访谈录 2013-05-21&05-23 网坛美女莎拉波娃专访

Arriving French Open Champion, Maria Sharapova is clearly in the d* focused on defending her fisrt ever Roland Garros crown¹. The world number two had always struggled on the clay until she found * a year ago and rise to the title.

-I do enjoy a little bit more now, just because I feel like I work on that aspect of my game and I really improved and now I feel I don't have any excuses. When I get to the court and when I'm moving around, like just because I don't feel great one day, I can't, you know, I can't really won about it, because at the end of the day I did win the French Champion. So after, my myself * times.

The French Open, when kicked off back a year, for * Sharapova briefly² regain³ the world number one ranking, win the silver medal for Russia at London Olympics and be n* for the most successful female⁴ athlete.

-I do make, you know, great money for a living and, you know, for one who wanna play tennis again, have enough money to live for the rest of my life, but I do respect the money that I've made because I didn't grow up having a lot of money. It's so important to be able to look back those days and think, you know, I really came from nothing. You know, we had a dream and I had a talent and we moved to the United States.

Her hard work paid off, when she astounded⁵ the world and won Wimbledon in 2004. Grand Slam⁶ titles followed, the US Open in 2006 and Australia Open in 2008. In 2012, Sharapova won the French Open and completed a career slam.

-I don't know, it's lucky or if it just things follow to play, so the four Grand Slams⁷ I won, or all four of them, that were different. You know, who knows what the future will bring me and who knows what I may add to that list, but so far I can say that, yeah, I'm pretty fortunate to be one of the few that has achieved that.

1 crown   

n.王冠，王权，顶点；v.使...成王，加冕，居...之顶

参考例句：

• He won the crown in 1973.他荣获1973年冠军称号。
• They wanted to crown Caesar king.他们想立凯撒为王。

2 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

3 regain   

vt.重新获得，收复，恢复

参考例句：

• He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
• The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。

4 female   

adj.雌的，女(性)的；n.雌性的动物，女子

参考例句：

• We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
• The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。

5 astounded   

v.使震惊(astound的过去式和过去分词)；愕然；愕；惊讶

参考例句：

• His arrogance astounded her. 他的傲慢使她震惊。
• How can you say that? I'm absolutely astounded. 你怎么能说出那种话？我感到大为震惊。

6 slam   

v.猛力地推、放或扔；砰地关上

参考例句：

• They were surprised by the slam of a car door.关汽车门时发出的声音使他们很吃惊。
• Why should you slam the window?你干吗要使劲关窗户呢？

7 slams   

v.砰地关上（门或窗）( slam的第三人称单数 )；用力一放；使劲一推；猛劲一摔

参考例句：

• I'm sick of your slams. 对于你的谩骂我真受够了。 来自辞典例句
• Kentucky steal Ball and Ron Mercen slams for two. 肯塔基队争到球，罗恩默塞扣篮得2分。 来自互联网