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, 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.
Fans thought Clay was all talk, but his insults were part of a larger strategy to enrage Liston so that he would make mistakes in the ring.
粉丝认为 克莱虽然都是空谈,但他的侮辱是更大的策略的一部分来激怒利斯顿,让他在戒指上犯错误.
Clay’s agile style let him dodge Liston’s hardest swings while Clay wore him down with quick jabs.
Clay的敏捷风格让他避开了Liston最难的秋千,
After six rounds of taking punch after punch, Liston called it quits.
经过六轮出拳后接拳,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,他就会改名穆罕默德·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 the crushing realities of segregation on a daily basis.
他的家族是中产阶级,但克莱家族不得不每天面对隔离的压抑现实.
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.
If they were allowed into movie theaters at all, African American people had to sit in the balcony.
如果他们被允许进入电影院,非裔美国人不得不坐在阳台上.
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。
A more personal hardship set Cassius on the path to boxing.
更个人的困难使卡修斯走上了拳击之路.
When he was twelve, someone stole his bike.
他12岁时 有人偷了他的自行车
Cassius told the neighborhood police officer, Joe Martin, that he wanted to beat up the thief.
卡修斯告诉邻里警察乔·马丁,他想打出小偷来.
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 the novice category in the Golden Gloves, the country’s best-known amateur boxing tournament.
14岁时,他赢得了该国最出名的业余拳击锦标赛"金手套"中的新手类别.
Cassius’s school sponsored boxing matches, and he was so confident in the ring that his principal started introducing him as “the next heavyweight champion of the world”!
卡西乌斯的学校赞助了拳击比赛,他非常自信地打出这个戒指,以至于他的校长开始介绍他成为"世界下一个重量级冠军"!
Cassius Clay began boxing at age twelve.
卡修斯·克莱12岁开始拳击.
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 had his first fight in another country—the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Italy.
次年他又在另一个国家出战了第一次——1960年意大利罗马奥运会.
The eighteen-year- old had never flown before and was so scared that he brought a parachute!
十八岁的人以前从未飞过 很害怕,他带了降落伞!
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 as he had seen pro wrestlers do.
由于他在战斗后赢得了战斗,他开始像他所看到的亲摔跤手那样嘲弄对手.
He would make up rhymes boasting of victory.
他会编出赞美胜利的韵律
When he fought Jim Robinson, he predicted, “This guy must be done / I’ll stop him in one,” and sure enough, Clay knocked out Robinson ninety seconds into the first round.
当他与吉姆·罗宾逊决斗时,他预言道,“这个家伙必须完成/我会阻止他,”而且很确定,克莱在第一轮比赛中击倒了罗宾逊90秒.
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 became friends, with Malcolm acting as a mentor to Clay as he explored a new faith and embraced the civil rights movement.
二人成为了朋友,马尔科姆在克莱探索新信仰并拥护民权运动时担任克莱的导师.
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。
After fighting Liston, Clay converted to the religion of Islam and took the name Muhammad Ali in honor of Islam’s prophet.
在与利斯通战斗后,克莱皈依了伊斯兰教并取了穆罕默德·阿里这个名字来纪念伊斯兰教的先知.
He argued that the name Clay was given to his ancestors by slave owners; taking a new name was his way of countering part of that ugly legacy.
他辩称Clay这个名字是奴隶主给他的祖先取的;取出一个新名字是他对抗这丑陋遗产的一部分的方法.
Ali’s mother was a devout Baptist, and he always credited her with his moral upbringing.
阿里的母亲是一位虔诚的浸信会信徒,他总是将他的道德教养归功于她.
“Her God is still God; I just call him by a different name,” Ali said.
Ali说,“她所崇拜的,仍是真主;我只叫他另一个名字。”
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 began drafting young men to fight in a war in Vietnam, a country in Asia.
拒绝战斗 20世纪60年代中期,美国开始征召年轻人参加一场位于亚洲的越南战争.
When Ali’s name was called in the draft, he refused to comply, although he knew that was against the law.
Ali的名字在草案中被叫来时,他拒绝遵守,尽管他知道这是违法的。
He objected to fighting on religious grounds, saying that war was against the teachings of his new religion.
他反对以宗教为理由进行战斗,说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 the war in Vietnam and racism in America made Ali a hero to many who thought both were morally wrong.
反对越南战争和美国种族主义 阿里是许多人的英雄 他们认为两者在道德上都是错误的
But the boxing establishment didn’t want its most famous fighter stirring up controversy.
