[譯文] A-Rod a hit with special shoes

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From NYY site http://0rz.net/101G6 NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez remembers meeting his childhood idol Dan Marino once outside the Dan Marino Show when he was a young boy. Rodriguez was a poor boy growing up in Miami, Fla., with only his mother to care for him. His father left the family when he was just a boy. Arod還記得小時候曾在美式足球場外頭遇到過他的偶像Dan Marino。Arod在邁阿密長大，自幼貧困，在他很小的時候父親就過世了，由媽媽單獨撫養他。 So greeting Marino was the ultimate thrill for Rodriguez. Like any other child, the first thing he could think to say was, "Mr. Marino, I'm your biggest fan!" 當小Arod看到Marino的時候非常的興奮，他那時就像其他的小孩子一樣，唯一想做的就是對著Marino說:"嘿!Marino先生，我是你的超級球迷!" As Rodriguez recalls, Marino patted him on the back and said Rodriguez would end up better than Marino someday. Two MVP awards and a $252 million contract later, Rodriguez has rivaled Marino's football success by playing baseball. Arod回憶著往事，他記得那時候Marino輕拍他的背，告訴Arod說他以後一定會比自己還要成功。之後Arod奪得了兩屆的MVP以及拿到一紙2億5千2百萬的合約，Arod用棒球來和自己的偶像(打美式足球)相互匹敵。 Rodriguez and Marino later became friends, and one day Rodriguez asked Marino if the quarterback remembered the day when they first met. After all, Rodriguez never forgot it. 之後Arod和Marino變成朋友，有一天Arod問起這個明星四分衛是否還記得他們第一次見面的時候，Marino說記得。不管Marino記不記得，Arod可是牢記在心頭。 "I don't know if he was lying or trying to make me feel good, but he remembered, " Rodriguez said with a laugh. Arod笑著說:"我不知道Marino說記得是不是講客套話還是要讓我覺得好過之類的，總之他記得那幕就好啦。" Rodriguez gave 12 children from the East Bronx that same experience Wednesday. Rodriguez met with the children from the Harlem RBI program at the Nike ID.com development office in Manhattan to talk to them about what he did to overcome his poor background and achieve his goals. Arod在週三的時候到了East Bronx去和12位來自Harlem RBI活動營的小朋友會面，並和他們分享自己如何掙開貧困並達到自己的目標等經驗談。 "I was the biggest underdog coming up from a single-parent home," Rodriguez said. "Basically, if I had an opportunity to make it, they definitely can make it. Sometimes that's what kids need. They need to know there's a new life at the end of the tunnel." Arod說:"我來自貧困的單親家庭，家庭狀況根本沒辦法和別人相比。""基本上，我都有機會可以成功了，你們當然有機會可以成功。"Arod說:"有時候這正是孩子們所需要的，他們必須知道茫茫人生中還是有著目標可以依循。" The kids returned the favor. Rodriguez remembered a couple of special gifts he received as a poor child. One was a full baseball uniform and the other was a pair of blue suede shoes. 孩子們聽完後頻頻點頭，並送Arod禮物。說到禮物，Arod記得當他還是窮小孩的時候曾收到一對特別的禮物，一個是棒球制服，另一個是一雙藍色的仿麂皮鞋。 So in conjunction with Nike, the children competed to design a pair of training shoes that A-Rod would choose for him and his teammates. The program aimed to have the children use teamwork to generate a successful presentation. It's something that Harlem RBI stresses. 由於和Nike合作，使得這些小朋友得以合作設計一雙適合Arod和其隊友的訓練鞋。這個活動的主旨就是要讓小朋友們利用團隊合作來創造出好的表現，而團隊合作也是Harlem RBI所一直強調的。 Harlem RBI is a non-profit, after-school educational program. Boys and girls who are between seven and 18 years old must participate in classes such as SAT or internship preparation courses to play for the baseball or softball teams . With more than 600 children enrolled, there's a waiting list to get in. Harlem RBI是個課後教育公益組織，介於17~18歲的男生女生都必須參加學業性向測驗，而想要加入棒球或美式足球隊的也必須參加預先課程。