美国国家公共电台 NPR--Mikaela Shiffrin won her 82nd World Cup race in Slovenia over the weekend

Mikaela Shiffrin won her 82nd World Cup race in Slovenia over the weekend

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American alpine² skier³ Mikaela Shiffrin has tied Lindsey Vonn's record for most race wins in women's World Cup history. Shiffrin may soon become the most decorated skier ever.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

A 27-year-old American is very likely to soon become the most decorated alpine skier of all time. Mikaela Shiffrin won her 82nd World Cup race on Sunday in Slovenia. And in doing so, she tied Lindsey Vonn's career record of 82 wins, the most for any woman ever on the World Cup circuit. Shiffrin's closing in on the men's record, as well. But in the middle of it all, she says she's fighting anxiety, grief⁴ and loss. Here's Shiffrin right after her 82nd win on Sunday.

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MIKAELA SHIFFRIN: I wish I could go back to a time when I could share it with more of the people that I love. And I have a feeling right now like something bad is going to happen because the last time I had momentum⁵ like this was the season before my nana died and my dad died.

FADEL: Reporter John Henderson is covering the events. Now he's in Austria, where more World Cup races are scheduled to take place today. He spoke⁶ with our co-host A. Martínez.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

All right, John. So 82 World Cup wins. Give us a sense of how big of a deal this is.

JOHN HENDERSON, BYLINE⁷: So Shiffrin is 27. Lindsey Vonn was 34 when she quit. So she's got seven years on her. Also, keep in mind, Shiffrin is only four away from the all-time record of Ingemar Stenmark's 86, so she'll soon top all the skiers in history. In addition, she's done this in all the disciplines - slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, downhill, parallel slalom, combined. Stenmark did all 86 of his wins in slalom and giant slalom.

MART?NEZ: And the thing about it, too, John, is that, I mean, at 27, that's the athletic⁸ prime for most athletes in most sports. So she's, I mean, right in the perfect time to be able to attain⁹ these records and possibly break them. What has she had to overcome to even get here, though?

HENDERSON: Well, it's - the big thing was three years ago, her father died. He died in a tragic¹⁰ home accident right in the middle of her season in February. He was her rock. Her mom was her coach, but her father was her confidant. Well, when he died, she flew back from Europe, and she fell apart. And then the second thing happened was last year at the Olympics. She had six races. She was favored in the slalom and a medal favorite in the giant slalom. She didn't win a single medal. She had three did-not-finishes. And she'd only had two others your entire career. So she had to overcome this horrible Olympics in front of the world. But this offseason, she had a complete attitude turnaround. She said, just because you fail doesn't mean you're a failure. So what she did - she stopped worrying about winning and started focusing just on her technique and the race itself and the tactics¹¹. And then once she stopped worrying about winning, she started to win again. And what's amazing is she's doing this now, winning all these races. And she said if she just thinks about winning at the start gate, she won't win.

MART?NEZ: Which, John, I guess, I mean, considering how close she is to all of these records, I mean, it should set her up for an easy, an easy next few months to to break them, right?

HENDERSON: Well, not really. I was Kranjska Gora to watch her tie Lindsey Vonn's record of 82 wins. And I had a chance to talk to her a little bit afterwards. Here's what she said.

SHIFFRIN: I feel quite nervous, which is actually not a good feeling. This stress that I have in my body right now is not very good, but my skiing was really strong.

MART?NEZ: You would think that someone that is so close to these amazing records would be more well-known, especially in America, because, as you know, John, America loves their sports winners.

HENDERSON: Skiers in Europe are rock stars. They're mobbed everywhere. Even with me, I was in Slovenia for the last three days. And even coming up to Austria, every time anybody saw me as an American or learned I was American, they asked me if I was here to see Mikaela Shiffrin. Everybody knows her. She was mobbed everywhere in Slovenia. So she's very well-known in Europe also because skiing is televised everywhere. It's not in America. In America, skiing comes around every four years for two weeks and then disappears. I think with this record, it's going to put her more in the public eye.

MART?NEZ: For NPR, that's reporter John Henderson. John, thanks.

HENDERSON: You bet. My pleasure.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 alpine   

adj.高山的；n.高山植物

参考例句：

• Alpine flowers are abundant there.那里有很多高山地带的花。
• Its main attractions are alpine lakes and waterfalls .它以高山湖泊和瀑布群为主要特色。

3 skier   

n.滑雪运动员

参考例句：

• She is a skier who is unafraid of danger.她是一名敢于冒险的滑雪者。
• The skier skimmed across the snow.滑雪者飞快地滑过雪地。

4 grief   

n.悲伤，悲痛，悲伤的事，悲痛的缘由

参考例句：

• Don't allow yourself to sink into grief,it can do no good.不要使自己陷入悲哀之中，这样一点好处也没有。
• After her mother died,she abandoned herself to grief.母亲死后，她沉浸于悲痛之中。

5 momentum   

n.动力，冲力，势头；动量

参考例句：

• We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。

6 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

7 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

8 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

9 attain   

vt.达到，获得，完成

参考例句：

• I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
• His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。

10 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

11 tactics   

n.策略；战术，兵法

参考例句：

• They planned the tactics for the next day's battle.他们制定好第二天的战术。
• He decided to switch tactics.他决定改变策略。