英語美文名人勵志故事80:邁克爾·喬丹退役做演說的故事
80. Michael Jordan's Retired Speech
80. 邁克爾·喬丹退役演說
I am here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball. It won't be another announcement to baseball or anything to that nature.
我在這里宣布從籃球場上退役，而且這次退役后不會再去從事棒球或其他類似的運動。
Mentally, I'm exhausted; I don't feel I have a challenge. Physically, I feel great. The last time in 1993 I had other agendas. I felt that I wanted to play baseball and I felt that at my age, it was a good opportunity and time to do it. And with the death of my father, and I was basically trying to deal with that.
由于精神上很疲憊，我感到自己非常蛙主恥戰(zhàn)力，體力倒還不錯。1993年那次退役時我有其他計劃：想打棒球，我這個年紀正是從事樺球事業(yè)的極佳時機而且父親剛好去世了，我只想盡力去面對這一切。
Actually I talked to very last year once the season ended and I told Jerry at that time, mentally, I was a little exhausted. I didn't know if I would play next year. I wanted to put him on awareness so that he could possibly prepare going into next season. And very, once we had our conversation, wanted me to take time as I did in 93 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the final decision.
事實上，去年賽季剛結束時，我和在里談過一次。我告訴他我精神上有些疲憊，不知道下一年還能不能打我想讓他幸識到這一點，以便為下一事豐做準備。杰里——有一次我們談過這個問題——讓我要像93年那樣，好好考慮，以使做出明智的決定，因為這將是最后的決定。
I retired the first time when Phil Jackson was the coach. And I think that even with Phil being the coach I would have had a tough time , mentally finding the challenge for myself. I though he can somehow present challenges for me. I don't know if he could have presented the challenge for me to continue on to this season. Even though middle way of this season I wanted to continue to play a couple more years, but at the end of this season I was mentally drained and tired. 50 I can't say that he would have restored that.
第一次退役時菲爾.杰克遜是教練。但我覺得即使本賽季他還擔任教練，我也會很困難，內心里 ，我已感到了挑戰(zhàn)。當然克論如何，他都會給我一些應對方潔的我不知道他是否還有辦法使我打完這一賽季。在本賽季中間我還想著再打幾年呢，但當賽季結束時，我卻感覺精神枯竭，疲憊。因此我確實不能說他會使我恢復精力。
I will support the Chicago Bulls. I think the game itself is a lot bigger than Michael Jordan. I've been given an opportunity by people before me, to name a few, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Doctor J, Eljohn Baylor Jerry West. These guys played the game way before Michael Jordan was born and Michael Jordan came on the heels of all that activity. Mr. Stern and what he's done for the league, gave me an opportunity to play the game of basketball I played it to the best I could play it, I tried to enhance the game itself. I've tried to be the best basketball player that I could be.
我將支持芝加哥公牛隊，我認為比賽本身比邁克爾.喬丹重要得多。我的很多機會都是籃球前輩們給的。我這里指出一些：里姆·阿卡杜·賈巴爾，J博士,伊利約翰 ·貝勒，杰里 ·韋斯特這些人早在邁克爾.喬丹出生前就活躍在賽場了。邁克爾.喬丹只不過是繼承了他們的傳統(tǒng)。斯特恩先生及其為聯盟做出的貢獻給了我打藍球的機會。找已盡我最大能力打球，我也努力拉動比賽本身的發(fā)展。我一直在努力，盡我所能成為最好的球員。
注釋：
retirement ：n. 退休，退役
例句：The proportion of the population who are over retirement age has grown tremendously in the past few years.
超過退休年齡的人口的比例在過去幾年中已急劇增長。
exhausted：adj. 疲憊的;耗盡的
例句：She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
她太疲憊和憂傷了，不想談論那場悲劇。
challenge ：n. 挑戰(zhàn);懷疑
例句：The new government's first challenge is the economy.
新政府面臨的第一項挑戰(zhàn)是經濟。
enhance：vt. 提高;加強;增加
例句：The White House is eager to protect and enhance that reputation.
白宮急于保護并提高那聲望。
deal with：處理;涉及;
例句：I'll deal with the children later.
孩子們的事以后由我去處理。
