4 童年时期。
6 Going for the Gold.
6去取黄金。
8 Muhammad Ali.
8 穆罕默德·阿里.
9 Refusing to Fight.
9,拒绝出战.
10 The Comeback.
10"回来".
11 Two Amazing Fights.
11 二场惊人的战斗.
12 Retired but Still Fighting.
12 退休但仍在战斗。
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 A New Champion In 1964, the heavyweight boxing champ, Sonny Liston, prepared to defend his title.
16个新冠军 1964年,重量级拳击冠军桑尼·利斯顿准备为他的头衔作辩护.
Liston was so tough that some boxers were afraid to face him.
李斯通很强硬,以至于一些拳击手不敢面对他.
No one expected his latest challenger to win.
没人指望他最新的挑战者会赢
While most boxers stood still and hit hard, Cassius Clay danced around the ring, throwing quick jabs.
虽然大多数拳击手都站了住并狠狠地打一顿,卡西乌斯·克莱却在环上跳起舞来,投出快打.
And while most boxers let their fists do the talking, Clay invented creative taunts, including a poem about punching Liston so hard he would fly into space: “Who on Earth thought, when they came to the fight / That they would witness the launching of a human satellite?”
虽然大多数拳击手让拳头来说话,克莱却发明了有创意的花花招,包括一首诗,说要用拳头猛打李斯顿,他就会飞入太空:“当他们来到战斗中时,谁想到/他们会亲眼目睹人类卫星的发射? “
Cassius Clay exchanges words with Sonny Liston at the weigh-in before their title fight in Miami Beach, Florida, on February 24, 1964.
卡修斯·克莱(Cassius Clay)在1964年2月24日于佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩进行标题战前,与桑尼·利斯顿(Sonny Liston)在重磅比赛中交换了话语.
In their title fight, Clay dodged Liston’s hardest swings while he hit Liston with quick jabs.
在他们的冠军争夺中,Clay躲过了Liston最难的一击,而他用快打打倒了Liston。
After six rounds of taking punches, Liston gave up.
经过六轮出击后,李斯通放弃.
Cassius Clay became the heavyweight champion of the world.
卡修斯·克莱成为了世界重量级冠军.
But his story was just beginning.
但他的故事才刚刚开始
Soon he would change his name to Muhammad Ali and make that a name history would remember.
不久他改名穆罕默德·阿里并让这个名字成为历史记忆.
Though Cassius Clay stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.
虽然卡修斯·克莱站了6英尺3英寸(1.
9 m) tall and weighed 215 pounds (97.
9米)高并重215磅(97.
5 kg), his blinding speed made it difficult for opponents to land punches against him.
5公斤),他的失明速度使得对手难以登陆对他出拳.
Childhood Ali was born Cassius Clay in 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky.
童年阿里于1942年生于肯塔基州路易斯维尔.
His family had to deal with segregation on a daily basis.
他的家人不得不每天处理隔离问题。
At that time, restaurants and stores in many parts of the South refused to serve African Americans.
当时,南方多地的餐馆和商店拒绝为非裔美国人服务.
Mobs of white people sometimes attacked or even murdered African Americans whom they believed had not shown enough respect toward whites.
白人暴徒有时攻击甚至谋杀了他们认为对白人不够尊重的非裔美国人。
Cassius Clay (right) sits with his younger brother Rudy.
卡修斯·克莱(Cassius Clay (右))与弟弟鲁迪同坐.
Rudy also became a professional boxer when he grew up.
鲁迪长大后也成为了职业拳击手.
When Cassius was twelve, someone stole his bike.
卡修斯12岁时 有人偷了他的自行车
He told the neighborhood police officer, Joe Martin, that he wanted to beat up the thief.
他告诉邻居警察乔·马丁,他想打倒小偷.
Martin suggested he fight in the boxing ring instead.
马丁建议他在拳击场上出战.
Cassius began training with Martin and won his first fight later that year.
卡修斯开始与马丁一起接受训练,并赢得了同年晚些时候他的第一次出战.
At fourteen, he won an amateur boxing tournament.
14岁时他赢得了一场业余拳击锦标赛.
Cassius began training as a boxer at age twelve (left) and by sixteen (right) had become a talented amateur.
卡修斯在12岁(左)开始接受拳击训练,到16岁(右)已经成为一个有才华的业余球员.
Going for the Gold At age seventeen, Clay won several amateur boxing championships.
去取黄金 17岁时,克莱多次获得业余拳击冠军.
The next year, he went to Italy for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
次年去意大利参加1960年罗马奥运会.
Clay had never flown before and was scared to get on the plane.
克莱以前从未飞过飞机,并害怕上飞机.
But he wasn’t scared in the ring, where he won the gold medal.
并赢得了金牌。
After Rome, Clay started fighting for money and not just medals.
罗马后,克莱开始为金钱而战,而不只是奖章.
He began teasing his opponents with rhymes before his fights.
他开始在打斗前用押韵来取笑对手.