他們只招收600名學生，其餘的就只能填寫等待遞補的單子。 "I love baseball," 13-year-old Nelson Miranda said. "At first, it was all about baseball to me. But then as you get older that's when they start teaching you about jobs and stuff, so now it's about being a team." 13歲的nelson Miranda說:"我愛棒球。""一開始，棒球對我來說，就只是打棒球。但當我慢慢長大後，他們開始教我守備還有防守員該做的事，所以現在棒球對我來說就是一個團隊。" The children's attention never strayed from the computers they used to design their shoes. That all went out the window when the star strolled in. There were muffled yelps from smitten girls and a dead silence from everybody else. They were all stunned. 這群小朋友們眼睛緊盯著電腦螢幕上他們所設計的鞋子，但當Arod出現時，全場鴉雀無聲，所有的小朋友都愣住了。 "You know when players win championships how they always say, 'It hasn't hit me ?'" 17-year-old Jonathon DeLeon said. "Now that I've experience it, it's true. I still can't believe I met A-Rod." 17歲的Jonathon DeLeon說:"你知道當球員拿下總冠軍的時候，他們總是會不可置信，會叫身旁的人打他一掌看看這是不是真的。而現在，我就有這種感覺，即使這是真的，天阿，我還是不敢相信 Arod就站在我面前。" Although he never went to college -- he was drafted straight out of high school -- Rodriguez said he wouldn't have made the money he did without getting a good education. Rodriguez talked about his dedication to staying away from negative influences such as drugs and his obsession with working harder than everybody else. Arod說他年輕時沒有錢可以讓他接受好的教育，雖然他從來沒有上過大學，但他還是在高中的時候靠著優異的表現在選秀中直接被選走。Arod也提到了他在讀書的過程中，他絕不碰毒品，而且他比任何人都還要來的努力。 "I never wanted to look in the mirror and say, 'What if?'" Rodriguez said. " What if I tried harder? What if I didn't try drugs? What if I didn't drink? I never wanted to do that." Arod說:"我從來不想要在鏡子前面懊悔說"如果我再努力一點就好了"、"如果我沒吸毒就好了"、"如果我沒酗酒"等等之類的事，我不會讓自己這樣。 Rodriguez was only 17 years old when he signed his first Major League contract for $1.3 million -- the same age DeLeon is now. DeLeon said he couldn't imagine that much money, but knew he would help his family if he made it, just like Rodriguez did. Arod在17歲就簽了一紙1百30萬的大聯盟合約，而DeLeon正值17歲，DeLeon說他無法想像他現在能有這麼多的錢，但他知道他以後能夠像Arod一樣成功的幫助家庭。 DeLeon asked Rodriguez so many questions that the Yankees third baseman had trouble getting a word in. But he didn't have to say much to leave an impact. DeLeon問了Arod許多讓他難以啟齒的問題，而Arod也並未說太多。 "Just his presence is dominant enough in terms of his influence on me that I don't think he even had to say anything," DeLeon said. "I'll never forget his message about hard work and what it takes to be successful in life." DeLeon說:"他出現對我影響就很大了，而我也不認為他有必要說太多東西。""我絕對不會忘記他所分享的成功經驗談。" In the end, each team won the shoe designing competition as Rodriguez chose all three. But by that point, it didn't even matter. Even with an autographed ball in one hand and baseball cards in the other, the children valued most the message and memory they'll carry forever. 在最後，每個小隊所設計的鞋子都獲得Arod的讚賞，但在此時此刻，什麼都不重要了。即使每個人手上都有Arod親筆簽名的球和球員卡，但每個人心中最珍視的還是Arod留下的字字珠璣，而他們也會把這段回憶永遠的保存在心中。" "I not worried about sneakers right now," Miranda said. "He's telling us what he did and he made it far. So if he did it, that means we could do it." Miranda說:"我已經不在意Arod是不是會喜歡我們所設計的鞋子了""他告訴我們成功的經驗，我想他能夠做到，我們將來一定也能夠做到。" -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 61.217.216.113