Track 4

from Red Bull

翻译：Crazier

天高任我飞

My Career Is in the Sky

Track 4

from Red Bull

翻译：Crazier

大家小时候应该都幻想过自己在天上飞的场景吧！飞翔象征着自由，象征着人类对自我的超越。跳伞就是这样一项让人遐想许久、欲罢不能的运动。把跳伞玩得最好的女性当属艾米·切米莱基，一个从小就把目光投向高空的女飞人。她是红牛飞行队（Red Bull Air Force Team）里的第一名女性成员，获得过许多赛事的冠军，打破了多项世界纪录。她将自己的爱好和事业集中在了跳伞运动上，也借此让自己的生活充满了激情和欢乐。

Amy Chmelecki always wanted to be a1)skydiver. She began to learn the sport as early as age 13, and continued through her teenage years. She finally got her first chance at the2)legal age of 18. After that first experience of3)freefall, she knew skydiving would be a major focus of her life. Later, Amy earned her skydiving4)license in New York. For the next three years, she would make time to jump as much as possible during college. After college, Amy headed west to practice the sport at Skydive Arizona.

“After I went for a skydive when I turned 18, I realized it was something you could do all the time, if you wanted. I never looked back,” Amy says.

She5)scored her first6)sponsorship in 2001. And from there, she knew that skydiving, wingsuit flying and tunnel flying were going to be her career of choice. “I saw a path7)paved out for me. It was a great feeling. It was like I had no question that I was going to have a good career, and a good time.”

After more than a8)decade, Amy picked up 13 national titles, seven world titles and 11 world records and counting. What’s more, she took part in lots of different9)disciplines. “Most people hang out in a10)specific discipline for a while, win a championship, and then stop. I am always fired up about the next new thing to learn and11)master,” she explains.

艾米·切米莱基一直想成为一名跳伞运动员。她从13岁起就开始学习跳伞，从此，少女艾米便与跳伞结下了不解之缘。到了法定允许跳伞的18岁那年，她终于获得了第一次跳伞的机会。第一次自由落体的经历让她意识到了这一点：跳伞运动将成为自己毕生的追求。随后，艾米在纽约获得了跳伞证书。在上大学的三年里，艾米一有空就尽可能地去跳伞。大学毕业后，艾米便前往美国西部亚利桑那州的跳伞基地继续练习跳伞。

“18岁那年，我有了第一次跳伞的经历，我体会到这是一件可以一直做下去的事情，只要你想坚持下去。我对这个选择从未感到后悔，”艾米说。

2001年，艾米获得了她的第一个赞助。从赞助商那里，她进一步接触到了花样跳伞、飞鼠装滑翔运动和风洞飞行，并选择了它们作为自己的终身职业。“我感觉面前出现了一条大路。这感觉很棒。这让我坚信我一定会有一个顺利的职业生涯，并度过愉快的时光。”

在之后的十多年间，艾米总共赢得了13次全美冠军、7次世界冠军，并创造了11项世界纪录。不仅如此，她还积极参加着各种不同的训练。艾米说：“大部分人会在一段时间内苦练某项技能，直到获得冠军，之后就止步不前了。而对于我来说，学习并掌握一项新技能总能让我热血沸腾。”

词组加油站

as early as 早在……

make time to/for 抽空做……

head west 往西去

look back 追忆，回顾

pick up 获得

hang out 常去（某处）

for a while 一会儿

fire sb. up 激励、鼓舞某人

1) skydiver [5skaIdaIv[] n. 花样跳伞运动员

2) legal [5li:^l] adj. 合法的，法定的

3) freefall [5fri:fR:l] n. 自由降落式（跳伞）

4) license [5laIsns] n. 许可证，执照

5) score [skR:] v.（成功地）获得，取得

6) sponsorship [5spɒnsEFIp] n. 资助，赞助

7) pave [peIv] v. 铺设，为……铺平道路

8) decade [5dekeId] n. 十年

9) discipline [5dIs[plIn] n. 训练

10) specific [sp[5sIfIk] adj. 明确的，具体的

11) master [5mB:st[] v.精通，掌握

Know More

你知道下面三张图片分别对应哪种跳伞类型吗？

①skydiving（空中杂技跳伞），又称花样跳伞。特技跳伞者从飞机上跳下时，先自由坠落一段时间后再张开降落伞。在这段时间里，跳伞运动员可以尝试一些个人或团体的造型。

②wingsuit flying（飞鼠装滑翔运动），一种人体飞行运动项目。它使用一种被称为飞鼠装或飞行衣（wingsuit）的特殊跳伞装备来进行滑翔运动。飞鼠装的脚部之间及手臂下方都连着翅膜，从高空跃下时，这些翅膜能提供一些必要的升力。值得注意的是，这项运动危险性极高。

③tunnel flying（风洞飞行），一项运用空气动力学在人造风洞中模拟自由落体、空中飞行的运动。参与体验者可以利用风洞产生的高速强烈气流“飞行”，体验悬浮之感。

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