[05:59.97]Lesson 21
[06:03.49]boxing
[06:04.93]拳击
[06:06.37]Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
[06:09.49]两百年前，拳击比赛在英国非常盛行。
[06:12.61]Boxing is show-business with blood.
[06:14.90]拳击是一项以血娱人的娱乐。
[06:17.18]Boxing is the single most inhuman sport,which only humans can invent.
[06:20.96]拳击是最不人道的运动，然而只有人能够发明。
[06:24.73]boxer
[06:26.21]拳击手
[06:27.68]In those days,boxers fought with bare fists for prize money.
[06:30.87]当时，拳击手不戴手套。为争夺奖金而博斗。
[06:34.06]Boxing is a rough sport in which one boxer tries to knock the other out.
[06:37.64]拳击是一项粗野的运动，在比赛中一方力求击倒另一方。
[06:41.21]An American dentist who turned boxer,
[06:43.64]美国有一个改行做拳击手的牙医，
[06:46.07]when asked why he had changed his profession,said:
[06:48.59]有人问他为什么改行，他说：
[06:51.12]'It pays me better to knock teeth out him than put them in.'
[06:54.15]“把牙敲掉比装上赚得多。”
[06:57.18]bare
[06:58.46]赤裸的
[06:59.74]In those days,boxers fought with bare fists for prize money.
[07:02.82]当时，拳击手不敲手套，为争奖金而博斗。
[07:05.90]You'll cut yourself if you walk on the sand in bare feet.
[07:09.23]你赤脚在沙子上走会划破脚的。
[07:12.56]The mulberry trees bare and the fields were brown.
[07:15.34]桑树光秃秃的，田野也是片荒凉。
[07:18.13]prizefighter
[07:19.71]职业拳击手
[07:21.29]Because of this,they were known as'prizefighters.'
[07:24.02]因此，他们被称作“博奖拳击手”。
[07:26.75]crude
[07:28.07]粗野的
[07:29.38]However,boxing was very coude,for there were no rules and a prizefighter
[07:33.17]不过，拳击是十分野蛮的，因为当时没有任何比赛规则，
[07:36.96]could be seriously injured or even killed during a match.
[07:39.89]职业拳击手有可能在比赛中受重伤，甚至丧命。
[07:42.81]Johnny's way of dealing with hooligans was very crude but highly effective.
[07:46.39]约翰尼对付流氓的办法很粗野，但却十分有效。
[07:49.97]Harry began to reveal himself as more than merely cruds.
[07:53.16]哈里开始暴露出他的本相不仅仅是粗暴而已。
[07:56.34]marquis
[07:57.82]侯爵
[07:59.29]The use of gloves was not introduced until 1860,
[08:02.26]1860年昆斯伯里侯爵第一次为拳击比赛制定了规则，
[08:05.22]when he marquis of Queensberry drew up the first set of rules.
[08:08.49]拳击比赛这才用上了手套。
[08:11.76]Marquis is a European title of nobility,
[08:14.59]侯爵是欧洲的一种贵族头衔，
[08:17.42]ranking immediately below a duke and above a count.
[08:20.40]在公爵之下，伯爵之上。
[08:23.38]The marquis is a great patron of art.
[08:25.81]这位侯爵是艺术的大恩主。
[08:28.24]technically
[08:29.66]严格根据法律意义地
[08:31.09]Though he was technically a prizefighter,
[08:33.21]虽然多萨严格来讲不过是个职业拳击手，
[08:35.34]Mendoza did much to change prizefighting to a sport,
[08:38.23]但在他为把拳击提升成为一种体育运动
[08:41.12]for he brought science to the game.
[08:43.09]作出了重大的贡献。是他们把科学引进了拳击。
[08:45.06]'I wonder whether he is a political prisoner,'He isn't,technically.Yet he is.'
[08:49.33]“我不知道他是不是政治犯。”“从法律上来说，他不是。可实际上是。”
[08:53.60]Technically you could be prosecuted for this
[08:56.02]严格按法律办事的话
[08:58.44]but I don't suppose,the defense counsel would to that.
[09:00.96]辩护律师可以起诉你，可是我想他不会那么做。
[09:03.48]science
[09:04.91]科学
[09:06.35]The computer is one of the marvels of modern science.
[09:09.02]计算机是现代科学的奇迹之一。
[09:11.68]The great tragedy of science-the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
[09:15.30]科学的大悲剧是--美丽的理论被丑恶的事实扼杀。
[09:18.92]popularity
[09:20.50]名望
[09:22.08]In his day,Mendoza enjoyed tremendous popularity.
[09:24.95]门多萨在他的全盛时斯深受大家欢迎。
[09:27.82]He was some fifty years of age,and his popularity was at its height.
[09:31.15]他年纪五十上下，名望也达到了顶点。
[09:34.48]The driveling song seemed to have kept in popularity.
[09:37.76]看起来那支絮絮叨叨的歌倒时盛行不衰。
[09:41.04]adore
[09:42.36]崇拜
[09:43.68]He was adored by rich and poor alike.
