偶像励志英语演讲 59:执着于你的梦想(3)

[00:00.29]I started way back as a weightlifter. 我出道时是个举重运动员。 [00:04.40]I always liked the idea of lifting weights and being a bodybuilder. 我一直都喜欢举重运动，渴望能成为一名健美运动员。 [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, 自从第一次抓紧杠铃、将其高高举过头顶之际， [00:17.42]I felt this exhilaration, 我就为此感到异常兴奋。 [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. 那时我知道，我迷上了这项运动，这将是我要做的事情， [00:28.20]I'm going to pursue the sport of weightlifting and bodybuilding. 我将从事举重和健美运动。 [00:32.39]Now, I remember the first real workout that I had. 我还记得最初那次真正的训练。 [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. 当时我骑着自行车前往一家健身房，那儿离我在奥地利一个小村庄里的家有八英里之遥。 [00:46.17]And there I trained for half an hour, 在那里我训练了半个钟头， [00:49.01]because they said that after half an hour you should stop because otherwise your body will get really sore. 因为他们告诉我，训练必须半小时一停，否则你会全身酸痛。 [00:54.56]But after half an hour I looked at my body, and nothing had happened. 但半小时之后，我看看自己的身体，一点变化也没有! [01:00.24]So I said, "I'd better work out for another half hour." 于是我说，“最好再练半小时吧。” [01:03.33]So I lifted some more. 就又多举了几下。 [01:04.50]My strength didn't improve, I didn't see the muscles pop out or anything like that, 可是我的力气并未因此增强，也不见肌肉鼓起来。 [01:09.19]so I trained for another half an hour. 然后我又练了半小时， [01:11.57]And then after another half hour I trained another half hour, 再加半小时…… [01:15.40]and all together I trained two and a half hours. 结果总共练了两个半小时。 [01:19.03]Well, let me tell you something. 让我告诉你们， [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-- 尽管他们告诉我不能练那么久，否则会浑身酸痛，但我训练了两个半小时， [01:26.57]I rode my bicycle home. 然后我离开健身房骑车回家。 [01:28.13]And after the first mile I got numb, and I couldn't feel anymore the handle of the bicycle, 刚走一英里，我顿觉四肢麻木，连车把都感觉不到了， [01:34.28]and I fell off the bike and I fell into the ditch on the side of the road. 结果整个人从车上摔下来，掉进了路边的水沟里。 [01:39.09]So I got up again and I tried it again. 我站起来，又试了一次， [01:41.36]Another few yards, I felt off the bicycle again. 但没骑多远又摔了下来。 [01:44.35]And I tried it three, four more times, and I just couldn't ride my bicycle 接下来我又试了三四次，但依旧不行， [01:48.07]because my body was so numb and my legs felt like noodles. 因为我全身异常酸麻，感觉腿就像面条一样软弱无力。

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