英文原版对话1000个:1200 Born to Run

 　　Todd: Well actually speaking of extreme sports, we're talking about extreme sports, have you heard about ultra marathon?

 

　　Julia: I'm reading a book right now that's about a tribe of ultra runners in Mexico and I thing it's gonna come on to the subject of ultra marathons.

 

　　Todd: Yeah, I mean what has the book talked about?

 

　　Julia: The book talks about this very old tribe who can run for days.

 

　　Todd: Days?

 

　　Julia: Like days, yeah, and some of the members of this tribe are already in their eighties and nineties and they scale mountains and they have a very frugal¹ diet. They run barefoot.

 

　　Todd: Barefoot?

 

　　Julia: They run barefoot.

 

　　Todd: In the desert, on rocks?

 

　　Julia: In the desert yeah, yeah.

 

　　Todd: Wow.

 

　　Julia: And they are bought, like they run from, well from they don't, as soon as they learn to walk they're running and they run their whole lives and they run like a hundred miles is just like a walk in the park to them. They just...

 

　　Todd: That's insane.

 

　　Julia: At speed, at speed, at very high speeds.

 

　　Todd: I mean do they have some secret, some traditional secret?

 

　　Julia: Well, yeah, they do, they're a very mystical tribe and they're not that well known. This, the book is written by a journalist who investigates and he records his story of how he gets to meet, just even finding them and meeting them is a huge ordeal² in itself.

 

　　Todd: Because I mean physiologically³ it sounds like that's impossible. Like the human body can only run so far because it needs water, it needs food, it needs rest.

 

　　Julia: Well, I don't know. I think part of the philosophy of the book is that we're limited by our belief in that and that in fact this tribe don't have that belief, therefore they don't have those limits. They kinda surpassed those limits simply by they just do it. Nobody told them they couldn't so they...

 

　　Todd: They just do it.

 

　　Julia: Nobody told them they needed a pair of, you know, hundred dollar shoes in order to run. They just run, it's like it's a natural human thing and it's like an atavistic thing.

 

　　Todd: Wow.

 

　　Julia: You know humans, we can run down gazelle, we can run faster than hor..., I mean we can run further than horses and these creatures, creatures that we think have a running ability.

 

　　Todd: Are you sure about that?

 

　　Julia: Absolutely, yeah, yeah.

 

　　Todd: Really?

 

　　Julia: Yeah.

 

　　Todd: I've never, I've never heard that before that...

 

　　Julia: That's why, you know people who, it's quite dangerous to run with a dog for example. People who run and take the dogs because dogs can't run as far as humans.

 

　　Todd: Really?

 

　　Julia: Yeah. And dogs can't sweat. Humans can run and run and run for days, that's how they, that's how they killed prey⁴ when we were in the cave.

 

　　Todd: Before we gave up?

 

　　Julia: No, you can outrun an antelope⁵ because an antelope can only have short sharp bursts of speed.

 

　　Todd: Ah.

 

　　Julia: But a pack of humans can run down any animal on the planet.

 

　　Todd: That's good to know. If I ever need to kill an antelope...

 

　　Julia: Well yeah obviously you can't just, you know, stick your shoes on and set off and...

 

　　Todd: Wow, good stuff though. So, but would you like to try it some day, try one of these ultra marathons?

 

　　Julia: I think it's good to have a goal but I like training for these kind of things and ultra marathon, I just mentally, I don't know I have that ability to run for that far and that long. I'd like to have, yeah, I'd like to try and develop that stamina⁶.

 

　　Todd: Yeah. I think we, maybe in my younger days but...

 

　　Julia: No, I don't think you do.

 

　　Todd: Or in another life but...

 

　　Julia: I think.

 

　　Todd: I'm gonna pass.

 

　　Julia: I think that running actually requires a lot of maturity⁷ so the older you get the better you are at running because you give up on stuff when you are young and your brain's quite, you know, you can't concentrate. You learn concentration and discipline and they come with age and maturity so I think we get better runners as we get older. That's what I'm banking⁸ on anyway.

 

　　Todd: Yeah, me too. I got that on my side.

1 frugal   

adj.节俭的，节约的，少量的，微量的

参考例句：

• He was a VIP,but he had a frugal life.他是位要人，但生活俭朴。
• The old woman is frugal to the extreme.那老妇人节约到了极点。

2 ordeal   

n.苦难经历，（尤指对品格、耐力的）严峻考验

参考例句：

• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
• Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。

3 physiologically   

ad.生理上，在生理学上

参考例句：

• Therefore, the liver and gallbladder cannot be completely separated physiologically and pathologically. 因此，肝胆在生理和病理上不能完全分离。
• Therefore, the liver and gallbladder are closely related physiologically and pathologically. 因此，肝胆在生理和病理上紧密联系。

4 prey   

n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨

参考例句：

• Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
• The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。

5 antelope   

n.羚羊；羚羊皮

参考例句：

• Choosing the antelope shows that China wants a Green Olympics.选择藏羚羊表示中国需要绿色奥运。
• The tiger was dragging the antelope across the field.老虎拖着羚羊穿过原野。

6 stamina   

n.体力；精力；耐力

参考例句：

• I lacked the stamina to run the whole length of the race.我没有跑完全程的耐力。
• Giving up smoking had a magical effect on his stamina.戒烟神奇地增强了他的体力。

7 maturity   

n.成熟；完成；(支票、债券等)到期

参考例句：

• These plants ought to reach maturity after five years.这些植物五年后就该长成了。
• This is the period at which the body attains maturity.这是身体发育成熟的时期。

8 banking   

n.银行业，银行学，金融业

参考例句：

• John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
• He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。