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塞巴斯蒂安.维特尔是德国一级方程式赛车手，出生于1987年7月3日，2010年11月14日，维特尔在阿布扎比夺冠，成为最年轻的世界冠军。他今天谈论了在新泽西开车有何代价。年仅24岁的他还很幽默的喔。
Tell us a little bit about yours, you are just a kid, right? And how old are you, 24?
告诉我们一点关于你的消息,你只是个孩子,对吗?你多少岁了,24岁吗?
Correct, yeah. How old are you?
正确,恩。你多大了?
I'm 65, don't get the ideas.
我已经65岁了,你可不要这么想。
I still know what I'm doing.
我还知道我在做什么。
Tell us about your childhood.
告诉我们关于你的童年。
You are born in Germany, where?
你出生在德国,是在哪里?
I guess Michael Schumacher, a superhero, loomed large as an influence as a young boy, right?
我在想迈克尔·舒马赫这位超级英雄,隐约对一个小男孩的影响很大,是这样吗?
Yeah, yeah. Obviously, so I started it as a little kid I think.
是啊,是啊。显然,所以我开始只是一个小孩,我是这样认为的。
How old were you when you started to race?
你几岁时开始比赛?
In little cars.
是小汽车的那种。
3.5, 4 years old.
3岁半，4岁的样子。
3.5? And was it because your parents had an interest in racing?
3岁半?因为你的父母都对赛车感兴趣?
Yeah, my father did hill-climb racing. I don't know if you know.
是的,我父亲制造爬山赛车。我不知道你是否了解。
I know, but hill-climbing, yeah?
我知道,但是爬山,是吗?
Yeah.In motorcycles and cars, or just cars?
是的。摩托车和汽车,还是只是汽车?
Cars.Yeah.So, yeah, he did that and then the whole family was always travelling together.
汽车。是的。所以,是的,他负责制造,然后整个家庭总是一起旅行。
And, yeah, I was basically a baby when he was already racing.
当然,我基本上还是一个婴儿时,他已经开始赛车了。
Right.and you are from the same part of Germany with Michael Schumacher?
好的。你与迈克尔·舒马赫来自德国的同一地区?
I'm not really. Well, Germany was not that big compared to America.
我不是真的如此。嗯,德国与美国相比,还不够大。
Yeah, and don't you forget it.
是的,你不要忘记这点。
You know. You see that's, you see I'm 24.
你知道。正如你看到的,你看到我24岁。
I know. I have nothing to forget.
我知道的。我没有忘记。
We were just having a fun here. But we, eh, Sebastian, tell us about this video tape here.
我们只是在这里非常快乐。但我们,呃,塞巴斯蒂安,给我们讲讲关于这个的录像。
What is this? Is that you drive a go car?
这是什么?是你开车去的吗?
There you are.Yeah.Oh, my God, 3.5. I forget how tiny. Look at this.
你现在就是这样。是的。哦,我的上帝,3岁半。我忘记有多小了。看看这个。
You know, you know in our backyard and because it was so narrow I couldn't make a full turn.
你知道,你知道,在我们家后院,因为它是如此狭窄，我都不能做出全转弯。
So my father went there, put a bucket of water on the ground so that I could, yeah.
所以我父亲去那儿,把一桶水放在地上,这样我就可以做到了,是的。
Yeah.Yeah, do a little bit though. He also used.
是的。是的,加一点难度。他经常使用的。
Oh my God. That's unbelievable! And you will, you, there's gonna be a race over New Jersey in a couple of years, is that right?
哦我的上帝。那真是难以置信!你也可以的,你也许会在几年内在新泽西有场比赛,不对吗?
Yeah, next year.
是的,明年。
Next year is gonna be a race there.
明年将会在那里有场比赛。
Yeah, yeah, we just had a little bit of promo today.
是啊,是啊,我们只是有一点今天的宣传。
Yeah. And you drove the prospective track.
是的。你要在预想的赛道上比赛。
Is that a straight course?
是直线路线?
Yes, yes, it's gonna be. It's not finished entirely; but it looks very quick.
是的,是的,是这样的。它还没有全部完成,但是它看起来非常快。
Yeah.You need some big balls or something else.
是的。你需要一些大的球或者别的什么东西。
Now it looks very, looks very interesting like very, you know, far, sloping course.
现在它看起来很,看起来非常有意思,你知道,很远的,倾斜的那种赛道。
Just stop; just don't do that a gig, all right?
请停下;别开玩笑了,好吗?
I'm just, I'm so glad Oprah doesn't have a show.
我只是,我很高兴奥普拉没有节目。
注：听力文本来源于普特
妙语佳句
1.That's unbelievable!
那真是难以置信!
2. straight course
直道
3. slope n. 倾斜;坡度
The floor of the theater has a slope of four feet from the back seats to the front seats.
这戏院的地板从后排座位到前排座位有四英尺的倾斜。
