2016考研英語閱讀熱點：午夜日光下的馬拉松

考研英語來源：文都教育 2015-07-15　

A marathon in the midnight sunshine

午夜日光下的馬拉松

A look of horror comes across friends’ faces when Itell them the grand plan for my second marathon.Fired up with enthusiasm after triumphantlycollapsing over the Virgin London Marathon finishline in April, I was determined not to kick myrunning shoes off and leave them gathering dust forthe rest of eternity, so signed up for another onehappening two months later. In the Arctic.

當我對朋友們談到第二個宏偉的馬拉松計劃時，便看到了他們臉上恐懼的神情。在我得意洋洋地倒向四月倫敦處女馬拉松終點線之后，從便滿懷激情，因此也決定注冊參加兩月后在北極的另一場馬拉松，而不是將跑鞋丟棄一邊，放任它永久的埋上塵土。

Now, firstly, I should make it clear that I’m not a natural runner. While I feel like a gazellesprinting gracefully through the streets of London, when I catch my reflection I am hunchedlike Quasimodo, dragging my feet through puddles and panting a lot.

現在，首先，我要清楚地指出，我并不是一名天生的賽跑運動員。我感覺自己像是羚羊一樣地穿過倫敦的街道，當我看見我的倒影時，感覺自己就像是卡西莫多，拖著腳步氣喘吁吁地穿過水坑。

But what I lack in grace and ability I more than make up for in enthusiasm and nervousenergy, which is what I was hoping would pull me through as I stepped off the plane in theNorwegian city of Tromsø two weeks ago for their annual Midnight Sun Marathon.

而我卻愿意用滿懷的激情和集中的精力彌補我所缺少的天賦和能力，這也是我在兩個星期之前所希望的，當我在挪威城特羅姆瑟下飛機，參加每年的午夜太陽馬拉松時，能夠幫助我通過的地方。

It’s the middle of the night. The sun is shining. There are more than 4,000 runners from 56countries – 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-cladinvasion on the city whose position 200 miles north of the Arctic circle means the sun doesn’tset for a nine-week stretch during the summer.

午夜時分，日光爛漫。這里有來自56個國家的4000多名跑步愛好者，其中300名來自英國，其他的分別來自新西蘭，巴西和中國。他們這些人要么是報名參加一個10000米，半個馬拉松，要么是參加26.2英里，使得萊卡入侵城市，這些城市在200英里以北的北極圈境內，在夏日期間太陽將直射長達九周。

Most of the city is located on the island of Tromsøya, surrounded by calm waters andspectacularly rugged snow-topped mountains, which – thankfully – we’ll be avoiding by followinga route that sticks close to the water. But the scenery and terrain is already marking outTromsø as something of a sports haven, with the Polar Night Half Marathon being held inJanuary and the Sky Race Ultra Marathon in August.

大多數的城市位于特羅姆瑟雅島境內，四周環繞著平靜的水域和巍峨險峻白雪皚皚的山脈，謝天謝地的是，我們會在一條靠近水面的路線上躲避。但風景和地形也同時凸顯出特羅姆瑟作為一處體育圣地，正如一月份舉行的極地夜半馬拉松和八月份的天空跑馬拉松。