[09:46.00]穷人富人都对他崇拜备至。
[09:48.33]He will make this girl his wife,passionately adore her for six weeks,
[09:51.87]他会娶这个女孩子，对她顶礼膜拜六个星期，
[09:55.41]and then suddenly become fascinated by someone else.
[09:58.03]然后突然迷了别人。
[10:00.66]My friend adores the life of the Ganadian University
[10:03.53]我朋友对加拿大大学的生活非常喜欢，
[10:06.41]with its happy freedom and its jolly companionships.
[10:09.19]认为那儿的生活自由自在，人际交往也非常愉快。
[10:11.97]alike
[10:13.41]一样的
[10:14.84]Men and women alike screamed with rage,fear and desperation,
[10:18.08]男男女女都一样，又气，又怕，又绝望，
[10:21.32]all mixed into one emotional spasm.
[10:23.95]齐声叫了起来，大家都情绪激愤。
[10:26.57]The sun shines all alike.
[10:28.61]太阳照耀万物。
[10:30.65]fame
[10:31.97]名声
[10:33.29]Mendoza rose to fane swiftly after a boxing match when he was only fourteen years old.
[10:37.17]门多萨在14岁参加了一场拳击赛后一举成名。
[10:41.04]Vera was in no way moved by either his wealth or fame.
[10:44.43]他的财富也好，名声也罢，都不会让维拉动心。
[10:47.81]A few poems,some stories;these are Edgar Allen Poe's claim to fame as a writer.
[10:52.75]几首诗，几个短篇小说，就是爱伦坡驰誉文坛的本钱
[10:57.68]eminent
[10:59.06]著名的
[11:00.43]This attracted the attention of Richard Humphries
[11:02.96]这引起了当时英国拳击坛名将里查德.汉弗莱的注意。
[11:05.50]who was then the most eminent boxers in England.
[11:10.82]He was an eminent pickpocket.
[11:12.85]他以前是个出名的扒手。
[11:14.87]Watson was eminent among his contemporaries.
[11:17.35]华生在同代人里很出名。
[11:19.84]bitterly
[11:21.22]厉害地
[11:22.61]The two men quarreled bitterly
[11:24.53]两个人吵得很凶，
[11:26.45]and it was clear that the argument could only be settled by a fight.
[11:29.42]显而易见，只有较量一番才能解决问题。
[11:32.40]The Ministry was attacked bitterly by not carrying out a more radical policy.
[11:35.98]内阁因为没有实行激进的政策遭到猛烈的抨击。
[11:39.56]Hal was bitterly unhappy and proves it forcefully.
[11:42.13]哈尔非常不开心，并且以一种强烈的方式表现了出来。
[11:44.71]bet
[11:48.02]打赌
[11:51.34]The public bet a great deal of money on Mendoza,but he was defeated.
[11:54.81]公众把大笔赌注下到门多萨身上，可他却输了。
[11:58.29]If he would bet on horse-races in spite of your warnings,
[12:01.23]他不听你的劝非常要去赌马，
[12:04.17]he deserves to lose his money.
[12:06.05]输钱活该。
[12:07.93]You can bet your boots that he will come.
[12:10.15]没错儿，他准会来。
[12:12.37]Academy
[12:14.41]专业学校
[12:16.44]Meanwhile,he founded a highly successful Academy
[12:19.12]同时，他建立了一所拳击学校，
[12:21.80]and even Lord Byron became one of his pupils.
[12:24.48]办得很成功，连拜伦也成了他的学生。
[12:27.15]Pablo Picasso graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.
[12:30.68]毕加索毕业于皇家马德里美术学院。
[12:34.21]Perhaps to discipline him,his father sent him to a faraway Admiral Academy.
[12:37.84]也许是为了磨炼他，他父亲把他送到一所很远的海军学校。
[12:41.47]extravagant
[12:43.05]浪费的，奢侈的
[12:44.63]Despite this,he was so extravagant that he was always in debt.
[12:47.80]尽管收入很高，但他挥堆无度，经常债台高筑。
[12:50.98]His description of Gatsby's extravagant parties are closer to satire than eulogy.
[12:54.95]他对盖茨比豪宴的描述与其说是赞颂不如说是讽刺。
[12:58.92]It is difficult of him to part with his extravagant habits.
[13:01.70]要他戒除那些奢侈的习惯可真不容易。
[13:04.48]poverty
[13:05.80]穷困
[13:07.12]He was sent to prison for failing to pay his debts and died in poverty in 1863.
[13:11.35]他因为无力还债而被捕入狱，最后于1836年在贫因中死去。
[13:15.59]At last from great wealth he fell into the direct proverty.
[13:18.67]他终于由巨富沦为赤贫。
[13:21.75]I had forgotten the taste of poverty
[13:23.88]我多年以写作和讲课为生，
[13:26.01]during the years I had been earning my living by writing and lecturing.
[13:29.13]已经忘记了贫困的滋味。
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