华尔街基础英语Lesson 50

From Kristi Schmidt: Hundreds of journalists from all of Europe were at Washday Airport this afternoon to meet Germany’s football superstar¹ Manfred Pilzbanm coming in for next Wednesday’s Would Cup match against Italy. What has Pilzbanm got that’s so special? Last year he earned over 3,000,000 German marks, and it’s impossible these days to open a newspaper without seeing his name. “ After all, you are a soccer player, not an Einstein or a Schopenhauer?” I put it to him. “ So how many World Cup goals has this Schopenhauer guy scored, eh?” he asked. I told them that Schopenhauer was a philosopher² not a soccer played. “ I’m a philosophy³ too. I’ll tell you my philosophy.” Pilzbanm said. “ You need exactly the same thing in football as you need in life. And in life, you need two of them. Do you get it?” “ I got it.”

1 superstar   

n.超级明星

参考例句：

• And he is a superstar.而且他还是一位超级明星。
• She has all the earmarks of a superstar.她具备超级明星的一切特征。

2 philosopher   

n.哲学家，哲人

参考例句：

• The philosopher has his ideas built on the rock of reason.那位哲学家把思想稳固地建立于理性之上。
• What a philosopher seeks after is truth.一个哲学家所追求的是真理。

3 philosophy   

n.哲学，人生观，原理

参考例句：

• He believed in the philosophy of Russell.他信奉罗素的哲学。
• I can't sum up his whole philosophy in one sentence.我无法用一句话来概括他的全部人生观。