(单词翻译:单击)
On Feb. 1, 2018, I put on a pair of sneakers and went for a run for the first time in more than 30 years.
2018年2月1日,我穿上运动鞋开始跑步,这是我30多年来的第一次跑步经历 。
To say I was never a runner is a mild way to sum up a life of active antipathy to the activity. Exercise was never my thing - undertaken periodically, at best, in an effort to force my body to become a smaller size.
我从来不跑步是我这一生反感活动的温和说辞 。我从来都不是锻炼爱好者--充其量不过是定期锻炼,以使身材更为苗条 。
Yet here I was in my 50s, feeling heavy and out of shape, in a pair of sneakers I bought when I took tennis lessons in 1999 and an oversized neon pink sweatshirt, gasping my way again along the pavement.
但现在我50多岁了,感觉自己很笨重、身材走样,所以穿上了1999年上网球课时买的那双运动鞋,套上宽大的霓虹粉运动衫,再次气喘吁吁地在人行道上跑了起来 。
I blame technology. It was my computer that got me to run again - and not just because sitting at it for years without exercising had gotten me into bad shape. On social media, I vicariously followed other people's fitness successes: an overweight mom who became a marathon runner, a friend who walked and ran off half her body weight, a music critic colleague who tweeted her day's playlist after each run.
我将其归咎于技术 。电脑让我再次跑了起来--而不仅是因为多年来久坐不动使我身材走样 。在社交媒体上,我间接关注了他人的健身成功历程:一位成为马拉松运动员的超重母亲,一位走着跑着减掉了一半体重的朋友,一位每次跑完步就会分享音乐单的音乐评论家同事 。
Online, I kept seeing articles about the benefits of exercise; if it were an over-the-counter drug, one doctor said, everyone would buy it. And then there was an app: Couch25K (that's "couch to 5K"), a program that led you from Square 1 to running five kilometers in just eight wee. In my supposedly busy life, joining a gym had always seemed like an insurmountable hurdle. But I can always download an app.
在网上,我总是看到有关运动好处的文章;一位医生说,如果这是非处方药,每个人都会去买着吃的 。再之后,Couch25K应用出现(即"5公里跑"),帮助初学者在8周的时间内从零起点跑完5公里 。在我本该忙碌的生活中,去健身房健身似乎是一个无法逾越的障碍,但下载应用的时间还是有的 。
Then I met up with one of my oldest friends for breakfast. "I've started running," she said, and maybe that, coming from a lifelong habit of sisterly competition, is what pushed me over the edge and got me actually to start a couple of weeks later.
后来,早餐时我遇到了一位老朋友 。"我开始跑步了,"她说道,也许是因为长久以来姐妹竞争的习惯,我也受到了影响,并于几周后开始跑了起来 。
And the beauty of running is that it's solitary - nobody has to know how long you've been doing it. Winded? For all that passerby knows, you've already run five miles. Or so you tell yourself.
跑步的美妙之处在于它是孤独的--没人知道你跑了多久 。气喘吁吁?所有的路人都知道,你已经跑了5公里啦 。或者,你就是这么心理暗示自己的 。
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