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A Great One Goes Out in Style, His Own Style 一个巨人以自己的风度退场 Pete Sampras will leave the game as he played it, a modest, easy, all-time great. You see all kinds of retirements in sports, and most of them are emotionally awkward difficult to watch. Theres the weeping news conference. There’s the endless, ceremonial you’ll-miss-me tour. There’s the stutter-step retirement, in which the athlete retires only to unretired when he craves attention or needs the money. Almost no one retires well. 网坛巨星皮特桑普拉斯即将告别赛坛. 就像他的比赛风格一样，他以一种谦逊、柔和且空前的方式告别赛场。然而体坛退役并不都是如此，其中矫情者也不在少数，让人不忍目睹。有的告别新闻发布会无限煽情。有的举行一场又一场为了让大家记住他的告别赛事。有的告别显得欲说还休，告别只是为了重新复出时获得更多的关注或者提高身价。几乎所有的告别会，没有一个让人感觉良好。 ? But Sampras is retiring in graceful self-control. He plans to announce his retirement in a ceremony at the U.S. Open tonight, and a lot of people wonder why Sampras won’t make more of the event, allow himself to be more elaborately feted. The simple answer is that Sampras doesn’t need it. He doesn’t need a last jolt of adrenaline or dose of adulation. He doesn’t need a prolonged ego bath. He doesn’t need more money, or trophies. He doesn’t need any of the things that other athletes find it so hard to walk away from. He’s content. 但是桑普拉斯正以一种优雅的自制力进行着退役仪式。他计划在美国公开赛的当晚宣布退役。许多人不明白，为什么桑普拉斯不大肆炒作这件事情，也不精心安排告别宴会。唯一的答案是桑普拉斯不需要这样做。他不需要对他的辉煌战绩作最后一次显摆，也不需要听到无数的奉承和吹捧。他不需要沉浸在冗长的名利场中。他不需要更多的金钱，或者奖杯。他不需要任何其他运动员觉得难以割舍的任何东西。他感到满足。 ? That contentment is a kind of achievement in its own right. Sampras has made himself invisible since his victory in last year’s U.S. Open. His 14th?major championship now stands as the last match of his career, the perfect finish. 自我满足感是自己拥有的一项权力。自从去年的美国公开赛之后，桑普拉斯就淡出了人们的视线。他参加的第十四次大型锦标赛是他职业生涯中的最后一次比赛，完美的结束。 ? He’s never played in another tournament. He’s declined all interviews. He’s simply stayed at home with his wife and new baby. Typically, he’s chosen the anticlimactic first night of this year’s tournament, rather than the last, to make his announcement. The session isn’t even sold out. 他不会再参加另外的比