A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
拳击
Boxing
Squash is boxing with racquets.
壁球是用球拍打拳击。
I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
我一直想拍一部拳击电影。
Boxing is just show business with blood.
拳击只不过是用鲜血做的表演。
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
进攻只是拳击艺术的一半。
I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.
我从小就是个拳击迷。
I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
我想可以说我一直是个拳击迷。
Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
拳击与你的感受无关。它是关于性能。
In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
在拳击比赛中,你永远不知道在拳击场上你将面对谁。
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
拳击是烟雾缭绕的大厅,肾脏被打得流血不止。
The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
拳击的问题在于,它常常以悲伤告终。
I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.
当我练习站立时,我确实会使用拳击教练。
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
拳击比赛中为所有人鸣响的丧钟属于收银机。
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Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
拳击就像爵士乐。它越好,人们就越不喜欢它。
But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.
但拳击是我的职业。我不得不回去第二次,因为我破产了,我不能只是去拿一个大学学位,然后挣到它。我有太多的账单,太多的家庭。
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
在那个年代,拳击是非常迷人和浪漫的。你听着广播里的打斗,一个好的播音员把它说成是角斗士之间的比赛。
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.
我是个讽刺作家,所以如果这个人值得讽刺,我就会戴上拳击手套。但我不是刺客。
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
我从父亲那里了解到真正的演艺圈,他离开拳击界后就当了演员。