阿甘正傳? 第二章 03?
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> 而后他們又練習另一種叫作防守的動作，他們安排三個家伙擋在我前面，我應該突破他們，抓住帶球的那個家伙。前半部分比較容易，因為我可以輕輕松松把那三個家伙推倒，可是他們不喜歡我抓住帶球那家伙的動作，最后他們要我去撞一棵大橡樹，撞上十幾二十次——去體會一下那種感覺，我猜。可是過了一陣子，他們猜想我從那棵橡樹身上已經學到一些東西之后，又叫我跟那三個家伙一起和拿球的家伙練習。他們發起火來，因為我推開三名阻擋者之后撲向拿球那家伙的動作不夠兇殘。那天下午我挨了許多罵，可是練習完畢之后我去見教練，告訴他我不愿撲倒帶球那家伙，因為我怕會傷到他。教練說，不會傷到他，因為他穿了球衣，有保護。其實，我并不是那么怕傷到他，我怕的是他會生我的氣，要是我不好好對待每個人，他們就又會來追打我。長話短說，我花了好一陣子工夫才弄清楚訣竅。
> Then they tried this other thing they call the defense, where they put three guys in front of me and I am sposed to get thru them and grap the guy with the football. The first part was easier, cause I could just shove the other guys' heads down, but they were unhappy with the way I grapped the guy with the ball, and finally they made me go and tackle a big oak tree about fifteen or twenty times— to get the feel of it, I spose. But after a while, when they figguried I had learnt somethin from the oak tree, they put me back with the three guys and the ball carrier and then got mad I didn't jump on him real vicious-like after I moved the others out of the way. I took a lot of abuse that afternoon, but when we quit practicing I went in to see Coach Fellers and told him I didn't want to jump on the ball guy cause I was afraid of hurtin him. Coach, he say that it wouldn't hurt him, cause he was in his football suit and was protected. The truth is, I wasn't so much afraid of hurtin him as I was that he'd get mad at me and they'd start chasin me again if I wadn't real nice to everbody. To make a long story short, it took me a while to get the hang of it all.
> Vocabularies：shove 猛推 ；tackle 擒抱摔倒（美式橄欖球術語）；the ball carrier 持球前進的隊員；jump on撲向；vicious 兇殘的? abuse 虐待；get the hang of 掌握訣竅
