Ten years before Air Jordans ,I learned to fly.It's like the way some kids stroll to a basketball hoop with a pumped-up ball and throw a few shots,hitting each one effortlessly.Like a car idling before a drag race,there is an invitation,perhaps even a threat,in the way their sneakers soft-shoe the pavement and the ball rolls around in their hands
十年前的飞人乔丹,我尝试着去“飞”,这就像有些孩子漫步到篮框下,把球扬起轻轻地一掷得分,轻松地击败了所有人.就像一辆参加激烈比赛前正在空转的机车,这是一种“邀请”,可能更像一种“挑衅”,在这种气势下,他们的运动鞋轻搓着地板,手中的球不停地转动.
Thus wrote Thucydides in the fifth century B.C.; that is,at as long a remove from the traditional date of the sack of Troy-twelfth century B.C.-as the signing of Magna Carta in 1215 is from the present day.
因此,修西得底斯在公元前五世纪写的内容,距那些人们传统意义上认为的特洛伊城陷落的年代“公元前12世纪”已经非常遥远,就像1215年签署“大宪章”距离现在这么长的时间.