新视野第二册课文第五单元翻译
第五单元
我女儿抽烟。
她做作业时，脚搁在前面的长凳上，计算器嗒嗒地跳出几何题的答案。
我看着那包已抽了一半、她随意扔在手边的“骆驼”牌香烟。
我拿起香烟，走到厨房里去仔细察看，那里的光线好一点──谢天谢地，香烟是有过滤嘴的。
我心里十分难过。
我想哭。
事实上，我确实哭过。
我站在炉子旁边，手里捏着一支雪白的香烟，制作得非常精致，但那可是会致我女儿于死地的东西啊。
当她抽“万宝路”及“普雷厄尔”牌香烟时，我硬起心肠，不让自己感到难过。
我认识的人当中没有人抽这两种牌子的香烟。
她不知道我父亲、也就是她外公生前抽的就是“骆驼”牌香烟。
但是在他开始抽机制卷烟之前──那时他很年轻、也很穷，眼睛炯炯有神──他抽的是用“阿尔伯特亲王牌”烟丝自己手工卷的香烟。
我还记得那鲜红的烟丝盒，上面有一张维多利亚女王丈夫阿尔伯特亲王的照片，他身穿黑色燕尾服，手里拿着一支手杖。
到40年代末、50年代初，我的家乡佐治亚州的伊腾顿已没有人再自己手工卷烟了（而且几乎没有女人抽烟）。
烟草业，再加上好莱坞电影──影片中的男女主角都是烟鬼──把像我父亲这样的人完完全全争取了过去，他们无可救药地抽烟抽上了瘾。
然而我父亲从来就没有像阿尔伯特亲王那样时髦过。
他还是一个贫穷、过于肥胖、为养活一大家人而拼命干活的男人。
他是黑人，嘴里却总叼着一支雪白的香烟。
我记不清父亲是什么时候开始咳嗽的。
也许开始时并不明显，只是早晨一下床点燃第一支香烟时才有点微咳。
到我16岁，也就是我女儿现在这般年纪时，他一呼吸就呼哧呼哧的，让人感到不安；他上楼时每走三、四级楼梯就得停下来休息一会儿，
而且，他常常一连咳上一个小时。
肺部的病痛把我父亲折磨得虚弱不堪，一个严冬，他死于被称为“穷人之友” 的疾病──肺炎。
他咳嗽了这么多年，我想他的肺部已没有什么完好的地方了。
去世前几年，他的呼吸已经很虚弱了，他总得倚靠着某个东西。
我记得有一次全家聚会，当时我女儿才两岁，他抱了她一会儿，好让我有时间给他俩拍张照片。
但是很明显，他是费了好大劲儿的。
生命行将结束前，他才戒了烟，主要是因为他的肺功能已极度受损。
戒烟后他的体重增加了几磅，但当时他太瘦了，所以没人注意到这一点。
我到第三世界国家去旅行时，看到了许多像我父亲和女儿那样的人。
到处都有针对他们这两类人的巨大广告牌：强壮、自信或时髦的成熟男人，以及漂亮、“世故”的年青女子，都在吞云吐雾。
就像在美国的旧城区和印第安人的居留地上一样，在这些贫困的国家里，那些本应该花在食物上的钱却流进了烟草公司。
久而久之，人们不但缺少食物，而且还缺少空气，这样不
但大大地损害了孩子们的体质，还使他们染上了烟瘾，最终还会致他们于死地。
我在报纸还有我订阅的园艺杂志上看到，烟蒂的毒性很强：一个婴儿如果吞下了一个烟蒂，就很有可能会死去，而沸水加一把烟蒂就成了很有效的杀虫剂。
作为母亲，我深深地感到痛苦。
有时我有一种无能为力的感觉。
我记得自己怀孕时，吃东西的时候是多么小心啊！之后在教她如何安全穿过马路时，又是多么耐心啊！
有时我纳闷：自己这样做到底是为了什么？难道是为了她今后大半辈子有气无力地挣扎着呼吸，然后再像她外公那样自己把自己毒死吗？
我特别喜欢一条写在受虐妇女收容所里的语录：“人间和平，始于家庭。
”
我认为世上所有的东西都是如此。
我还想起了另一条写给那些想戒烟的人们的语录：“每个家庭都应该是禁烟区。
”
抽烟是一种自我毁灭，而且也毁灭着那些不得不坐在你身边的人。
那些人偶尔也会取笑或抱怨你抽烟，可常常只能无可奈何地坐在一边看。
我现在意识到，从我还是个孩子起，这些年来我实际上是一直坐在旁边，看着我父亲自杀。
对那些生意兴隆的烟草公司的巨头们来说，能在我家取得这样一种胜利，肯定是够满意了。
(完整word版)新视野大学英语第三版读写教程第二册Unit5翻译
