CRISTIANO RONALDO:RISE TO 1）PROMINENCE

⊙ By Guillem Balague

翻譯：BillyBudd

2017年國際足聯(lián)頒獎盛典隆重召開，克·羅納爾多（C羅）眾望所歸，榮獲年度世界足球先生獎項(xiàng)，這已是他第二年蟬聯(lián)該獎，也是他第五次被評為世界足球先生。如今，無人不艷羨他名利雙收，但沒有誰的財(cái)富是從天上掉下來的，克·羅納爾多也是經(jīng)歷了一番辛苦播種，才獲得了今日成果——他年少離家，一個人在異鄉(xiāng)咬牙訓(xùn)練。這世上有天賦的人并不少，但只有在一路艱苦中堅(jiān)持下來的人，才會找到出頭天。

On the 12th of

August, 2003, Manchester United

2）signed a3）relatively4）unknown18-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo for just over ￡12 million.Ronaldo was going to become one of the best players the game has ever seen. But his rise to prominence was far from easy.

In 1996, having been offered a trial by Sporting Lisbon, Cristiano Ronaldo arrived in the Portuguese capital with a chance to achieve his dreams. It was a5）dauntingtask for an 11-year-old, he would have to grow up quickly. Having signed with Sporting,Ronaldo would now have to adapt to life away from home.

Cristiano:My parents…to leave a kid with[sic] 11 is a big thing. I cried every day to [sic]miss my family. My father said, “If this is what you want. Go try and let’s see what’s gonna happen.” It’s very difficult, you know.Leonel Pontes（Ex-Coach）: He never showed us his problems. He was a strong kid, because he wanted to play football, he wanted to train, he wanted to practice. And he…h(huán)e spoke everyday with his mother,and his mother spoke with me. And we…we tried to speak with him, to show him the way, to show him that…life is not easy sometimes, and we must make

the effort every

days [sic] to…to change and

to…to focus in [sic] what we want. And

1） prominence ['pr?m?n?ns] n. 著名，卓越

2） sign [sa?n] v. 簽約

3） relatively ['rel?t?vl?] adv. 相對地

4） unknown [??n'n??n] adj. 默默無聞的，不為人知的

5） daunting ['d??nt??] adj. 使人畏縮的

6） jealous ['d?el?s] adj. 嫉妒的sometimes he cried, not in front of us, but his mother said a lot of time [sic], “He’s crying, he’s crying.” I’m…I’m not seeing

聽力難度葡式發(fā)音 適合泛聽語速：130詞/分鐘that, I never see that.

José Semedo（Friend）: The boy from Madeira,the first training he did, we never see something like this before. He was so much better than everybody. So, so much better. It was impossible to be6）jealous of him, because you are jealous, he keeps7）scoring three goals. He don’t [sic] want to lose. He wants to win.

Cristiano: Winning—that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that. I always say it doesn’t matter if you play good or if you play bad. Most important is to win. The people memorize in 10 years or in 20 years who wins.

7） score [sk??（r）] v. （比賽中）得分，進(jìn)球

8） Armani 阿瑪尼，世界知名奢侈品牌，1975年由時尚設(shè)計(jì)大師喬治·阿瑪尼（Giorgio Armani）創(chuàng)立于意大利米蘭，他以使用新型面料及優(yōu)良的制作而聞名。

9） sacrifice ['s?kr?fa?s] v. 舍棄，犧牲

10） dedication [?ded?'ke??n] n. 獻(xiàn)身，奉獻(xiàn)

Leonel:I think the personality of him changed everything and showed the difference between him and the others. He liked to play,he had a passion to…to work. And I think it’s the difference, because some players live with some skills but don’t work hard to improve,because they had…they think that it’s…it’s enough, and for Ronaldo, it’s not enough.

Cristiano: We suffer. People now thinking that, “Ah, they have8）Armani,they have cars,they have everything.” But they didn’t know that we suffered to achieve that. I have what I have now because I am [sic]9）sacrificeda lot,10）dedication,hard work all the time,and belief.

Carlos Freitas（Ex-Director of Football）: At that time, he lived near the stadium with the other boys coming out of Lisbon. And during the night, he was going to the gym, training alone, and the security people have to say to him, “Listen, go to sleep.” He had an aim,he had a focus—to be the best in the world since he was a kid. He was totally different from the other boys, because he can decide a game alone.

Cristiano: Football is so fast and the things are coming so fast that people don’t think about the present. Present is the most important in everything in the [sic] life. Future’s gonna come. Present? It’s now. Let’s enjoy now. For me, every year, it’s a new challenge. I don’t care if last year I scored 100 goals. This year, I have to be the same.

◆ Manchester United 曼聯(lián)：位于英國英格

蘭曼徹斯特郡的曼徹斯特市，現(xiàn)為英格蘭足球超級聯(lián)賽俱樂部。曼聯(lián)是英格蘭足球史上最為成功的俱樂部之一，也是歐洲乃至世界最具影響力、最成功的球隊(duì)之一，隊(duì)內(nèi)明星輩出，如大衛(wèi)·貝克漢姆（David Beckham）、瑞恩·吉格斯（Ryan Giggs）、加里·內(nèi)維爾（Gary Neville）等。

◆ Sporting Lisbon 里斯本競技：也稱葡萄牙體育俱樂部，但由于歷史原因，在葡萄牙之外，人們習(xí)慣稱其為“里斯本競技”。里斯本競技位于葡萄牙首都里斯本，擁有葡萄牙乃至歐洲最優(yōu)秀的青少年訓(xùn)練體系，培養(yǎng)了包括菲戈（Luís Figo）及克·羅納爾多等優(yōu)秀球星。

作文素材常積累：克·羅納爾多——There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It’s all about trying to be the best. 克·羅納爾多出生在葡萄牙的馬德拉島。要成為一名職業(yè)球員，代價并不低。他早早地離開了父母的庇護(hù)，獨(dú)自一人前往繁華首都接受訓(xùn)練；幸而他一貫專注，既然選擇了上路，目的地就該定在最高的山峰。光做夢有什么意思，重要的是要朝著最高峰踏踏實(shí)實(shí)地努力。

It was impossible to be jealous of him, because you are jealous, he keeps scoring three goals.

