这是今天纽时的文章，我试着翻翻看罗！欢迎有英文强者随时更正。 Young Blood Makes Yankees Rush Into First By WILLIAM C. RHODEN Baltimore 热血新秀将洋基推上顶峰 By WILLIAM C. RHODEN 巴尔第摩电 WHEN you go to the Yankees' Web site on mlb.com and click on Aaron Small's biography, you get this message: "There is no biography available at this time. Please try again at a later date." 当你兴冲冲的来到洋基官网查询小先生的传奇事蹟时，你会得到这段话：「哪有什麽 传奇，晚点再来看看吧你。」 That later date is now. Small is compiling a living baseball biography that has grown like a weed since Sept. 3, when he was pressed into the rotation again because of Mike Mussina's troubled elbow. Three weeks later, Small is the Yankee of the hour. Thursday night, the 33-year-old Small, who was virtually a career minor leaguer, extended his record to 10-0 as the Yankees defeated Baltimore, 8-4. 所谓的晚点就是现在，小先生正用他活生生的事蹟撰写属於他的传奇历史，这历史宛如 小草成长的故事（跟着我一起唱：大风起把头摇一摇, 风停了又挺直腰,大雨来弯着背 让雨浇, 雨停了抬起头站直脚,不怕风不怕雨,立志要长高,小草实在是并不小.），这故 事始於九月三日小先生因为穆西纳受伤而被放进轮值表中开始，三个礼拜後，小先生成 为一时之选的洋基人，星期四晚间，这位三十三岁在小联盟载浮载沈的投手，将个人新 纪录推向十胜零败，带领洋基以 8-4 打败金莺。 Faced with problems that money could not solve, the Yankees tapped into a midseason youth movement. A $200 million payroll - the highest in baseball - has been bailed out by a crew of young bloods: Robinson Cano, Shawn Chacon, Andy Phillips, Bubba Crosby and Chien-Ming Wang. 有很多问题是金钱无法解决的，洋基今年球季中开始有了脱胎换骨的汰旧换新。这只年 薪超过两亿美金的球队（全大联盟最高），竟被一票名不见经传的新人从泥沼中拯救 出来，包含了卡若、查康、非力普、客螺丝比以及小王。 Where would the Yankees' money boat be without them? Not here, I assure you. 如果洋基这艘金砖打造的豪华邮轮没有这群小将，将航向哪呢？我赶打包票绝对不是现 在这条往季後赛之路。 Small said that when he was called up in July, he expected to be up for one start and one start only. "My thinking was, 'Let me go do well enough so I can stick around and go to the bullpen, if nothing else,' " he said. "From then on, I've just taken that same approach." 当小先生在七月被升上大联盟之时，他被派出场先发，而且他预期这也是唯一的一场 ，「我的想法是让我做好我分内的事，或许我就可以待在牛棚，所以从那时起，我只 是尽我的本分而已。」小先生说道。 Go back to April 30 at Yankee Stadium, when everyone was ready to jump off a bridge. The Yankees' boat was listing badly, in desperate need of a stabilizing force. That day, the force was Wang, the 25-year-old pitcher fresh from Class AAA Columbus. Wang was perfect through three innings and had a shutout through four. He wound up pitching seven innings, allowing two runs in the Yankees' 4-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. 时间回溯到四月三十号的洋基球场，那时洋基这艘豪华邮轮已经大幅度倾斜，亟需要一股 稳定船身的力量，那一股力量就是王，一位年仅二十五岁的3A哥伦布队投手，王在那天投 出了三局的完全比赛，并在前四局封锁对方得分，他七局的投球只失两分，最终洋基以 4-3赢得对蓝鸟的胜利。 When Mussina was injured earlier this month, Small stepped in and came through, shutting out the A's on Sept. 3. Now Small will replace Jaret Wright in the starting rotation. 当穆西纳在这个月初受伤之後，小先生担起重任，九月三号对运动家的完封表现，如今 小先生将取代莱特成为先发轮值的一员。 Small may have some great moments this fall. But the moment that framed his season and underlined the spirit that has energized the Yankees took place earlier this month when he received the first standing ovation of his career after a strong performance against Boston. 在这个秋季，小先生拥有许多的惊奇，但最令人津津乐道、激起洋基斗志，并带领球队来 到首位的是他在生涯首次面对红袜时所展现的亮眼表现。 After the game, he told reporters: "I just felt a little weak in the legs, I guess you could say. I'm just so thankful for it. I appreciate the Yankees giving me this opportunity, and I thank God for the opportunity. He's blessing me. This is fun. I just can't put it into words." 在这场比赛後，他告诉记者：「我想你会说我吓得得双脚发软，但我很感谢有这麽一 场比赛，很感谢洋基给我这次机会，感谢上帝给我这次机会，我想祂在保佑我（怕啥， 你有上帝，王有观世音），这经验充满乐趣，我一言难尽。」 When Small first came up, his wife, home in Tennessee, would watch Yankees games at their church because the church had cable and the family did not. Three weeks ago, Small was confident enough with his status that he called DirecTV and ordered a subscription. "I told her, 'Go ahead and throw fifty bucks there, it'll be worth it,' " he said. 