但拳击机构不希望其最出名的拳手引发争议。
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 eloquent moral arguments as he was for boxing.
他以雄辩的道德论点而出名,如同拳击一样.
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 Ali continued to defend his refusal to be drafted as the case moved through higher courts.
随着案件通过高等法院审理,Comeback Ali继续为其拒绝起草辩护。
After three years, a judge ruled that the boxing establishment had to let Ali back into the ring, though his Supreme Court case was not yet settled.
三年后,一名法官裁定拳击机构必须让阿里重返魔戒,尽管他的最高法院案件尚未解决.
After two warm-up fights, he challenged the new heavyweight champ, Joe Frazier, a tough, relentless fighter who had never lost a match.
在两次取暖后,他挑战了新的重量级冠军乔·弗雷泽(Joe Frazier),他是一个从没有输过比赛的坚强而无情的战士.
Ali’s challenge for the title was hyped as the “Fight of the Century.”
阿里对标题的挑战被赞为"世纪之战". “
The fight lived up to the hype.
争相活得活得像胡言乱语
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 rattled Ali with his strong left hook, knocking him down several times.
弗雷泽被惊动了 阿里用他强壮的左钩打倒他几次.
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.
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。
Like other Americans who objected to fighting in war for religious reasons, Ali deserved to have his beliefs respected.
像其他出于宗教原因反对在战争中作战的美国人一样,阿里理应让自己的信仰得到尊重.
His moral stance inspired Americans from all walks of life to stand up for their beliefs as well.
他的道德立场也激励了来自各行各业的美国人为自己的信仰而站出来.
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?
Two Amazing Fights Ali continued fighting for three years, winning all but one bout, until he got to fight Frazier again.
两个惊人的战斗 阿里继续战斗了3年,除了1个回合之外都赢了,直到他再次与弗雷泽出战.
He won, but by that point Frazier had lost the heavyweight title to George Foreman, a young, powerful new fighter.
他赢了,但到那时弗雷泽已经失去了对乔治·福尔曼(George Foreman)的重量级称号,他是一位年轻而强大的新战士.
Like Ali, Foreman had won an Olympic gold medal and become champion without losing a fight.
和阿里一样,福尔曼也曾获得一面奥运会金牌并成为冠军而未出战.
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。 “
Some consider it the greatest sporting event of the twentieth century.
有人认为这是二十世纪最伟大的体育活动。
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 dubbed this move the “rope-a- dope.”
Ali将此称为“大麻”。 “
He enraged Foreman by teasing him: “They told me you could punch, George!”
他激怒了福尔曼, “他们告诉我你可以打,乔治!”
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. “
Ali employed the rope-a-dope again, but this time Frazier wore him down.
阿里又用绳子了 但这次弗雷泽把他拖倒了
It was a brutal fight that Ali described as “the closest I’ve come to death.”
这是一场残酷的战斗, “
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, using the last of his strength to hit him with a barrage of punches.
在第十四轮中,阿里将他拥有的一切投给弗雷泽,用他最后的实力用一连串出击打他.
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.
三八出道后,他在环球圈的漫长生涯宣告结束.
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, a disease that makes it hard for the brain to control the muscles.
1984年被诊断出有帕金森氏症,这种疾病使得大脑难以控制肌肉.
As his health declined, it became difficult for the usually eloquent Ali to speak.
由于他的健康状况下降,通常雄辩的阿里很难说话。
But in 1996, he returned to the Olympic Games, this time to light the Olympic flame in Atlanta.
但在1996年他又重返了奥运会,这次是为了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 activism, saying “ Ali stood his ground.
奥巴马总统赞扬了他的积极性,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 transform his country by fighting for what he believed in.
Ali不仅仅是最伟大的拳击手,
As Ali once said, “I am America.
正如阿里曾经说过的:“我是美国。
I am the part you won’t recognize.
我才是你认不出的人。
But get used to me—black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own.
但要习惯我 黑人 自信 傲慢 我的名字 不是你的 宗教 不是你的
Get used to me.”
习惯我吧 “
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 activism (n.)
词汇活动(n.)
the work of or belief in bringing about social or political change (p.
实现社会或政治变革的工作或信念(p.
15) civil rights (n.)
15) 公民权利(n.)
objector (n.)
反对者 (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.)
Supreme Court (n.)
最高法院(不详)