美語情景對話 第934期:Boxing as a Sport 拳擊運動

Erina: So Mike, I heard that you box?

惠裏奈：邁克，我聽說你打拳擊？

Mike: Well I don't box any more but I was boxing, mostly kick boxing for a while.

邁克：我現在已經不玩拳擊了，不過我以前的確打拳擊，主要是練習踢拳。

Erina: Wow, that sounds crazy. How did you get into it?

惠裏奈：哇哦，聽起來很瘋狂。你是怎麼喜歡上這種運動的？

Mike: Well, from a young age, from about the age of twelve, I started doing karate in Vancouver and I was training in karate for about seven or eight years and then once I graduated from high school I moved and I moved to Japan and there I continued and didn't have much time to do training but I got involved in the kick boxing circle with some friends that did a lot of kick boxing and different types of martial arts.

邁克：我從小在溫哥華練習空手道，大概是從12歲開始練的，我練了七八年的空手道，高中畢業以後我就搬去了日本，我在日本有繼續練空手道，不過沒有太多的時間訓練，後來因爲認識了一些練習踢拳和其他武術的朋友，我開始接觸踢拳、

Erina: Wow, kick boxing, so I assume the training is pretty hard too, right?

惠裏奈：哇哦，踢拳，我想練習這種運動一定很辛苦，對吧？

Mike: Yeah, the training was brutal.

邁克：對，訓練非常殘酷。

Erina: What kind of training do you do?

惠裏奈：你要做哪些訓練？

Mike: Well, I was never professional but I had a couple of amateur fights and I don't think people quite understand how much goes into one fight because leading up to the fight, a couple of months before the fight, a friend of mine and I would be training at least five times a week.

邁克：我並不是職業選手，不過我打過幾場業餘比賽，我想人們並不清楚一場比賽要付出多少，在比賽前的幾個月，我和朋友至少一週要訓練五次。

Erina: Wow.

惠裏奈：哇哦。

Mike: And we would do really brutal sprints up a hill over and over again and we'd do interval training on the sand and in addition, of course, we were doing lots of sparring and lots of conditioning and stuff that would just really push your body to the limit and really test you.

邁克：我們要在山上反覆進行殘酷的衝刺訓練，在沙子上進行間歇訓練，另外還要做大量的對打練習和訓練，要讓自己的身體達到極限，這是真正的考驗。

Erina: Wow, that must have been very tough. So were you ever worried about head injuries?

惠裏奈：哇哦，那一定非常辛苦。你沒有擔心過頭部會受傷？

Mike: Well, especially with boxing, you get a lot of head injuries and more so over time because unlike other martial arts, boxing is designed to keep you standing and taking hits and that's why you see a lot of professional boxers as they get older and near the end of their career or even after their career, a lot of them have severe brain damage. Their speech is impeded and you can tell that they've really done some damage to their head over the years.

邁克：像拳擊這種特別的運動，經常會造成頭部受傷，隨着時間的推移，頭部的傷勢會更多，因爲與其他武術運動不同，拳擊這種運動在保持站立的情況下承受對手的攻擊，所以你會看到很多職業拳擊手在年齡逐漸增大以後，在職業生涯快結束時或是在退役之後，他們會有嚴重的腦損傷。他們的語言能力會受員，你可以看到，隨着時間的流逝，他們的頭部的確會受到一些損害。

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重點講解：
1. lead up to （時間）臨近，緊挨在…之前；
例句：In the lead up to a new year, he makes his mind to work harder.
爲了迎接新的一年，他下定決心更加努力工作。
2. at least （數量）至少，不少於；
例句：I've lived here at least for three years.
我在這裏已經住了至少三年了。
3. over and over again 一再；再三；反覆；
例句：TV ads are usually repeated over and over again.
電視廣告通常一遍又一遍地重複播放。
4. in addition 另外；加之；除…之外；
例句：They bought some junk food in addition.
他們還買了一些垃圾食品。