U5 ACliff Young, an unlikely hero克里夫•杨，令人意想不到的英雄Considered one of the toughest marathon events in the world, the 875-kilometer annual Australian race, a route from Sydney to Melbourne, is a harsh test of endurance for the world’s top athletes, regardless of their age. The young, super-fit runners train for months before a competition and are under contract to prominent sponsors like Nike and Adidas, who finance them and furnish them with a substantial support mechanism of money and equipment. The contest takes up to seven days to complete and is a challenging test of fitness and strength even for world-class athletes who compete for distinction and a cash prize.澳大利亚一年一度的悉尼至墨尔本的马拉松比赛全长875 公里，被认为是世界上最艰难的马拉松赛事之一，对任何年龄段的世界顶尖运动员来说都是一项严酷的耐力考验。
体能超好的年轻选手在赛前要进行数月的训练，而且还和像耐克和阿迪达斯这样著名的赞助商签约，这些赞助商通过强大的资金和装备支持机制为选手提供资助和装备。
新视野大学英语读写教程2 unit5 课文翻译
Section A Spend or save –The student’s dilemma花钱还是存钱，学生进退维谷1 你是不是跟我一样对“我应该花钱还是存钱”这个问题感到困惑，且有被操纵的感觉？我觉得我们从生活的环境里所获得的信息似乎是有违常识、互相矛盾的。
政府告诉我们要花钱，否则我们将永远走不出衰退；与此同时，他们又告诉我们，除非我们节省更多的钱，否则我们的国家会处于严重危险之中。
银行提供较高的利率以增加储蓄。
然后，同样是这些银行又提供信用卡让我们可以花更多的钱。
2 这里还有一个大家熟悉的例子：如果我们不按时支付信用卡账单，我们会收到从信用卡公司发来的类似这样的令人讨厌的催缴账单的电子邮件：不还款是不可接受的。
请立即缴付，否则后果自负！之后，一旦还款，我们就会收到一封跟进的电子邮件，语气和蔼可亲，说我们是多么宝贵的客户，并鼓励我们继续花钱。
到底哪一个描述是正确的？有麻烦的失败消费者还是宝贵的客户？这两者之间可是天壤之别！3 自相矛盾的情况还有，我们每天都收到彼此相左的两种信息。
一种从“纵容”的角度，让我们“买东西，花钱，现在就得到它。
你需要这个！”另外一种，我们可称之为“正直”的信息，它力劝我们：“努力工作，把钱存起来。
控制你的欲望，不要买奢侈品，不要垂涎那些你并不真正需要的东西。
”这类信息来源甚多，有学校方面的，有家长方面的，甚至还来自提及传统价值观的政治人物。
艰苦创业、忠于家庭、能推迟欲望是美国价值观的核心，它使我们的国家变得强大。
4 但相反的信息，即那些纵容人们不断花钱的广告，无所不在。
虽然此类信息有时经过了乔装打扮，但仍随处可见，电视、电影、印刷媒介和路牌、商店，及公共汽车、火车和地铁上，比比皆是。
广告侵入了我们的日常生活。
我们时时被包围在花钱，花钱，花钱的信息中。
最近有人说：“唯一可以逃脱广告的时候是当在床上睡着时！”5 据计算，普通的美国人到18岁时，会看过60万则广告；到40岁时，看过的广告总数近百万。
新视野大学英语第二版Unit5
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remember doing：记得曾做过某事
❖ I can remember doing some really, really spectacular doodles.
❖ 我记得曾经画出的涂鸦真的很棒。
❖
❖ remember to do：记得要做某事；记得去做 某事
他的挂念和关心给了我一种安心的感觉我也希望自己同样能给他带来这种安心关心给了我种安心的感觉我也希望自己同样能给他带来这种安心的感觉
Text Structure
1-2
3-12 13-15
Presenting the thesis statement:” Like most parents, Dad has always tried to protect his children.”
