Ten years before Air Jordans ,I learned to fly.It's like the way some kids stroll to a basketball hoop with a pumped-up ball and throw a few shots,hitting each one effortlessly.Like a car idling before a drag race,there is an invitation,perhaps even a threat,in the way their sneakers soft-shoe the pavement and the ball rolls around in their hands
十年前的飛人喬丹,我嘗試著去“飛”,這就像有些孩子漫步到籃框下,把球揚(yáng)起輕輕地一擲得分,輕松地?fù)魯×怂腥?就像一輛參加激烈比賽前正在空轉(zhuǎn)的機(jī)車,這是一種“邀請”,可能更像一種“挑釁”,在這種氣勢下,他們的運(yùn)動(dòng)鞋輕搓著地板,手中的球不停地轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng).
Thus wrote Thucydides in the fifth century B.C.; that is,at as long a remove from the traditional date of the sack of Troy-twelfth century B.C.-as the signing of Magna Carta in 1215 is from the present day.
因此,修西得底斯在公元前五世紀(jì)寫的內(nèi)容,距那些人們傳統(tǒng)意義上認(rèn)為的特洛伊城陷落的年代“公元前12世紀(jì)”已經(jīng)非常遙遠(yuǎn),就像1215年簽署“大憲章”距離現(xiàn)在這么長的時(shí)間.