A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
奥运
Olympic
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
奥运会是为运动员个人的呼气而设立的。
I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
如果能获得奥运会铜牌，我会很高兴。我没有的是奥运会奖牌。
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
如果你不想赢，你还不如在别人的后院举办奥运会。
I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
我的目标是成为奥运代表队，没有意识到这将是多么艰难。
When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.
当你参加像奥运会这样的活动时，你会给自己施加太多的压力。
I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.
我已经参加了三届奥运会，但我觉得我从来没有在任何一届奥运会上取得过最好的成绩。
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
在奥运会上获得第二名可以获得银牌。在政治上排名第二会让你被遗忘。
Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.
奥运会奖牌是我唯一没有的奖牌;我参加过的几乎所有其他比赛我都赢过。
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
大多数其他比赛是个人成就，但奥运会是属于每个人的。
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
当我开始这项运动的时候，我想回到游泳池，我想比赛，我想参加奥运会。我仍然想做所有这些事情。
I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.
我给自己定了一些具体的目标，但最关键的是让自己在今年的某一天保持尽可能好的身材:奥林匹克马拉松。
One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
人们必须正确看待事情——我被赋予了一种环境，没有多少时间来恢复状态，并努力为这个国家争取奥运配额。
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My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.
我今年的课程表比较轻松，因为今年是奥运年。
It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.
我的兄弟姐妹们让我经历了很多痛苦。我可以参加任何一场奥运会决赛，我可以参加世界锦标赛，然后在突然死亡的情况下落后并获胜，但对我的兄弟姐妹们来说，这是我无法控制的。我无能为力。
So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.
所以作为一名业余奥运选手，我喜欢批评，因为它让我变得更好。但现在作为一名专业人士，我真的不知道该如何引导它，也不知道该把它带到哪里去，所以我不太擅长。
People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
人们谈论退休。我从来没说过脏话。人们虽然我离开后，奥运会。我抽出时间做了一件我一直想做的事——做一个母亲。
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.
奥运奖牌并不能定义我的一生，尽管在旁观者看来它可能就是这样。当我回首往事，我应该能够获得一枚奥运奖牌。
I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.
我还没有机会在奥运会马拉松比赛中为自己正名。我还没能在没有受伤的情况下参加奥运会马拉松比赛。