JEANNE: Hi Thomas, how are you enjoying the course so far?

珍妮：嗨，托马斯，到目前为止你觉得这门课怎么样？

THOMAS: Yeah, I think it's good.

托马斯：是的，我觉得很好。

JEANNE: Remind me – why did you decide to study sports science?

珍妮：说起这个我想起来了—你为什么决定学习体育科学？

Didn't you want to be a professional athlete when you were at school?

你上学的时候不是想成为一名职业运动员吗？

THOMAS: Yeah – that was my goal, and all my classmates assumed I would achieve it; they thought I was brilliant.

托马斯：是的。那是我的目标，我所有的同学都觉得我能做到，他们认为我很优秀。

JEANNE: That must have been a nice feeling.

珍妮：那感觉一定很好。

THOMAS: Mm, I thought I could win anything.

托马斯：嗯，我以为我在所有比赛中都能赢。

There was no one who could run faster than me.

没有人能跑得比我快。

JEANNE: Exactly – so what happened?

珍妮：没错。那么后来发生了什么事？

Did your mum and dad want you to be more 'academic'?

你爸妈想让你更专注于学术吗？

THOMAS: Not at all. Perhaps they should have pushed me harder, though.

托马斯：不是的。不过，也许他们应该给我更大的压力。

JEANNE: What do you mean?

珍妮：什么意思？

THOMAS: I think I should have practised more.

托马斯：我想我应该多练习。

JEANNE: What makes you say that?

珍妮：为什么这么说呢？

THOMAS: Well, I went out to Kenya for a couple of weeks to train …

托马斯：嗯，我去肯尼亚训练了几个星期……

JEANNE: Really! I didn't know that.

珍妮：真的吗？我都不知道。

THOMAS: I was chosen to go there out of loads of kids and run with some of the top teenage athletes in the world.

托马斯：他们在一群孩子中把我选出来，让我去和世界上一些顶尖的青少年运动员一起跑步。

And … I was so calm about it.

而且对此我的反应非常冷静。

I just kept thinking how fortunate I was.

我一直在想我是多么幸运。

What a great chance this was!

这是多么好的机会啊！

Everyone back home was so proud of me.

家里的每个人都为我感到骄傲。

But once we started competing, I very quickly realised I wasn't good enough.

但我们一开始比赛，我很快意识到我不够优秀。

JEANNE: That must have been a huge shock.

珍妮：那一定是一个巨大的打击。

THOMAS: I thought 'this can't be happening'!

托马斯：我当时想‘这不可能发生’！

I was used to winning.

我习惯做冠军。

JEANNE: I'm sorry to hear that.

珍妮：听到这个消息我很难过。

THOMAS: It's OK. I'm over it now and I think it's much better to do a university course and this one has such a variety of sports-related areas.

托马斯：没关系。我现在想通了，我觉得上大学更好，这门课有很多与体育相关的领域。

It's going to be good.

会很好的。

JEANNE: Oh, I agree – I chose it because of that.

珍妮：哦，我同意。我就是因为这个选了它。