Before he fought Jim Robinson, he said, “This guy must be done / I’ll stop him in one.”
在与吉姆·鲁滨逊决斗之前,他说,“这个家伙必须完成/我会一举阻止他。 “
Sure enough, Clay knocked him out in the first round.
当然 Clay在第一回合把他打晕了.
Clay won nineteen fights in a row before beating Liston and winning the title.
克莱在击败利斯顿并赢得冠军之前,连续赢得了19场比赛.
Cassius Clay fights a Polish boxer during the 1960 Summer Olympic Games.
卡修斯·克莱在1960年夏季奥林匹克运动会中出战一名波兰拳击运动员.
About the time he became champ, Clay joined the religion of Islam and took the name of Islam’s prophet.
大约在他成为冠军的时候,克莱加入了伊斯兰教并取了伊斯兰教先知的名字.
He said that the name Clay was given to his family by slave owners.
他说Clay这个名字是奴隶主送给他家人的.
Taking a new name was his way of taking back his identity.
取出新名字是他收回身份的方法
Two leaders of the civil rights movement, Malcolm X (top) and Martin Luther King Jr.
民权运动的两位领导人马尔科姆·X (上)和小马丁·路德·金.
(bottom), both had a deep impact on the young boxer’s thinking.
(从下而上),两者都对年轻的拳击手的思想产生了深刻的影响.
Refusing to Fight In the mid-1960s, the U.
拒绝战斗 20世纪60年代中期,U.
S.
师曰.
military began drafting young men to fight a war in Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia.
军队开始征召年轻人去越南打仗,
Ali refused to be drafted because of his religious beliefs.
阿里因宗教信仰而拒绝应征.
In a stand against racism, he also said he wouldn’t fight for a country that didn’t treat African Americans as equal citizens.
在反对种族主义的立场上,他还说,他不会为一个不把非裔美国人当作平等公民的国家而斗争。
Speaking out made Ali a hero to many people.
说话了 阿里是许多人的英雄.
But the boxing world didn’t want their most famous fighter stirring up trouble.
但拳击界不希望他们最出名的拳手挑起麻烦。
The same day he was arrested for refusing the draft, Ali was stripped of the heavyweight title and banned from boxing.
同日他因拒绝草稿而被捕,阿里被剥去重量级头衔并被禁止出拳.
Instead of fighting, Ali now spoke at colleges about the war and the civil rights movement.
而不是战斗, 阿里现在在大学里谈到战争和民权运动.
Ali speaks with the press on his way into the courthouse in Houston, Texas, on June 20, 1967.
阿里在1967年6月20日进入德克萨斯州休斯敦法院的路上与媒体交谈.
Ali was charged and had to stand trial because of his refusal to be drafted.
阿里因拒绝被征召入伍而被起诉并不得不接受审判.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
The Model for Apollo Creed The 1976 movie Rocky was based on Chuck Wepner, a low- ranked fighter who got to fight Ali for the title in 1975 and came surprisingly close to winning.
阿波罗克里德的模型 1976年的电影"洛奇"取材于一位排名低的战士查克·韦普纳(Chuck Wepner),他于1975年与阿里争夺冠军,令人惊讶地接近取胜.
Rocky’s on-screen opponent, charismatic champion Apollo Creed, was based directly on Ali.
洛基在屏幕上的对手有魅力的冠军阿波罗·克里德直接以阿里为主.
The Comeback After three years, Ali was finally allowed back into the ring, even though his court case was still going on.
回来 过了三年 阿里最终被允许回到了魔戒中,尽管他的法庭案件仍在进行.
He challenged the new heavyweight champ, Joe Frazier, in a match called the “Fight of the Century.”
他在一场名为“世纪之战”的比赛中挑战了新的重量级冠军乔·弗雷泽。 “
For Ali, it was the reverse of the Liston fight.
对阿里来说,这是利斯顿战役的倒数.
His speed was no match for Frazier’s strength.
他的速度与弗雷泽的实力不相匹配.
Frazier knocked Ali down several times.
弗雷泽多次击倒阿里.
The judges awarded the match to Frazier.
评委们将比赛授予了弗雷泽.
It was the first professional fight Ali had ever lost.
这是阿里第一次职业战败.
But three months later, Ali won a more important victory.
但三个月后, 阿里赢得了更重要的胜利.
The Supreme Court ruled that he had the right to refuse the draft because of his religious beliefs.
最高法院裁定他有权以宗教信仰为由拒绝草案.
Two Amazing Fights Three years later, Ali fought Frazier again and won.
两个惊人的战斗 三年后,阿里又与弗雷泽出战并取胜.
But by then Frazier had lost the heavyweight title to George Foreman, a young, powerful new fighter.
但到那时,弗雷泽已经失去了乔治·福尔曼的重量级称号,他是一个年轻而强大的新战士.
Ali challenged Foreman in a fight held in Central Africa called the “Rumble in the Jungle.”
