CNN 2011-02-08

Well, some history has been made in the semi-final at the Australian Open. Chinese player Li Na upset the world No.1 top seed, Caroline Wozniacki.She is the first Chinese player, in fact the first Asian player to reach a grand slams single’s final. Sam Grant is in Beijing to tell us more about the excitement that this is all generating¹ I know stand from my  time in China that whenever the Chinese reached the final that anything like this, the country can go kind of a little nuts.

They go their nuts on Saturday when the final play drop,you know last year, 500,000 people watched on one, one Beijing television station when she made the semi-final in Sydney, so this time it is gonna be the final .You can multiply that many many times over, right across China.

You are right, this is another step forward, not just for Li Na but for China. We had Yao Ming in the basketball, Liu Xiang in the athletics² when he had gold medal Athen’s sports world champion hurdler, as well as now Li Na. She’s done it .The hard way has to be said, you know, she is 29 years old .That’s consider getting out there. In tennis term, most people are sort of arounded 19 and 20 mark when they get reach their first finals.Since she had to overcome Caroline Wozniacki who is the world No.1. She was actually down on match point. In the second set, she lost the first set. Match point in the second set,came back and save that, then won that second set. Then on the first set, she was asked after what inspired her, and she said the prize money, so she said it got her priority³ straight. You know she suffered a lot with injuries in the past. it has been said that had impeded⁴ her progress, but a huge reaction is coming in that eye and the prize money, John.

And, what else do you know about Li Na?We know that as you said, she is a little old. She’s 29 years of age. She’s a product of some fairly strict Communist style sports training in the past. Her father was dead. Her mother raised her. What else we know?

Yeah, she headed to a really, up against the officials. So she is fairly rebellious⁵ character. You know she stood up to the Chinese officials to demand to do it her own way. She wanted to set her own schedule, had her own coaching. She won that battle. Her husband is now her coach. This could all have been so different. She’s goaled to be a badminton player, and she was a part of the badminton stream when she was young and recognized as a potential athlete, but her coach saw her playing, and said “look, she plays more like a tennis player rather than a badminton player”,switched her and then of of course that she’s gone on to successful tennis player. She said,she mentioned that her parents. Her father past away when she was young. She credited very much her mother with being a big inspiration⁶ and giving her will to go on.

Her mother though has never seen a match.She didn’t watch a day. She hasn’t watched any of her deal with the pressure. Interesting to see, John.She actually watches on satellite before I go, there were already some tweets coming out, you are like some of these. Don’t look just the NBA now, so not just talking about basketball but rivals in tennis. It is a miracle that Li Na is making history for Chinese people everywhere.And how's this one ?May Li Na bring power to support the Chinese stock market.John.

1 generating   

n.发生，产生v.生（儿、女）( generate的现在分词 )；（通过物理或化学过程）发生；生成；引起

参考例句：

• There are many ways of generating a two-dimensional representation of an object. 有很多制作物体二维图的方法。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Generating functions are an ideal tool for studying sequences defined by recurrence. 母函数是研究用递推关系来确定的函数的最理想工具。 来自辞典例句

2 athletics   

n.运动，体育，田径运动

参考例句：

• When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.我上学的时候体育十分糟糕。
• Our team tied with theirs in athletics.在田径比赛中，我们队与他们队旗鼓相当。

3 priority   

n.优先处理的事，居先，优先（权）

参考例句：

• The development of the national economy is a top priority.发展国民经济是应予以最优先考虑的事。
• Things should be taken up in order of priority.办事应有个先后次序。

4 impeded   

阻碍，妨碍，阻止( impede的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Work on the building was impeded by severe weather. 楼房的施工因天气恶劣而停了下来。
• He was impeded in his work. 他的工作受阻。

5 rebellious   

adj.造反的，反抗的，难控制的

参考例句：

• They will be in danger if they are rebellious.如果他们造反，他们就要发生危险。
• Her reply was mild enough,but her thoughts were rebellious.她的回答虽然很温和，但她的心里十分反感。

6 inspiration   

n.灵感，鼓励者，吸气

参考例句：

• These events provided the inspiration for his first novel.这些事件给了他创作第一部小说的灵感。
• What an inspiration she was to all around her!她对于她周围所有的人是一种多么大的鼓舞！