“繼續(xù)做某事”可以用keep doing sth.來表達(dá)，而keep on doing sth.也有同樣的意思。但兩者的意義存在些微不同：keep doing sth.強(qiáng)調(diào)動作的連續(xù)不斷，一般不與表示瞬間動作的動詞（如buy、die、come等）連用；而keep on doing sth.強(qiáng)調(diào)反復(fù)性和決心，既可接瞬間性動詞（表示反復(fù)），又可接延續(xù)性動詞（如know、walk、read等）。如：

● We must keep going forward. （我們必須不斷前進(jìn)。）

● Mr. Wang kept on explaining until the students understood. （王老師反復(fù)解釋，直到學(xué)生們聽懂了為止。）

參考譯文

2003年8月12日，曼聯(lián)以略微超過1200萬英鎊的價格簽下了當(dāng)時還沒什么名氣的克里斯蒂亞諾·羅納爾多。那年，他18歲。羅納爾多即將成為足球史上的最佳球員之一，但他的崛起之路遠(yuǎn)非坦途。

1996年，里斯本競技給了羅納爾多一次考驗(yàn)的機(jī)會。他來到葡萄牙首都，有了一個實(shí)現(xiàn)夢想的機(jī)會。這對一個11歲的孩子來說是一次嚴(yán)峻的考驗(yàn)，他必須快速地成長起來。在與里斯本競技簽約后，羅納爾多接下來得適應(yīng)遠(yuǎn)離家人的生活。

克里斯蒂亞諾：我父母……與一個才11歲的孩子分開是件大事。因?yàn)橄爰?，我每天都會哭。?dāng)時我父親說：“如果這就是你想要的。去試試吧，讓我們拭目以待?！边@非常困難，你也知道。

萊昂內(nèi)爾·龐特斯（前教練）：他從不向我們吐露他的苦惱，他是個很堅(jiān)強(qiáng)的孩子，因?yàn)樗胩咦闱?，他想?xùn)練，他想練習(xí)。他每天都會跟他母親通話，他母親又會跟我通話。我們試著跟他溝通，告訴他該怎么做，告訴他生活有時候并不容易，我們必須每天都作出努力，去改變，專注我們的夢想。有時候他會哭，雖然并不會在我們面前那么做，但他母親跟我說過很多次：“他哭了，他哭了。”我沒見到，我從來沒見過他哭。

何塞·塞梅多（好友）：那個來自馬德拉的男孩，他第一次訓(xùn)練時的表現(xiàn)——我們從未見過那樣的表現(xiàn)。他比其他人出色太多了，非常非常出色。你根本不可能嫉妒他，因?yàn)樵谀忝χ刀仕麜r，他又踢進(jìn)三顆球了。他不想輸球，他只想贏。

克里斯蒂亞諾：獲勝——那是對我而言最重要的事，就這么簡單。我總說，不管你踢得是好是壞，最重要的是要贏球。因?yàn)樵?0年、20年后，人們只會記得誰是贏家。

萊昂內(nèi)爾：我認(rèn)為是他的性格改變了一切，讓他脫穎而出。他熱愛踢球，對練球充滿激情。我認(rèn)為這就是不同點(diǎn)，因?yàn)橐恍┘记刹诲e的球員并不會努力提高，因?yàn)樗麄冇小麄冇X得那就夠了，但對羅納爾多來說，這還不夠。

克里斯蒂亞諾：我們也曾經(jīng)歷苦痛。人們現(xiàn)在會想：“啊，他們穿阿瑪尼，他們有車，他們什么都有了?！钡麄儾恢赖氖?，我們也是經(jīng)歷了種種痛苦之后，才有現(xiàn)在這些成就。我之所以能擁有如今這一切，是因?yàn)槲覡奚撕芏?，奉獻(xiàn)精神，時刻努力，以及有堅(jiān)定的信念。

卡洛斯·弗雷塔斯（前足球部主任）：那時候，他跟其他來自里斯本的男孩們就住在體育場附近。晚上的時候，他會前往體育館獨(dú)自練習(xí)。保安不得不過去喊他：“聽著，快回去睡覺。”他從小就定下了目標(biāo)，重點(diǎn)明確——他要成為世界上最厲害的球員。他跟其他男孩完全不一樣，因?yàn)樗梢詰{一己之力決定一場球賽的勝負(fù)。

克里斯蒂亞諾：足球的節(jié)奏太快了，一切都來得太快，人們不會想著當(dāng)下。但當(dāng)下才是人生中最為重要的，未來終將到來。當(dāng)下？就是現(xiàn)在。讓我們享受現(xiàn)在吧。對我來說，每一年都是新的挑戰(zhàn)，即使我去年進(jìn)了100顆球我也不在乎。今年，我同樣要做到。