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Skateboarding involves riding and performing tricks on a small oval board attached to four wheels. It can be considered a recreational activity, an art form or a method of transportation.
Neftalie Williams says skateboarding is his passion.
"When I'm skateboarding, I feel free. It gives me the space to do what I want to do and sort of tune out the rest of the world. All I do is what feels good to me, what feels great under my feet and it lets me belong to a larger community. So I feel it all, all at the same time."
As a young adult, Williams gained a larger view on skateboarding.
"Right when I got to be about 20 years old, that's when I decided that not only was skateboarding important, but it's something that I should really, really be involved in --- not just working on being an amateur sponsor skater, but that skateboarding meant more to more people and it was a way to sort of connect communities everywhere.
"So, for me, I started thinking about skating in a broader context. I ended up putting together my own skateboarding camp for kids in New England, because that was me wanting to give back to the sport that gave me so much life. And a lot of my good friends have now become pro skaters and they were counselors at my camp at that time. So, that was my first foray into making things bigger for skateboarding as a whole."
Neftalie Williams is a researcher and lecturer with the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC). He teaches a course called "Skateboarding and Action Sports in Business Media and Culture."
Williams studied skateboarding in college and received a master's degree in Public Diplomacy from USC. He is the first professor in the United States to teach the sport.
"I am the first professor of skateboarding and action sports here in the U.S.,especially at a major university, USC. I've been looking at how skateboarding can be used as a tool for cultural diplomacy. So, when it came time to bring the class together, they knew that I'd been working out in the field in Cuba and Brazil and South Africa and that we were trying to find new ways to engage youth all over the world.
"So, when it came time to propose having a class that talked about it, they looked at the fact that I had the experience, that I also had all the ties within the skateboarding network to bring in great people -- leaders in the field -- and that we were really also looking at the role of gender in new sports and how to actually make inroads and communicate with our youth. They thought it was a really great idea and we went forward."
The course has proven to be popular among students. But Williams has kept the class size small, permitting just 25 students to officially register for the course.
Examining skating as a tool for cultural diplomacy worldwide, Williams joined forces with the U.S. State Department, becoming the first skateboarding and academic sports envoy in U.S. history.
"One of the things I'm the most proud of is being the first skateboarding envoy for the U.S. government. We worked with the embassy in the Netherlands to engage the Syrian refugees who'd been granted asylum in the Netherlands. It was an amazing project. And, not only was it engaging the Syrian refugees, but it was also engaging the youth of the Netherlands. Both of those groups are going to be the future of the Netherlands populace.
"So, by having them both together they got to know one another, be totally engaged with each other and to spend time knowing what the future of the Netherlands was going to look like. And it wasn't just, 'this is a project for those kids' or 'this is just something for the elite.' For some of those kids it was the first time they ever got to see skateboarding up close. And they all became immediate parts of the skateboarding community."
Because the skateboarding diplomacy project was so successful in the Netherlands, the State Department has asked for Williams's help in creating skateboarding projects in other countries.
"So we're creating a plan right now to take skateboarding globally as an envoy. Some of the other countries that the U.S. government would like to engage using skateboarding as a tool for cultural diplomacy are Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Cambodia and Ethiopia."
In addition to his work empowering and uniting skateboarding communities, Neftalie Williams is chairman of Cuba Skate, designed to create people-to-people exchange between communities in Cuba and the U.S.
"Cuba Skate is our nonprofit that's based in D.C. and here in L.A. and what we do is we bring boards back and forth to the kids that are in Cuba and we also promote educational exchange between the skaters that are here, skaters globally and the skaters that are in Cuba.
"So one of the main things that are important with our working with Cuba Skate is that there are no skate shops on the island. So, what we want to do is foster entrepreneurship in the youth so that they can create their own skate shops, their own cooperatives, give them a blueprint to look at how businesses are run here in skateboarding, and how they can run their own educational facilities there in Cuba."
A major issue in the Cuban skateboarding community is its growing female membership.
"Cuba has a very large skate population and it's growing all the time. With skateboarding being moved to the Olympics hopefully in the future, it's nice to see that so many women are starting to take up skateboarding there and that there is no disparity between the men and women on the island."
However, Williams says there are a few barriers Cuba Skate faces.
"The biggest obstacles that we face in Cuba skate is that we still have travel restrictions, there's still an embargo in place and that makes our work a little difficult. The good thing, though, is that we have our hearts in a light place because we know that progress is being made on both sides."