当小先生第一次上场时，家在田纳西州的老婆，只能在教堂欣赏这场比赛，因为教堂 有有线电视，而小先生的家连第四台都没有。三个礼拜前，小先生家中装了第四台， 我告诉我老婆：「冲吧！丢个五十块美金给第四台业者，相信我这一定值得」。 Fresh blood has energized the Yankees. Players like Cano, Chacon, Small and Wang has given the Yankees a sense of humility and a spark that may very well catapult them past the Red Sox. 这批新血重新点燃了洋基的热情，像是卡若、查康、小先生、小王他们告诉洋基什麽是 谦卑，且告诉红袜将有闪亮的火光射向他们。 I spoke with Alex Rodriguez the other day about the balance between hungry enthusiasm and veteran lethargy. He said that before he became A-Rod, he had the unabashed hunger - like Chacon, Small and Cano - to succeed, to prove himself. 笔者曾在某一天与A-Rod谈到关於「新手无止境的热情」与「老手的了无生气」中间的平 衡点，他说在他成为众所周知的A-Rod之前，他有着无与伦比求知若饥的精神，就像这群 小伙子查康、小先生、卡若一样，不断地想成功，想证明自己。 "When I was a young player coming up prior to any big contract, the motivation is, 'Hey, you're in the big leagues,' " he said. "I didn't give a damn if we were 50 games out: I'm in the big leagues and at the end of the day, I'm playing for a contract. I got to support my family back in Miami. S0 early on, you don't even look at stats, you don't look at standings - all you care about is, let me produce." 他接着说：「当我还是个没有天价合约的新手时，我透过告诉自己我身在大联盟来激励 自己，在球队五十连败时我不会只顾着咒骂，我会想我身在大联盟，每一天的比赛结束 只是证明自己身价的过程，我必须要养那远在迈阿密的家庭，所以我从不在意那些统计 数字，从不看那些计分表，因为我所想的是--让我来创造这些数字。 The challenge for the young Yankees over the next few years will be balancing success with motivation after the blush of enthusiasm that has carried them this season wears off. 未来几年对於这些年轻新秀的挑战，将是在如今带领他们大步向前的热情消失之时，那如 何继续迈向成功的动机。 "I found it always more challenging, as my status grew in the game, that I felt people came at me harder," Rodriguez said. "I enjoyed that, but it became harder to maintain a level of high consistency." 「我发现挑战永远都在，当我的成绩逐步攀升之时，人们对我的期望也越高。我很享受 这样的过程，但你很难一直都维持在顶峰」 The new Yankees players are seasons away from A-Rod stature - though maybe not that far, after all. The Yankees face a tough three-game series in Boston beginning Friday night and, depending on how that goes, a grueling postseason. 这群新洋基人或许还离A-rod很遥远（说不定不远），总之，洋基正面临关键的三连战， 从星期五在芬威球场与红袜相遇开始，或许将带领他们面临严苛的季後赛。 If there is a one-game playoff Monday, Chacon will pitch for the Yankees. There's no way he could have imagined this situation earlier this season when he was struggling with the Colorado Rockies. 如果下星期一将有一场季後赛，那麽查康将会为洋基先锋，这是他在本季前待在落矶队 奋战时无法想像的（曹锦辉加油！带领落矶进季後赛吧！）。 "Not a chance," he said recently. "Not when the season started." 查康说：「当本季刚开始时，我想都没想过我有机会投季後赛」 Small and Chacon are not the only ones who had trouble envisioning this sort of ending. Joe Torre can't believe it either. Before Thursday night's game against the Orioles, he spoke about the Yankees' veteran team and looked at who would be carrying the team down the stretch. 小先生和查康不会是面临这样难缠情况的唯二，在星期四晚间面对金莺之前。连 Joe Torre也无法相信，在Torre与洋基这支老经验球队训话时，Torre环顾四周找寻那 可以带领球队直闯季後赛的人选。 "I sit back and think, here we are, we have five games to go in the season and we're tied for first place and our next three starters are Chacon, Small and Wang," Torre said. "That says it all. It's something you certainly could never have imagined during the course of the year. But for the Yankees, especially, to bring in Wang and bring in Cano, I know in my 10 years here, we've never had youngsters be a main part of what we're doing." 「我坐下来并思考着，我们还有五场比赛要打，且一二名之差如此之近，我们接下来的 三场先发分别是查康、小先生和王建民。我想这说明了一切，这是你在季初绝对无法想 像的，但对洋基而言，很特别地，我们有了小王和卡若，在过去的十年，我们没有任何 新星像他们两个一样身负重任。」 Nothing will ever stop fans outside the Yankees' empire from resenting a franchise that buys everything it wants. But Small, Chacon, Cano and Wang have taken the edge off the hating. 没有任何事可以阻止在洋基王朝外的球迷怨恨洋基用钱买进所有他想要的一切，但小先 生、查康、卡若、小王却在这怨念之外另创一片天。（最後一句不知道怎麽翻，欢迎指 教） ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 呼，终於翻完，好累... 睡觉去，期待一大早王建民的好表现～ --

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