Michelle Wie: A Name Stunning the Golf World（在线收听）

Michelle Wie: A Name Stunning the Golf World

  Fourteen-year-old Michelle Wie is already a major celebrity in the golf world, a prodigy who seems ¹⁾destined to become the Tiger Woods of the Ladies' tour, the best woman player ever. But Michelle Wie wants to compete against men, and she's already proved she can do it.

Interviewer: What's your ²⁾ultimate goal?

Wie: Well, I think my ultimate goal is probably "The Masters." Uhm, I think it'd be pretty neat walking down The Masters' ³⁾fairways.

Interviewer: Like to win it?

Wie: Yeah, I'd love to. It's a...

Interviewer: You seem to really want to ⁴⁾push the envelope.

Wie: What does that mean?

Interviewer: What does that mean?

Wie: Yeah.

Interviewer: That means go as far and as fast as you can.

Wie: Yeah. I mean, I like fast, and I like, I like, uhm, challenges. And I think that the faster you get there, then...there's somebody at, always...I also, I have to be the first to do everything, and I just want to be the best, so...

Interviewer: ⁵⁾And when did you start to beat your parents?

Wie: Oh, I think I started beating them when I was seven or eight, but they say I started beating them when I was nine, but I refuse to believe that.

Interviewer: So, who's pushed you more in your game, your mom or your dad?

Wie: Uhm, I don't know. I guess my mom, but I wouldn't really call it pushing because they didn't really push me. I'm much more self-⁶⁾motivated.

  Michelle's game is now in the hands of one of the best instructors in the business, David Leadbetter, who has coached the likes of ⁷⁾Ernie Els and ⁸⁾Nick Price. 

David: I mean, if she was a pianist, you'd see a pianist practicing eight hours a day, and somebody who loves what they do—and she really loves the game, she's got a real passion for it.

Interviewer: Do you think she could conceivably play and make, make a living on the Men's Tour?

David: If she continues at the present rate, I’d say yes. You'd have to say that, potentially, she could do it and I ⁹⁾wouldn't put it past her. I mean she's a very, very competitive girl.

Interviewer: You could turn pro tomorrow and be rich and famous. Do you worry that people's expectations, that now it's expected of you that now you’re going to go out and win ¹⁰⁾tournaments on the Men's Tour, and that you're going to be the best woman golfer ever, and qualify for "The Masters" and...Do those expectations bother you?

Wie: No, they don't really bother me because they're expectations of what I want to do, so I just have to...I just take one expectation at a time, just take it day by day, and then, I don't know, hopefully, it'll all work out, and I don’t really feel it as a bother because that's what I want to do.

注释：

1) destined [5destind] a. 命中注定的，预定的

2) ultimate [5Qltimit] a. 最终的，最后的

3) fairway [5fZE7wei] n. （高尔夫球场上的）平坦球道

4) push the envelope 突破极限

5) And when did you start to beat your parents? 魏圣美的父母都是高尔夫球好手，两人都多次获得业余高尔夫球赛冠军，因此记者会这样发问。

6) motivated [5mEutiveitid] a. 有动机的，由……推动的

7) Ernie Els 厄尼·艾尔斯，南非著名高尔夫球手，现世界排名第三

8) Nick Price 尼克·普莱斯，津巴布韦高尔夫名将

9) not put it past sb.(to do sth.) <口>认为某人很有可能（做某事）

10) tournament [5tuEnEmEnt] n. 锦标赛，联赛