卫兵必须保护总统不受任何危险的侵害。
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to this day: 至今
To this day, Yellow Stone Park has remained a prized possession to the American people. 黄石公园至今仍是美国人民的宝贵财产。
❖ 没有什么是不可能的，只要你尽你所能。 所 以，试着每天尽你所能（做到最好）吧。
❖try not to do sth 试着不做某事 ; 试图不做
某事 ; 尽力不要做某事 ; 尽量不做某事
❖ Try not to do that 尽量不要那么做
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be conscious of:意识到，知道
manner.
Text A
Father Dearest
新视野大学英语(第二版)第二册(1-5单元)课文翻译
第一单元注重时间的美国人美国人认为没有人能停止不前。
如果你不求进取，你就会落伍。
这种态度造就了一个投身于研究、实验和探索的民族。
时间是美国人注意节约的两个要素之一，另一要素是劳力。
人们一直说：“只有时间才能支配我们。
”人们似乎把时间当作一个差不多是实实在在的东西来对待。
我们安排时间、节约时间、浪费时间、挤抢时间、消磨时间、缩减时间、对时间的利用作出解释；我们还要因付出时间而收取费用。
时间是一种宝贵的资源，许多人都深感人生的短暂。
时光一去不复返。
我们应当让每一分钟都过得有意义。
外国人对美国的第一印象很可能是：每个人都匆匆忙忙──常常处于压力之下。
城里人看上去总是在匆匆地赶往他们要去的地方，在商店里他们焦躁不安地指望店员能马上来为他们服务，或者为了赶快买完东西，用肘来推搡他人。
白天吃饭时人们也都匆匆忙忙，这部分地反映出这个国家的生活节奏。
人们认为工作时间是宝贵的。
在公共用餐场所，人们都等着别人尽快吃完，以便他们也能及时用餐，你还会发现司机开车很鲁莽，人们推搡着在你身边过去。
你会怀念微笑、简短的交谈以及与陌生人的随意闲聊。
不要觉得这是针对你个人的，这是因为人们都非常珍惜时间，而且也不喜欢他人“浪费”时间到不恰当的地步。
许多刚到美国的人会怀念诸如商务拜访等场合开始时的寒暄。
他们也会怀念那种一边喝茶或喝咖啡一边进行的礼节性交流，这也许是他们自己国家的一种习俗。
他们也许还会怀念在饭店或咖啡馆里谈生意时的那种轻松悠闲的交谈。
一般说来，美国人是不会在如此轻松的环境里通过长时间的闲聊来评价他们的客人的，更不用说会在增进相互间信任的过程中带他们出去吃饭，或带他们去打高尔夫球。
既然我们通常是通过工作而不是社交来评估和了解他人，我们就开门见山地谈正事。
因此，时间老是在我们心中滴滴答答地响着。
因此，我们千方百计地节约时间。
我们发明了一系列节省劳力的装置；我们通过发传真、打电话或发电子邮件与他人迅速地进行交流，而不是通过直接接触。
新视野大学英语2第五单元课文翻译
For her first twenty-four years, she'd been known as Debbie --a name that didn't suither good looks and elegant manner. "My name has always made me think I should be a cook," she complained. "I just don't feel like a Debbie."在她人生最初的24年里，人们一直叫她黛比--一个和她漂亮的容貌和优雅的风度不相配的名字。
“我的名字老是使我觉得自己应该是一个女厨子,”她抱怨道。
“我真的不想要黛比这个名字。
”One day, while filling out an application form for a publishing job, the young woman impulsively substituted her middle name, Lynne,for her first name Debbie. "That was thesmartest thing I ever did," she says now."As soon as I stopped calling myself Debbie, I felt more comfortable with myself ... and other peoplestarted to take me more seriously." Two years after her successful job interview, the former waitress is now a successful magazine editor.Friends and associates call her Lynne.一天，在填写一张申请一个出版业工作职位的表格时，这位小姐一时冲动,用她的中名林恩替换了她的名字黛比。
新视野大学英语读写教程2 第二册 原文翻译 uint1-5
Unit1 a<p1>Americans believe no one stands still.If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind.<p2>This attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching, experimenting and exploring.<p3>Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully, the other being labor.<p4>"We are slaves to nothing but the clock," it has been said.Time is treated as if it were something almost real.<p5>We <1>budget</1> it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also <2>charge</2> for it.It is a precious resource. <p6>Many people have a rather <3>acute</3> sense of the shortness of each lifetime.<p7>Once the sands have run out of a person's <4>hourglass</4>, they cannot be replaced.<p8>We want every minute to count.A foreigner's first impression of the US is likely to be that<p9> everyone is in a rush—often under pressure.City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, <p10> <6>restlessly</6> seeking attention in a store, or <7>elbowing</7> others as they try to complete their shopping.