偶像勵志英語演講 59:執(zhí)著于你的夢想(3)

[00:00.29]I started way back as a weightlifter. 我出道時是個舉重運動員。 [00:04.40]I always liked the idea of lifting weights and being a bodybuilder. 我一直都喜歡舉重運動，渴望能成為一名健美運動員。 [00:08.22]From the first moment when I gripped a barbell and held it around the bar and lifted the steel above my head, 自從第一次抓緊杠鈴、將其高高舉過頭頂之際， [00:17.42]I felt this exhilaration, 我就為此感到異常興奮。 [00:20.48]and I knew then that this is something that I'm going to do; that I was in love with that, and this is going to be something that I'm going to do. 那時我知道，我迷上了這項運動，這將是我要做的事情， [00:28.20]I'm going to pursue the sport of weightlifting and bodybuilding. 我將從事舉重和健美運動。 [00:32.39]Now, I remember the first real workout that I had. 我還記得最初那次真正的訓練。 [00:37.20]It was eight miles away from my home village in Austria there was a gymnasium, and I rode to that gymnasium with a bicycle. 當時我騎著自行車前往一家健身房，那兒離我在奧地利一個小村莊里的家有八英里之遙。 [00:46.17]And there I trained for half an hour, 在那里我訓練了半個鐘頭， [00:49.01]because they said that after half an hour you should stop because otherwise your body will get really sore. 因為他們告訴我，訓練必須半小時一停，否則你會全身酸痛。 [00:54.56]But after half an hour I looked at my body, and nothing had happened. 但半小時之后，我看看自己的身體，一點變化也沒有! [01:00.24]So I said, "I'd better work out for another half hour." 于是我說，“最好再練半小時吧?！? [01:03.33]So I lifted some more. 就又多舉了幾下。 [01:04.50]My strength didn't improve, I didn't see the muscles pop out or anything like that, 可是我的力氣并未因此增強，也不見肌肉鼓起來。 [01:09.19]so I trained for another half an hour. 然后我又練了半小時， [01:11.57]And then after another half hour I trained another half hour, 再加半小時…… [01:15.40]and all together I trained two and a half hours. 結果總共練了兩個半小時。 [01:19.03]Well, let me tell you something. 讓我告訴你們， [01:20.04]After two and a half hours--I left the gymnasium, even though they told me that I shouldn't train that much or I would get really sore-- 盡管他們告訴我不能練那么久，否則會渾身酸痛，但我訓練了兩個半小時， [01:26.57]I rode my bicycle home. 然后我離開健身房騎車回家。 [01:28.13]And after the first mile I got numb, and I couldn't feel anymore the handle of the bicycle, 剛走一英里，我頓覺四肢麻木，連車把都感覺不到了， [01:34.28]and I fell off the bike and I fell into the ditch on the side of the road. 結果整個人從車上摔下來，掉進了路邊的水溝里。 [01:39.09]So I got up again and I tried it again. 我站起來，又試了一次， [01:41.36]Another few yards, I felt off the bicycle again. 但沒騎多遠又摔了下來。 [01:44.35]And I tried it three, four more times, and I just couldn't ride my bicycle 接下來我又試了三四次，但依舊不行， [01:48.07]because my body was so numb and my legs felt like noodles. 因為我全身異常酸麻，感覺腿就像面條一樣軟弱無力。

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