(单词翻译:单击)
A marathon in the midnight sunshine
午夜日光下的马拉松
A look of horror comes across friends’ faces when I tell them the grand plan for my second marathon. Fired up with enthusiasm after triumphantly collapsing over the Virgin London Marathon finish line in April, I was determined not to kick my running shoes off and leave them gathering dust for the rest of eternity, so signed up for another one happening two months later. In the Arctic.
当我对朋友们谈到第二个宏伟的马拉松计划时，便看到了他们脸上恐惧的神情。在我得意洋洋地倒向四月伦敦处女马拉松终点线之后，从便满怀激情，因此也决定注册参加两月后在北极的另一场马拉松，而不是将跑鞋丢弃一边，放任它永久的埋上尘土。
Now, firstly, I should make it clear that I’m not a natural runner. While I feel like a gazelle sprinting gracefully through the streets of London, when I catch my reflection I am hunched like Quasimodo, dragging my feet through puddles and panting a lot.
现在，首先，我要清楚地指出，我并不是一名天生的赛跑运动员。我感觉自己像是羚羊一样地穿过伦敦的街道，当我看见我的倒影时，感觉自己就像是卡西莫多，拖着脚步气喘吁吁地穿过水坑。
But what I lack in grace and ability I more than make up for in enthusiasm and nervous energy, which is what I was hoping would pull me through as I stepped off the plane in the Norwegian city of Tromsø two weeks ago for their annual Midnight Sun Marathon.
而我却愿意用满怀的激情和集中的精力弥补我所缺少的天赋和能力，这也是我在两个星期之前所希望的，当我在挪威城特罗姆瑟下飞机，参加每年的午夜太阳马拉松时，能够帮助我通过的地方。
It’s the middle of the night. The sun is shining. There are more than 4,000 runners from 56 countries – 300 from the UK, but others from as far afield as New Zealand, Brazil and China – signed up for either a 10K, a half marathon, or the full 26.2 miles, and making a Lycra-clad invasion on the city whose position 200 miles north of the Arctic circle means the sun doesn’t set for a nine-week stretch during the summer.
午夜时分，日光烂漫。这里有来自56个国家的4000多名跑步爱好者，其中300名来自英国，其他的分别来自新西兰，巴西和中国。他们这些人要么是报名参加一个10000米，半个马拉松，要么是参加26.2英里，使得莱卡入侵城市，这些城市在200英里以北的北极圈境内，在夏日期间太阳将直射长达九周。
Most of the city is located on the island of Tromsøya, surrounded by calm waters and spectacularly rugged snow-topped mountains, which – thankfully – we’ll be avoiding by following a route that sticks close to the water. But the scenery and terrain is already marking out Tromsø as something of a sports haven, with the Polar Night Half Marathon being held in January and the Sky Race Ultra Marathon in August.
大多数的城市位于特罗姆瑟雅岛境内，四周环绕着平静的水域和巍峨险峻白雪皑皑的山脉，谢天谢地的是，我们会在一条靠近水面的路线上躲避。但风景和地形也同时凸显出特罗姆瑟作为一处体育圣地，正如一月份举行的极地夜半马拉松和八月份的天空跑马拉松。
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