<p11>Racing through daytime meals is part of the pace of life in this country. Working time is considered precious.Others in public eating-places are waiting for you to finish so they, too, can be served and get back to work within the time allowed.You also find drivers will be <8>abrupt</8> and people will push past you.You will miss smiles, brief conversations, and small exchanges with strangers.<p12> Don't take it personally.This is because people value time highly, and they resent someone else "wasting" it beyond a certain appropriate point.<p13>Many new arrivals in the States will miss the <9>opening</9> exchanges of a business call, for example.<p14>They will miss the <10>ritual</10> <11>interaction</11> that goes with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee that may be a <12>convention</12> in their own country.They may miss <14>leisurely</14> business chats in a restaurant or coffee house.<p15>Normally, Americans do not <15>assess</15> their visitors in such relaxed <16>surroundings</16> over extended small talk; <p16>much less do they take them out for dinner, or around on the golf course while they develop a sense of trust.<p17>Since we generally assess and <17>probe</17> professionally rather than <19>socially</19>, we start talking business very quickly.<p18>Time is, therefore, always <20>ticking</20> in our inner ear.<p19><21>Consequently</21>, we work hard at the task of saving time.We produce a steady flow of labor-saving <22>devices</22>;we communicate rapidly through <23>faxes</23>, phone calls or <24>emails</24> rather than through personal contacts, which though pleasant, take longer—<p20>especially <25>given</25> our traffic-filled streets.<p21>We, therefore, save most personal visiting for after-work hours or for social weekend <26>gatherings</26>.<p22>To us the <27>impersonality</27> of <28>electronic</28> communication has little or no relation to the <29>significance</29> of the matter at hand.<p23>In some countries no major business is <30>conducted</30> without eye contact, requiring face-to-face conversation.In America, too, a final agreement will normally be signed in person.<p24>However, people are meeting <31>increasingly</31> on television screens, conducting "<33>teleconferences</33>" to settle problems not only in this country but also—by satellite—internationally.The US is definitely a telephone country.Almost everyone uses the telephone to conduct business, to chat with friends, to make or break social appointments, to say "Thank you", to shop and to <34>obtain</34> all kinds of information.Telephones save the feet and endless amounts of time.<p25>This is due partly to the fact that the telephone service is <35>superb</35> here, <36>whereas</36> the <37>postal</37> service is less <38>efficient</38>.Some new arrivals will come from cultures where it is considered <39>impolite</39> to work too quickly.<p26>Unless a certain amount of time is allowed to <40>elapse</40>, it seems in their eyes as if the task being considered were insignificant, not worthy of proper respect.<p27>Assignments are, consequently, given added weight by the passage of time.<p28>In the US, however, it is taken as a sign of <42>skillfulness</42> or being <43>competent</43> to solve a problem, or <44>fulfill</44> a job successfully, with speed.<p29>Usually, the more important a task is, the more <45>capital</45>, energy, and attention will be poured into it in order to "get it moving".美国人认为没有人能停止不前。
新视野大学英语2读写教程课本翻译(5-8单元)
新视野大学英语2读写教程课本翻译（5-8单元）Unit 5课文A花钱还是存钱,学生进退维谷1你是不是跟我一样对“我应该花钱还是存钱”这个问题感到困惑,且有被操纵的感觉?我觉得我们从生活的环境里所获得的信息似乎是有违常识、互相矛盾的。
