华尔街中级英语Lesson 39

 What sort of training does a professional footballer undergo¹ during a typical week?  If you are playing a top club, then the training is going to be very intense².  The manager or the coach will have observe the other team, come back with lots of notes and there will be lots of little plans about how to counter that man this man.  Their long ball approach in another words, technique, tactics³ and that’s what the whole thing will be about.  Looking at the players for a moment.  They seems to start very, very young.  They become professional almost when they’ve left school, don't they?  They do, in fact, yes.  And most clubs would tell you that the young players are the most important players because they are the future of the game.  The potential is there.  And so if you could get them the age of thirteen, fourteen or fifteen, then you could move them into the game you want to play.  Whether  it is the game they want to play it’s doesn’t matter.  Because again I’m go back to the point that winning is all important and so much of that creative flare⁴ that you could saw in the early days that you saw in forties and fifties has gone.  and I think that’s very sad, indeed. 
     What does a footballer do when he retires?  Because they retire very young, maybe before there are 30 years old.  In the past, many of them chose to stay in the game, perhaps on the training side, coaching side.  There are courses that they can go on.  That is not quite so true today.  Largely⁵ because of the nature of the game.  And also because I think players see the way the game is going and decide” no. there is no way”  that I want to be part of management in football today.  I wouldn’t want to be a manager.  And they often point out their own manager.  Jokingly saying:” I wouldn’t want to be like him and  have has problems”  so many of them leave the game.  And many of them end up running pubs⁶. That’s a popular in past time for footballers running the pubs.  And also many of them use their sporting ability and work for sports organizations, selling shoes or sporting equipment or associating with golf clubs and things like that.  Many of them try to stay with sports, but not necessarily⁷ football.

1 undergo   

vt.经历，经受，忍受

参考例句：

• The planes have to undergo rigorous safety checks.飞机必须经过严密的安全检查。
• The explorers had to undergo much suffering.探险者不得不忍受很多困苦。

2 intense   

adj.认真的，专注的；强烈的；紧张的；热情的

参考例句：

• Susan was an intense young lady.苏珊是一个热情的年轻姑娘。
• The quarrel caused her intense unhappiness.争吵令她极其不快。

3 tactics   

n.策略；战术，兵法

参考例句：

• They planned the tactics for the next day's battle.他们制定好第二天的战术。
• He decided to switch tactics.他决定改变策略。

4 flare   

v.闪耀，闪烁；n.潮红；突发

参考例句：

• The match gave a flare.火柴发出闪光。
• You need not flare up merely because I mentioned your work.你大可不必因为我提到你的工作就动怒。

5 largely   

adv.大部分，主要地

参考例句：

• It is largely dependent on the weather.这多半取决于天气情况。
• Their conclusions were largely founded on guesswork.他们的结论大部份基于猜测。

6 pubs   

酒店，酒馆( pub的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• I don't like pubs.They're noisy, smelly, and what's more, expensive. 我不喜欢酒吧。那里又吵，气味又难闻，更重要的是，花费太多。
• We did/went the rounds of all the pubs in town. 我们逐一光顾了城里所有的酒店。

7 necessarily   

adv.必要地，必需地；必定地，必然地

参考例句：

• More work does not necessarily call for more men.增加工作量不一定就要增添人员。
• A voter must necessarily be no younger than eighteen.选民必须在18岁以上。