名校励志英语演讲 第98期:执着于你的梦想(3)
今天，我想跟你们谈谈梦想，关于畅想你们未来的梦想，关于中国的梦想。
I want to talk to you a little bit about dreams, because it seems to me that I'm somewhat of an expert in dreams, because I had a lot of my dreams become a reality.
我之所以想跟你们略谈梦想，是因为我觉得自己似乎是这方面的专家，因为我的许多梦想都已经实现。
So let me just briefly tell you my story, and tell you a little bit about how I started with my career. I think that this story kind of relates a little bit also to you, and also to China.
因此，让我简单地讲述一下我的故事，告诉你们我是怎样开始我的职业生涯的。我想这个故事多多少少会对你们甚至对中国有所启示。
I started way back as a weightlifter. I always liked the idea of lifting weights and being a bodybuilder. From the first moment when I gripped a barbell and held it around the bar and lifted the steel up over my head, I felt this exhilaration, 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. I'm going to pursue the sport of weightlifting and bodybuilding.
我出道时是个举重运动员，渴望能成为一名健美运动员。自从第一次抓紧杠铃、将其高高举过头顶之际，我就为此感到异常兴奋。那时我知道，我迷上了这项运动，这将是我要做的事情，我将从事举重和健美运动。
Now, I remember the first real workout that I had. Eight miles away from my home village in Austria there was a gymnasium, and I rode to that gymnasium with a bicycle. And there I trained for half an hour, because they said that after half an hour you should stop because otherwise your body will get really sore. But after half an hour I looked at my body, and nothing had happened. So I said, "I'd better work out for another half hour." So I lifted some more. My strength didn't improve, I didn't see the muscles pop out or anything like that, so I trained for another half an hour. And then after another half hour I trained another half hour, and all together I trained two and a half hours.
我还记得最初那次真正的训练。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。在那里我训练了半个钟头，因为它们告诉我，训练必须半小时一停，否则你会全身酸痛。但半小时后，我看看自己的身体，一点变化都没有!于是我说：“最好再练半个小时吧。”可是我的力气并未因此增强，也不见肌肉鼓起来。然后我又练了半小时，再加半小时...结果总共练了两个半小时。