政府告诉我们要花钱,否则我们将永远走不出衰退与此同时，他们又告诉我们，除非我们节省更多的钱,否则我们的国家会处于严重危险之中。
银行提供较高的利率以增加储蓄。
然后,同样是这些银行又提供信用卡让我们可以花更多的钱。
2这里还有一个大家熟悉的例子:如果我们不按时支付信用卡账单,我们会收到从信用卡公司发来的类似这样的令人讨厌的催缴账单的电子邮件:不还款是不可接受的。
请立即缴付,否则后果自负!之后,一旦还款;我们就会收到一封跟进的电子邮件，语气和蔼可亲,说我们是多么宝贵的客户,并鼓励我们继续花钱。
到底哪一个描述是正确的?有麻烦的失败消费者还是宝贵的客户?这两者之间可是天壤之别!3自相矛盾的情况还有,我们每天都收到彼此相左的两种信息。
一种从“纵容”的角度,让我们”买东西,花钱,现在就得到它。
你需要这个!另外一种,我们可称之为“正直”的信息,它力劝我们:“努力工作,把钱存起来。
控制你的欲望，不要买奢侈品，不要垂涎那些你并不真正需要的东西。
”这类信息来源甚多，有学校方面的,有家长方面的;甚至还来自提及传统价值观的政治人物。
艰苦创业,忠于家庭、能推迟欲望是美国价值观的核心，它使我们的国家变得强大。
4但相反的信息,即那些纵容人们不断花钱的广告,无所不在。
虽然此类信息有时经过了乔装打扮,但仍随处可见，电视、电影、印刷媒介和路牌、商店,及公共汽车、火车和地铁上，比比皆是。
广告侵入了我们的日常生活。
我们时时被包围在花钱，花钱，花钱的信息中。
最近有人说: "唯-可以逃脱广告的时候是当在床上睡着时!”5据计算,普通的美国人到18岁时，会看过60万则广告;到40岁时，看过的广告总数近百万。
每个广告都在尽最大努力影响我们形形色色的购买决定——从我们吃的早餐麦片到我们的假期将使用哪条邮轮线路。
新视野大学英语第二版第二册课文翻译 Unit 5-Section A
Unit 5Section AWeeping for My Smoking DaughterMy daughter smokes. While she is doing her homework, her feet on the bench in front of her and her calculator clicking out answers to her geometry problems, I am looking at the half-empty package of Camels tossed carelessly close at hand. I pick them up, take them into the kitchen, where the light is better, and study them — they're filtered, for which I am grateful. My heart feels terrible. I want to weep. In fact, I do weep a little, standing there by the stove holding one of the instruments, so white, so precisely rolled, that could cause my daughter's death. When she smoked Marlboros and Players I hardened myself against feeling so bad; nobody I knew ever smoked these brands.She doesn't know this, but it was Camels that my father, her grandfather, smoked. But before he smoked cigarettes made by manufacturers —when he was very young and very poor, with glowing eyes — he smoked Prince Albert tobacco in cigarettes he rolled himself. I remember the bright-red tobacco tin, with a picture of Queen Victoria's partner, Prince Albert, dressed in a black dress coat and carrying a cane.By the late forties and early fifties no one rolled his own anymore (and few women smoked) in my hometown of Eatonton, Georgia. The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won over people like my father, who were hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. He never looked as fashionable as Prince Albert, though; he continued to look like a poor, overweight, hard working colored man with too large a family, black, with a very white cigarette stuck in his mouth.I do not remember when he started to cough. Perhaps it was unnoticeable at first, a little coughing in the morning as he lit his first cigarette upon getting out of bed. By the time I was sixteen, my daughter's age, his breath was a wheeze, embarrassing to hear; he could not climb stairs without resting every third or fourth step. It was not unusual for him to cough for an hour.My father died from "the poor man's friend", pneumonia, one hard winter when his lung illnesses had left him low. I doubt he had much lung left at all, after coughing for so many years. He had so little breath that, during his last years, he was always leaning on something. I remembered once, at a family reunion, when my daughter was two, that my father picked her up for a minute — long enough for me to photograph them — but the effort was obvious. Near the very end of his life, and largely because he had no more lungs, he quit smoking. He gained a couple of pounds, but