Neftalie Williams believe skateboarding teaches self-expression, among other things.
"One of the most amazing thing that skateboarding teaches you is how to re-imagine yourself and the world around you. That's very important because we have skaters all over the world who, particularly in Cuba, don't have access to resources. So, they've got to now look at themselves and figure out, 'how do I exist in this space?'
"What skateboarding also teaches you is how to persevere. Because there aren't people to teach you how to do tricks or having large teams involved in the skate, you learn how to do it on your own. The other thing is skateboarding teaches you is to build a family and to build a community. That's amazing because most sports don't do that. This is something that's just inherent in skateboarding."
Neftalie started in skateboarding as a teenager. He says he, and other neighborhood kids, chose skateboarding because bicycles were too costly.
"Skateboarding was something that all the kids in my building started doing after we looked at how expensive it was to get bikes and so it was really something great to be involved in. So it didn't matter what part of town you were from; skateboarding was something that everyone got into."
Williams says the sport has given him so much. He says he hopes his work in skateboarding and the community will help ensure that the next generation of leaders is smarter and more culturally aware.
"Skateboarding to me is freedom. It's family. It's education. It's transportation. It's really the most amazing thing in the whole wide world. It gives us the freedom to do whatever we want anywhere. And that's something that...that's the most important thing to me. That freedom and that ability to communicate globally."
重点解析
1.belong to属于
After all, this money does not belong to the Fed – it belongs to us.
毕竟，这笔钱并不属于美联储——它是属于我们纳税人的。
2.be involved in涉及到…；参与
Before beginning, map out the names of the systems that will be involved in this solution.
开始前，请列出此解决方案中将涉及的系统的名称。
3.end up 结束
Here’s my take: if you move at all in the night, you might end up wrestling the body pillow every time you turn.
这里是我采用的方法：如果你整夜都在动，每次你翻身的时候就可能以与靠枕的斗争结束。
4.bring together 集合；使…团结起来
He shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
他会将每个碎片和部分都带到一起,会将他们铸成永世不朽的可爱和完美的样子。
5.figure out 解决；算出；想出；
Then figure out one practical solution you can take for each of those pieces.
接着想出一个实用性的方法用于解决每一小部分的问题。
6.on both sides 双方
