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THE WILL TO WIN Russell Gordon Carter
獲勝的意志 魯索爾·戈登·卡特
Do you know what it means to be beaten by your own self? It is this: You get the idea that you can't win,
你知道被你自己打敗意味著什么？意味著你不會贏，
you can't learn this lesson, or you can't do that hard job. Then you are surely beaten.
你不會吸取教訓，或者你不可能做這份艱苦的工作，你當然被打敗了。
But people can do wonders when deep down in their hearts they resolve that they will not give up.
但他們的內心告訴他們，他們有決心不會放棄。
Let us see what Rodney Owen and his team-mates did because they had the will to win.
讓我們看看羅德尼·歐文和他的隊員是如何做到的，因為他們有獲勝的意志。
What Rodney's Team Needed
羅德尼團隊需要什么
Rodney Owen raced down the left side of the basketball court and leaped into the air.
羅德尼·歐文沖到籃球場左側，并一躍而起。
The ball, passed high and swift, smacked against his upstretched hands, and, dodging the opposing guards, he sent it flying toward the basket.
傳遞過來的籃球高度很高，節奏很快，籃球碰到了羅德尼向上伸展的手上，他擋住了對方的防守球員，并將球投向籃筐。
The spectators, crowded on both sides of the court and in the gallery of the Middleton gymnasium,
籃球場兩邊聚集了許多觀眾，米德頓體育館的樓上也是人，
held their breath as they watched the ball rise toward the rafters and then fall in a graceful curve.
他們屏住呼吸，看著籃球躍起向椽子飛去，墜落時留下了美麗的弧線。
It struck the backstop and bounded downward against the iron rim; it sprang upward again and fell against the rim a second time.
籃球擊中了后擋板，向下墜落時碰到了鐵圈；之后再次彈起，墜落時又碰到了鐵圈。
There it hesitated as it made some tiny bounces; then it rolled lazily off to the right and dropped toward the floor.
籃球的幾次小彈跳在空中停留了一會，之后懶散地滾到了右邊，并掉落到地上。
At that moment the whistle blew, announcing the end of the first half of the game between Georgeburgh and Middleton,
就在這時哨聲響起，宣布喬治布格和米德頓的第一半場比賽結束，
the final game to decide the high-school championship of western Ohio.
這場比賽將決定俄亥俄西部高中冠軍歸屬。
Hard luck, Rod! someone shouted. Good try, Rod, old man! added another consoling voice. Pretty work if it had gone in!
有人叫嚷著羅德，運氣太差了，有人安慰地說不錯兄弟，如果進了就更完美了。
Yes, but it didn't! replied a Middleton supporter.
米德頓的支持者稱沒錯，但沒能實現。
Poor old Georgeburgh! Twenty-four to nine, some score! Rodney grinned when he heard these remarks, but in his heart there was anger.
可憐的喬治布格，24比9，這樣的比分，當他聽到這些言論時他笑了笑，但他的內心是憤怒。
