http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_16 15754_1616166,00.html （http://0rz.pixnet.tw/5c2CW ） The TIME 100 - HEROS & PIONEERS Thierry Henry By Tony Parker Rapide. That's the first word that comes to mind when I watch my fellow Frenchman and good friend Thierry Henry on the soccer pitch. Fast. I love it when he takes the ball and darts downfield for 30 yards, making one, two, three defenders fall as they chase him. He's breaking ankles out there. Every time he touches the ball, you know he's going to do something crazy—maybe something you've never seen before. Rapide，这是我看到我的同胞和好友 Thierry Henry 踢足球时，脑中第一个浮现的字眼 。快。我喜欢看他带球狂奔30码，让一个、两个、三个後卫摔倒，他让他们看起来像中了 果酱腿恶咒一样。每次他触球，你都会猜想他要做些疯狂的事情，很可能是前所未见的那 种。 But Thierry, 29, is so much more than a great soccer player who helped France reach last year's World Cup final and who has led his English club team, Arsenal, to four national-cup wins. He wants to change the world. It's no secret that European soccer is fighting a racism problem, in the crowd and on the field, and no player has done more to exorcise it than Thierry. After cameras caught Spain's national coach using a racist slur to describe Thierry in 2004, he could have lost his cool. Instead, Thierry, who is always steady, recruited a host of fellow soccer stars to launch his Stand Up Speak Up campaign, which raised millions of dollars and unprecedented awareness to fight racism. We talk about the problem all the time. Racism bothers him so much, but he wanted to attack it in a measured, professional manner. Given his upbringing in the ethnically diverse housing projects southwest of Paris, no one can speak out against intolerance better than Thierry. His impact has been immense. Sure, racism hasn't entirely disappeared from the soccer landscape, but you can sense it fading a bit. You've got to give Thierry some credit for this change. 29岁的 Thierry 帮助法国队打进去年世界盃决赛，也带领他的英国球队兵工厂赢得四个 国内盃赛冠军，但是他不仅仅是个伟大的足球员而已。他想要改变这世界。欧洲足坛一 直充满种族歧视问题，不管是在球场上还是看台上，而为了对抗种族歧视， Thierry 做 的比谁都多。2004年当场边摄影机逮到西班牙队教练用种族歧视的字眼污辱 Thierry， 他本可大发雷霆，但总是很沉着的 Thierry 号召了一些足球明星举办Stand Up Speak Up 活动，这项活动募得了好几百万元，也带起一股前所未有的对抗种族歧视的风潮。我们常 常讨论这个议题，种族歧视总是令他感到困扰，但他想要用慎重而高水准的方式反击。因 为他成长於多种族的巴黎西南方，没有人比他更有资格站出来对抗这些令人无法容忍的事 情。他的影响力是很巨大的。当然，种族歧视并没有完全消失在足球圈中，但你可以感觉 到情况已经有所改善。因此你得给 Thierry 一点掌声。 My favorite athlete when I was growing up was Michael Jordan, because of the supreme confidence and control he displayed on the floor. Then I started watching Thierry play soccer, and you could see the same sureness in his eyes. I try to copy his approach on the basketball court, and I think everyone can learn that lesson from Thierry: be intense yet unflappable. Just don't count on being as fast. 我小时候最喜欢的运动员是 Michael Jordan，因为他能在球场上表现出无比的信心和技 术。然後我开始看 Thierry 踢足球，你可以在他眼中看到一样的决心。我试着在篮球场 上模仿他，我想每个人都可以从 Thierry 身上学到一课：热情而不慌张。不过要像他一 样快可就没那麽简单了。 === Parker, captain of the French national basketball team, has won two NBA championships as a point guard with the San Antonio Spurs Parker是法国国家篮球队的队长，圣安东尼奥马刺队的控球後卫，曾两次获得NBA冠军。 -- 按：我想Parker说的"four national-cup wins"应该是02年和04年的英超冠军，以及 02年和03年的足总盃冠军，05年决赛亨利没上场，而且那年他只打了一场。 （不清楚要上几场才算赢得奖盃） （这篇翻的不是很好，请见谅） --

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