万花筒 2011-05-20&05-22 NBA太阳队总裁韦尔茨公开同性恋倾向

 So why now? It’s the question everybody wants to know, why did you wait this long and was there something specific about the sports world that forced you to keep this inside. 

 

Well, for me it was a long, it’s a combination of long personal journey, you know, really it wasn’t this moment and time today sitting here with you that I was really, I thought prepared to do that and certainly the fear that drove that was that, if that effect aspect of my life became public, that would limit my ability to follow what was really my passion to be a part of team sports to be part of everything that I love about it and I was concerned that disclosure could limit what I would be able to do my career.

 

What was it that you thought in the locker¹ room in the executive suite² in this sort of psychology³ of the NBA that persuaded you that you couldn’t be openly gay and successful in that arena⁴. 

 

Well,certainly nothing unique to the NBA and nothing that I would ever characterize a hustle⁵ environment of any kind. There is just what I’ve kind of turned a conspiracy⁶ of silence where just a topic that’s not discussed. It’s just nothing that it is comfortable to be a part of our working environment, you konw totally outstepped probably was where I said today, but it’s still exist.

 

That’s what I wanted to pursue why is sports world out of step, because in other environments, legal profession, the acting⁷ profession, the arts the science,academia, there don’t seem to be these in the additions yet, sports it is so much as you would felt day and day out, part of that culture, why?

 

You know, it’s interesting that those you said it’s no big deal what I’ve done, but I don't think I be here sitting with you today if it wasn’t a big deal.

1 locker   

n.更衣箱，储物柜，冷藏室，上锁的人

参考例句：

• At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
• He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。

2 suite   

n.一套(家具)；套房；随从人员

参考例句：

• She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
• That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。

3 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

4 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。

5 hustle   

v.推搡；竭力兜售或获取；催促；n.奔忙(碌)

参考例句：

• It seems that he enjoys the hustle and bustle of life in the big city.看起来他似乎很喜欢大城市的热闹繁忙的生活。
• I had to hustle through the crowded street.我不得不挤过拥挤的街道。

6 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。