Budapest was embarrassing, a rare moment when people on both sides dropped the ball, but I knew it would pass.
布达佩斯感到困窘，双方都犯了错，这是一个极少出现的情况，但我知道事情总会过去。
参考译文
滑板运动是指在一个连在四个轮子上的椭圆形小滑板上进行骑行和特技表演。滑板运动可以看作是一种娱乐活动，一种艺术形式或一种交通工具。
内法塔利·威廉姆斯说滑板运动是他的激情所在。
“当我做滑板运动时，我感觉我是自由的。它给了我做自己想做的事情的空间，有点与世隔绝的感觉。我所做的一切都是我喜欢做的事情，脚下的滑板让我感觉很棒，滑板运动让我归属到一个更大的社区。所以这些东西我都能感觉到，我能同时感觉到这些东西。”
作为一个年轻人，威廉姆斯对滑板运动有了更深刻的看法。
“就在我快要20岁的时候，我就意识到滑板运动不仅是重要的，而且是我真的需要参与其中的一件事情，不仅仅是作为一个业余的滑板赞助商，滑板运动对更多的人意味着更多，它是一种连接各地社区的方式。”
所以，对我来说，我开始在更广阔的背景下思考滑板运动。最终，我在新英格兰为孩子们组织了自己的滑板夏令营，因为我想要回馈这项给了我如此多活力的运动。我的很多好朋友现在都成了职业滑冰运动员，他们当时在我的营地担任顾问。所以，这是我第一次尝试把滑板这项运动做得更大。”
内法塔利·威廉姆斯是南加州大学安娜伯格传播与新闻学院的研究员和讲师。他教授一门名为“商业媒体和文化中的滑板和极限运动”的课程。威廉姆斯在大学学习滑板运动，并获得南加州大学公共外交硕士学位。他是美国第一位教授这项运动的教授。
“我是美国第一位研究滑板和极限运动的教授，特别是在南加州大学这样的重点大学。我一直在研究滑板如何被用作文化外交的工具。所以，当课程开始时，他们知道我一直在古巴、巴西和南非锻炼，而且我们正在努力寻找新的方式让全世界的年轻人参与进来。
“所以，当我提议开一门课来讨论这个问题时，他们考虑到我有过这样的经历，我也在滑板运动网络中拥有所有的联系，我可以带来一些大师——这个领域的领导者——我们还研究了性别在新运动中的作用，以及如何进入到年轻人的世界和他们交流。他们认为这是一个很棒的想法，于是我们就推进了这个课程。”
这门课程在学生中很受欢迎。但威廉姆斯一直保持较小的班级规模，只允许25名学生正式注册这门课程。
为了研究滑板运动作为全球文化外交的工具，威廉姆斯加入美国国务院，成为美国历史上第一位滑板运动和学术体育特使。
“我最自豪的一件事是成为美国政府的第一位滑板特使。我们与荷兰大使馆合作，帮助在荷兰获得庇护的叙利亚难民。这是一个了不起的项目。它不仅与叙利亚难民接触，也与荷兰的年轻人接触。这两个群体都将是荷兰人民的未来。
“所以，他们在一起可以互相了解，完全投入到彼此的生活中，花时间了解荷兰的未来。而且这个项目不仅仅是为那些孩子设立的项目，也不仅仅是为精英们设立的项目。对其中一些孩子来说，这是他们第一次近距离接触滑板。他们都立即成为滑板社区的一份子。
由于滑板外交项目在荷兰非常成功，美国国务院请求威廉姆斯帮助在其他国家创建滑板项目。
“所以我们现在正在制定一项计划，以特使的身份在全球推广滑板运动。美国政府希望利用滑板作为文化外交工具的国家还包括吉尔吉斯斯坦、阿富汗、柬埔寨和埃塞俄比亚。”内法塔利·威廉姆斯的工作除了赋予滑板社区力量和团结滑板社区外，他还是是古巴滑板协会的主席，协会旨在创造古巴和美国社区之间的人文交流。
“古巴滑板协会是我们的非营利组织，它的总部在华盛顿和洛杉矶。我们所做的就是不断地把滑板带给古巴的孩子们，我们也促进了这里的、全球的和古巴的滑板运动员之间的教育交流。
“因此，我们与古巴滑板协会合作的一个重要方面是，这个岛上没有滑板商店。所以，我们想做的是培养年轻人的创业精神，这样他们就可以创建自己的滑板店，他们自己的合伙企业，给他们一个蓝图，让他们看看这里的滑板行业是如何运作的，以及他们如何在古巴运营自己的教育设施。”
古巴滑板社区的一个主要问题是，它的女性会员越来越多。
“古巴的滑板运动人口非常多，而且一直在增长。随着滑板运动有望在未来成为奥运会项目，很高兴看到这么多的女性开始在那里玩滑板，岛上的男性和女性之间没有差异。”
然而，威廉姆斯说，古巴滑板运动面临一些障碍。
“我们在古巴面临的最大障碍是我们仍然有旅行限制，仍然有禁令，这使得我们的工作有点困难。不过，好消息是，我们的心是善良的，因为我们知道双方都在取得进展。”
内法塔利·威廉姆斯相信滑板运动教会人们自我表达，以及其他一些东西。
“滑板运动教会你的最神奇的事情之一就是如何重新想象你自己和你周围的世界。这一点非常重要，因为我们在世界各地都有滑板爱好者，尤其是在古巴，他们无法获得资源。因此，他们现在必须审视自己，并弄清楚，“我是如何在这个空间中生存的?”
滑板运动教会人们的还有坚持。因为没有人教你如何做滑板的特技或有大的团队参与其中，所以你得学会如何自己做那些动作。滑板教会你的另一件事是建立一个家庭和一个社区。这很神奇，因为大多数体育运动都没有这个作用。这是滑板固有的东西。
内法塔利十几岁时开始玩滑板。他说，他和邻居的其他孩子选择滑板是因为自行车太贵了。
“滑板是我们楼里所有的孩子在看到买自行车有多贵后开始做的事情，所以参与其中真的很棒。所以你来自城市的哪里并不重要，滑板是每个人都喜欢的运动。”
威廉姆斯说滑板这项运动给了自己太多东西。他说，他希望他在滑板和社区的工作将有助于确保下一代的领导者更聪明，更有文化意识。
“滑板运动对我来说就是自由。就是家庭，就是教育。它是交通工具。这真的是世界上最神奇的事情。它给了我们在任何地方做任何事情的自由。滑板运动对我来说就是最重要的事情。它带给我自由和与全球沟通的能力。”
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