Reading，Unit 4 Growing up【教材同步】苏教译林版初三（九

　　苏教译林版初三（九年级A）上

　　Unit 4 Growing up

　　Reading

　　

　　

　　Word文档及翻译

　　David likes basketball. He is reading an article about Spud Webb,a retired American NBA player. Here is the article.

　　戴维喜欢篮球。他正在阅读一篇关于斯巴德·韦伯，一位已退役的美国NBA球员的文章。这就是那篇文章。

　　The shortest player in the NBA

　　NBA中最矮的球员

　　Spud Webb was born in Texas,the USA,in 1963. He was very small-much smaller than the other kids at school. However, he had a big dream-he wanted to play in the NBA.

　　斯巴德-韦伯1963年出生在美国的得克萨斯州。他很矮小——比学校里其他的孩子要矮小得多。然而，他有一个很大的梦想——他想在NBA打球。

　　While attending junior high,Spud tried out for the school team, but he was refused to play at first because he was too small. He did not lose heart, When he finally got the chance,he scored 20 points in his first game. From then on,he was the star of the team.

　　当他上初中时，斯巴德就参加了校队的选拔，但是一开始他就落选了，因为他太矮小。他没有灰心。当他最后得到机会时，他在首场比赛中就得了20分。从那时起，他成了校队的明星。

　　In senior high,Spud often had to sit in the stands because of his height. He practised even harder and got the coach to change his mind. Spud went on to become leader of the team In his last year of senior high,he was named Player of the Year in Texas.

　　在高中，斯巴德因为身高经常不得不坐在看台上。他练习得更刻苦，并使教练改变了想法。斯巴德接着成为了队长。在他高中的最后一年里，斯巴德被称为“得克萨斯州年度最佳球员”。

　　However,no university would invite him to play basketball simply because he was only 170 cm tall. He decided to play at a junior college. There he led his eam to the national championship. This brought him to the attention of North Carolina State University. As a result, he succeeded in getting a scholarslup.

　　然而，没有大学愿意邀请他打篮球，只是因为他仅有170厘米高。他决定在一所大专打球。在那儿他带领他的球队参加了全国比赛。这引起了北卡罗莱纳州立大学对他的注意。结果他成功地获得了奖学金。

　　Although he was a great player at university, the NBA was not interested in him because all its players were more than 20 cm taller than he was. After he graduated,he was forced to play in another basketball league. He remained there for about a year before the NBA took notice of him In 1985,he joined the Atlanta Hawks and became the shortest player in the NBA at that time. He had many great achievements, but his proudest moment came in 1986-he won the Slam Dunk Contest.

　　尽管他是大学里的一位优秀球员，但是NBA对他不感兴趣，因为所有的NBA球员都比他高超过20厘米。在他毕业后，他被迫去另一个篮球联赛打球。在NBA注意到他之前，他在那里待了大约一年。在1985年，他加入了亚特兰大老鹰队并且成了那个时候NBA中最矮的球员。他取得过许多伟大的成绩，但是最让他自豪的那一刻是在1986年——他在灌篮比赛中获胜了。

　　Through hard work,Spud Webb proved that size and body tWe does not matter-you can do almost anything if you never give up.

　　通过艰苦的努力，斯巴德·韦伯证明了身高和体型并不重要——只要你永不放弃，几乎没有什么做不到的事情。