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。
7 Muhammad Ali.
7 (英语). Muhammad Ali.
8 Refusing to Fight.
8,拒绝参战.
9 The Comeback.
九回向报.
11 Two Amazing Fights.
11 二场惊人的战斗.
13 Retired but Still Fighting.
13 退休但仍在战斗。
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 A New Champion In 1964, the heavyweight boxing champ was Sonny Liston.
16个新冠军 1964年,重量级拳击冠军是桑尼·利斯顿.
He was so tough that some boxers were afraid to face him.
他如此顽强,以至于一些拳击手不敢面对他.
No one expected his latest challenger, Cassius Clay, to win.
没有人指望他最新的挑战者卡修斯·克莱获胜.
While most boxers stood still and hit hard, Clay moved fast and threw quick punches.
虽然大多数拳击手站住并猛烈地打出一拳,但克莱动作快并投出快拳.
Before the fight, Clay wrote 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?”
在打斗之前,克莱写了一首诗,说要狠狠地打李斯顿,他会飞入太空:“地球上谁想到,当他们来到打斗的时候,/他们会见证一颗人造卫星的发射? “
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.
Clay’s insults made Liston too angry to control himself in the ring.
Clay的侮辱让Liston太愤怒,无法控制自己在戒指上.
Clay’s nimble style let him dodge Liston’s hardest swings while Clay wore him down with quick jabs.
Clay的灵活风格让他避开了Liston最难的秋千,
After six rounds, Liston called it quits.
6轮后,李斯通称退出.
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 was middle class, but the Clays had to deal with segregation in their daily lives.
他的家庭是中产阶级,但克莱人不得不在日常生活中处理隔离问题.
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。
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 that Cassius fight in the boxing ring instead.
马丁建议由卡修斯在拳击圈出战取而代之.
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 the beginner group in the Golden Gloves.
14岁时入选了"金手套"的初选组.
It was the country’s best-known amateur boxing tournament.
这是该国最出名的业余拳击锦标赛.
Cassius’s school sponsored boxing matches, and his principal started calling him the “next heavyweight champion of the world”!
卡修斯的学校赞助了拳击比赛,他的校长开始称他为"世界下一个重量级冠军"!
Cassius Clay started training as a boxer at age twelve.
卡修斯·克莱从12岁开始接受拳击训练.
Going for the Gold Clay was quickly becoming the best amateur boxer in America.
寻找金色克力 很快成为美国最好的业余拳击手
At age seventeen, he won the Golden Gloves championship and the Amateur Athletic Union’s national title.
17岁时,他获得了"金手套"冠军和业余运动会全国称号.
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.
The eighteen-year-old had never flown before and was so scared that he brought a parachute!
18岁的孩子以前从未飞过 很害怕,他带了个降落伞!
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.
As he won fight after fight, he began taunting his opponents with rhymes.
随着他战斗后赢得了战斗,他开始用押韵来嘲弄对手.
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.
Two years earlier, Clay had watched civil rights leader Malcolm X speak about Islam and had come away impressed.
两年前,克莱曾观看民权领袖马尔科姆·十世谈到伊斯兰教并留下了深刻的印象.
The two men became friends, with Malcolm acting as a mentor to Clay.
两人成为了朋友,由马尔科姆出任克莱的导师.
By the time Clay claimed the heavyweight championship, his name was the most famous one in boxing.
到了克蕾声称获得重量级冠军时,他的名字是拳击界最出名的.
But it wasn’t a name he wanted to be called anymore.
但这个名字不是他想要的。
Clay joined the religion of Islam and took the name of Islam’s prophet.
克莱加入了伊斯兰教,取了伊斯兰教先知的名字.
He argued that the name Clay was given to his family by slave owners.
他辩称Clay这个名字是奴隶主送给他家人的.
Taking a new name was his way of countering part of that ugly history.
取个新名字是他对抗丑恶历史的一部分的方法。
Ali’s mother was a Baptist, and he said he owed his moral upbringing to her.
Ali的母亲是一位浸信会信徒,他说他应该对她进行道德教育。
“Her God is still God; I just call him by a different name,” he explained.
他解释说,“她所崇拜的,仍是真主;我只叫他别名”。
Two leaders of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.
民权运动的两位领导人,小马丁·路德·金.
(left) and Malcolm X (right), both had a deep impact on the young boxer’s thinking.
(左)和马尔科姆·X(右)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 United States was fighting a war in Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia.
拒绝战斗 1960年代中期,美国在越南,东南亚一地打出战争.
The army started drafting young men to fight.
军队开始征召年轻人参战.
But Ali refused to join the army when he was called.
但阿里被召去后拒绝参军.
War was against the teachings of his new religion.
战争违背了他新宗教的教义.
He also argued that he shouldn’t fight for a country that didn’t treat him as an equal citizen.
他也认为他不应该为一个不把他当作平等公民的国家而斗争。
Having experienced racism his whole life, Ali was ready to take a stand against it.
阿里一生经历种族主义后,准备采取反对立场.
He asked reporters, “Why should they ask me to.
他问记者,“他们为什么要要求我这样做。
drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?”
在路易斯维尔的所谓黑人被像狗一样对待的时候 向棕色人种投放炸弹和子弹? “
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.
Speaking out against both war and racism in America made Ali a hero to many people.
在美国反对战争和种族主义 阿里是许多人的英雄.
But the boxing world didn’t want its most famous fighter stirring up trouble.
但拳击界并不想让最出名的拳手惹出麻烦。
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.
During his time away from boxing, Ali spoke at colleges about the war and the civil rights movement.
在远离拳击期间,阿里在高校讲了战争和民权运动.
He became as well known for his moral arguments as he was for boxing.
他的道德辩词和拳击一样出名.