阿里在中非举行的一场名为“丛林中的暴风雨”的战斗中挑战了福尔曼。 “
Ali got Foreman to tire himself out early, making it easier for Ali to knock him down.
阿里让福尔曼很早就把自己累坏了,使得阿里更容易地打倒他.
Muhammad Ali was the champ again.
穆罕默德·阿里再次成为冠军.
Ali performs the “rope-a-dope” maneuver during his fight with George Foreman in Zaire in 1974.
Ali在1974年与George Foreman在扎伊尔的战斗中,进行了“罗佩-a-dope”演习。
The following year, Frazier tried to win the title back from Ali in a fight held in the Philippines called the “Thrilla in Manila.”
次年,弗雷泽试图从阿里手中取回头衔,在菲律宾举行的一场叫作"马尼拉的Thrilla"的战斗中. “
It was a tough fight that Ali called “the closest I’ve come to death.”
阿里称之为“我最亲近的死亡”。 “
In the fourteenth round, Ali used the last of his strength and threw everything he had at Frazier.
在第十四轮中,阿里用他最后的实力将他拥有的一切投给弗雷泽.
Frazier gave up.
弗雷泽放弃了
Both men were so beaten up that Ali later said, “We went to Manila as champions, and we came back as old men.”
两人被打得一团糟,阿里后来说道:“我们作为冠军去了马尼拉,我们作为老人回来了。”
Ali punches Joe Frazier in the head during the seventh round of their rematch in Manila, Philippines, in 1975.
阿里于1975年在菲律宾马尼拉举行的第七轮重赛中将乔·弗雷泽打入头部.
Ali kept his title for another two and a half years before he lost it to Leon Spinks, but he fought Spinks again a few months later and won.
阿里在输给莱昂·斯平克之前又保住了两年半的头衔,但几个月后他再次与斯平克出战并取胜.
He’s still the only boxer to win the heavyweight crown three times.
他仍是唯一一次夺得重量级拳王三连冠的拳手.
But in his next fight, Ali lost the title for good to Larry Holmes.
但是在他的下一次战斗中, 阿里永远失去头衔给拉里·福尔摩斯.
At thirty-eight, his long career in the ring came to an end.
三十八分,他在环中的长期生涯结束.
Ali won his rematch against Leon Spinks in 1978 in a bout that lasted fifteen rounds.
阿里在1978年对阵莱昂·斯平克斯的比赛中以15个回合的成绩取胜.
Retired but Still Fighting After retiring from boxing, Ali traveled the world speaking up for human rights.
退休了,但仍在战斗 阿里在从拳击退休后,游历了全世界,为人权大声疾呼.
In 1984, he learned he had Parkinson’s disease.
1984年,他得知自己得了帕金森氏症.
This disease makes it hard for the brain to control the muscles.
这种疾病使得大脑难以控制肌肉.
But in 1996, he returned to the Olympic Games to light the Olympic flame in Atlanta.
但在1996年他又重返了奥运会以点燃亚特兰大奥运会的火焰.
Ali struggled to lift the torch, but as the crowd cheered he held the flame aloft, a fighter to the end.
阿里奋力举起火炬,但随着人群的欢呼,他握住火焰高地,是一名战斗到底.
In 2016, Muhammad Ali died at age seventy-four.
2016年,穆罕默德·阿里逝世,享年74岁.
President Obama praised his bravery, saying “ Ali stood his ground.
奥巴马总统赞扬他的勇敢,他说“阿里站稳了脚跟。
And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognize today.”
他的胜利帮助我们适应了我们今天认识的美国。 “
Ali wasn’t just the greatest boxer who ever lived—he also helped change his country by fighting for what he believed in.
Ali不仅仅是最伟大的拳击手,
Ali holds the torch before lighting the Olympic Flame at the opening ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996.
Ali在1996年乔治亚州亚特兰大开幕仪式上点燃奥运会火焰前手持火把.
Glossary amateur (adj.)
业余词汇(adj.)
not professional; done as a hobby (p.
不专业;作为爱好(p.
7) banned (v.)
7)被禁(五.
officially forbade someone from doing something; prohibited (p.
官方禁止某人做某事;禁止(p.
10) civil rights (n.)
10) 公民权利 (n.
legal, social, and economic rights that guarantee freedom and equality for all citizens (p.
保障所有公民自由和平等的法律、社会和经济权利(第3页)。
10) drafting (v.)
10) 起草(五.
ordering someone into military service, especially during wartime (p.
命令某人服兵役,特别是在战时(p.
10) human rights (n.)
10) 人权(n.)
Islam (n.)
伊斯兰教(n.)
the monotheistic faith of Muslims, based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad (p.
根据先知穆罕默德(p.
9) racism (n.)
9) 种族主义(n.)
the belief that one race is better than another; unequal treatment based on such a belief (p.
认为一个种族比另一个种族更好; 基于这种信仰的不平等待遇(p.
10) segregation (n.)
10) 隔离(n.)
Supreme Court (n.)
最高法院(不详)