by then he was so slim that no one noticed.When I travel to Third World countries I see many people like my father and daughter. There are large advertisement signs directed at them both: the tough, confident or fashionable older man, the beautiful, "worldly" young woman, both dragging away. In these poor countries, as in American inner cities and on reservations, money that should be spent for food goes instead to the tobacco companies; over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and hooking their children, eventually killing themselves. I read in the newspaper and in my gardening magazine that the ends of cigarettes are so poisonous that if a baby swallows one, it is likely to die, and that the boiled water from a bunch of them makes an effective insecticide.There is a deep hurt that I feel as a mother. Some days it is a feeling of uselessness. I remember how carefully I ate when I was pregnant, how patiently I taught my daughter how to cross a street safely. For what, I sometimes wonder; so that she can struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her grandfather did?There is a quotation from a battered women's shelter that I especially like: "Peace on earth begins at home." I believe everything does. I think of a quotation for people trying to stop smoking: "Every home is a no smoking zone." Smoking is a form of self-battering that also batters those who must sit by, occasionally joke or complain, and helplessly watch. I realize now that as a child I sat by, through the years, and literally watched my father kill himself: surely one such victory in my family, for the prosperous leaders who own the tobacco companies, is enough.Words: 772。
新视野大学英语第二册Unit5课文翻译
新视野大学英语第二册Unit5课文翻译新视野大学英语第二册Unit 5课文翻译下面是新视野大学英语第二册Unit 5课文翻译，这个单元的课文都跟对孩子的教育有关，欢迎大家阅读!新视野大学英语第二册Unit 5课文翻译篇1我女儿抽烟。
她做作业时，脚搁在前面的长凳上，计算器嗒嗒地跳出几何题的答案。
我看着那包已抽了一半、她随意扔在手边的“骆驼”牌香烟。
我拿起香烟，走到厨房里去仔细察看，那里的光线好一点──谢天谢地，香烟是有过滤嘴的。
我心里十分难过。
我想哭。
事实上，我确实哭过。
我站在炉子旁边，手里捏着一支雪白的香烟，制作得非常精致，但那可是会致我女儿于死地的东西啊。
当她抽“万宝路”及“普雷厄尔”牌香烟时，我硬起心肠，不让自己感到难过。
我认识的人当中没有人抽这两种牌子的香烟。
她不知道我父亲、也就是她外公生前抽的就是“骆驼”牌香烟。
但是在他开始抽机制卷烟之前──那时他很年轻、也很穷，眼睛炯炯有神──他抽的是用“阿尔伯特亲王牌”烟丝自己手工卷的香烟。
我还记得那鲜红的烟丝盒，上面有一张维多利亚女王丈夫阿尔伯特亲王的照片，他身穿黑色燕尾服，手里拿着一支手杖。
到40年代末、50年代初，我的家乡佐治亚州的伊腾顿已没有人再自己手工卷烟了(而且几乎没有女人抽烟)。
烟草业，再加上好莱坞电影──影片中的男女主角都是烟鬼──把像我父亲这样的人完完全全争取了过去，他们无可救药地抽烟抽上了瘾。
然而我父亲从来就没有像阿尔伯特亲王那样时髦过。
他还是一个贫穷、过于肥胖、为养活一大家人而拼命干活的男人。
他是黑人，嘴里却总叼着一支雪白的香烟。
我记不清父亲是什么时候开始咳嗽的。
也许开始时并不明显，只是早晨一下床点燃第一支香烟时才有点微咳。
到我16岁，也就是我女儿现在这般年纪时，他一呼吸就呼哧呼哧的，让人感到不安;他上楼时每走三、四级楼梯就得停下来休息一会儿，而且，他常常一连咳上一个小时。
肺部的病痛把我父亲折磨得虚弱不堪，一个严冬，他死于被称为“穷人之友” 的疾病──肺炎。
新视野大学英语第三版读写教程第二册Unit5翻译
U5 ACliff Young, an unlikely hero克里夫•杨，令人意想不到的英雄Considered one of the toughest marathon events in the world, the 875-kilometer annual Australian race, a route from Sydney to Melbourne, is a harsh test of endurance for the world’s top athletes, regardless of their age. The young, super-fit runners train for months before a competition and are under contract to prominent sponsors like Nike and Adidas, who finance them and furnish them with a substantial support mechanism of money and equipment. The contest takes up to seven days to complete and is a challenging test of fitness and strength even for world-class athletes who compete for distinction and a cash prize.澳大利亚一年一度的悉尼至墨尔本的马拉松比赛全长875 公里，被认为是世界上最艰难的马拉松赛事之一，对任何年龄段的世界顶尖运动员来说都是一项严酷的耐力考验。
体能超好的年轻选手在赛前要进行数月的训练，而且还和像耐克和阿迪达斯这样著名的赞助商签约，这些赞助商通过强大的资金和装备支持机制为选手提供资助和装备。