Giving up his career for his conscience won him respect, even from some people who disagreed with him.
为了良心放弃事业赢得了对他的尊重,甚至从一些不同意他的人那里赢得了尊重.
Muhammad Ali gives a speech at an anti-war rally at the University of Chicago on May 10, 1967.
默罕默德(签名) 阿里于1967年5月10日在芝加哥大学的反战集会上发表演讲.
The Comeback After three years, Ali’s court case for refusing the draft was still going on.
回来 过了三年 Ali因拒绝草案而提出的法庭诉讼仍在进行。
In another case, a judge ruled that Ali had to be allowed back into the ring.
在另一起案件中,一名法官裁定,必须允许阿里重返魔戒.
After two warm-up fights, he challenged the new heavyweight champ, Joe Frazier, a tough fighter who, like Ali, had never lost a match.
经过两次热身相争后,他挑战了新的重量级冠军乔·弗雷泽(Joe Frazier),他是一个与阿里一样从未输过比赛的强硬战士.
Ali’s challenge for the title was called the “Fight of the Century.”
阿里对这个头衔的挑战被称为"世纪之战". “
The fight lived up to its name.
斗活了它的名字。
But for Ali, it was the reverse of the Liston fight.
但对于阿里来说,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.
Ali crouches on the canvas after slipping in the eleventh round during his comeback fight against Joe Frazier in 1971.
阿里在1971年对乔·弗雷泽的回击中以第11轮倒下后蹲入了画布上.
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.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Three months after the loss, Ali won a more important victory.
失事后三个月,阿里获得了更重要的胜利.
The Supreme Court ruled that he had the right to refuse the draft as a conscientious objector.
最高法院裁定,他有权拒绝以依良心拒服兵役者的身份提交草案。
The court said Ali deserved to have his beliefs respected like other Americans who objected to war for religious reasons.
法庭说阿里应该像其他出于宗教原因反对战争的美国人一样,让自己的信仰得到尊重.
Ali’s moral stand inspired Americans from all walks of life to stand up for their beliefs as well.
阿里的道德立场激励了来自各行各业的美国人也支持他们的信仰。
Two Amazing Fights Ali continued fighting for three years before he got to fight Frazier again.
两个惊人的战斗 阿里在再次与弗雷泽战斗前继续了三年.
He won, but by then Frazier was no longer champ.
他赢了 但那时弗雷泽不再是冠军了
He had lost the heavyweight title to George Foreman, a young, powerful new fighter.
他丧失了对乔治·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 for the title in Zaire (now the Congo) in a fight called the “Rumble in the Jungle.”
Ali在一场名为“丛林中的暴风雨”的战斗中挑战Foreman在扎伊尔(现为刚果)的头衔。 “
Ali tried a new strategy—leaning against the ropes and blocking while Foreman tired himself out punching.
Ali尝试了新的策略,
Ali called this move the “rope-a-dope.”
Ali称此举为“rope-a-dope”。 “
Foreman fell into the trap and tired himself out, making it easier for Ali to knock him down.
福尔曼倒入陷阱并疲劳自己出局,使阿里更容易地击倒他.
Muhammad Ali was the champ again.
穆罕默德·阿里再次成为冠军.
Ali leans back against the ropes to perform 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,靠在绳子上,进行“rope-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 described as “the closest I’ve come to death.”
Ali形容这是一场艰难的战斗, “
Frazier said, “I hit him with punches that would have knocked a building down.”
Frazier说,“我用拳头打他,会打倒一栋建筑。 “
In the fourteenth round, Ali threw everything he had at Frazier.
第十四轮,阿里将他拥有的一切投给弗雷泽.
He used the last of his strength to hit him with a storm of punches.
他用他最后的力量用一阵出击来打他.
Frazier threw in the towel.
弗雷泽扔入了毛巾.
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 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, becoming the only boxer to win the heavyweight crown three times.
阿里在输给莱昂·斯平克斯之前又保持了两年半的头衔,但他几个月后又与斯平克斯出战并取胜,成为唯一一个三次夺得重量级拳王.
Ali didn’t fight again for two years, and when he did, he lost the title for good to Larry Holmes.
阿里两年来没有再出战,当他出战时,他永远失去了对拉里·福尔摩斯的称号.
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 was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
1984年被诊断为帕金森氏症.
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.
As his health declined, it became difficult for Ali to speak.
随着他的健康下降,阿里变得很难说话.
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 clearly struggled to lift the torch, but as the crowd cheered he held the flame aloft, a fighter to the end.
阿里显然为起起火炬而挣扎,但随着人群的欢呼,他握住火焰高地,是一名战士到底.
In 2016, Muhammad Ali died at age seventy-four.
2016年,穆罕默德·阿里逝世,享年74岁.
The once controversial champ had become universally beloved.
曾经引起争议的冠军 已经成为了全世界所喜爱的
President Obama praised his courage, saying “ Ali stood his ground.
奥巴马总统赞扬他的勇气,他说“阿里站了起来。
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 up the torch before lighting the Olympic Flame at the opening ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996.
阿里在1996年乔治亚州亚特兰大开幕仪式上点燃奥运会火焰前举起火炬.
Glossary amateur (adj.)
业余词汇(adj.)
not professional; done as a hobby (p.
不专业;作为爱好(p.
6) banned (v.)
6)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)。
8) conscience (n.)
8) 良心 (n.
an inner sense of right and wrong (p.
内在的对错感(p.
10) conscientious objector (n.)
10) 依良心拒服兵役者(不详)
(n.)
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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.
8) racism (n.)
8) 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.
9) segregation (n.)
9) 隔离(n.)
a policy of separating groups of people from one another, often on the basis of race (p.
通常基于种族(p.
6) Supreme Court (n.)
6) 最高法院(不详)