Never Ever Give up 永不放弃.pdfVIP

1. Never, Ever Give up 永不放弃 Never ever give up It’s the fifth time I stand on this shore, the Cuban shore, looking out at distance horizon, believing, again, that I am going to make it. All the way across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean. Not only have I tried four times, but the great swimmers in the world have been trying since 1950, and it’s still never been done. The team is proud of our four attempts. It’s an expedition of some 30 people. Bonnie is my best friend and head handler, who somehow summons will, that last drop of will within me, when I think it’s gone, after many ,many hours and days out there. 这是我第十五次站在这片古巴海滩上，望着远处的地平线，我再次相信，我会成功跨越 这 片浩瀚、危险的海中荒漠。不仅仅是我都尝试了四次失败，世界上其他伟大的游泳健将， 自 从 1950 年以来就开始尝试了，而至今还没有人可以做到。我和我的团队尝试了四次，团 队 由 30 人组成，伯尼是我最好的朋友，也是我的首席训练师，她总能在我要放弃的时候 唤醒我 心底最后的力量，很长时间来一直如此。 The shark expert is the best in the world--large predator below. The box jellyfish, the deadliest venom in all of the ocean, is in these waters, and I have come close to dying from them on a previous attempt. The conditions themselves, besides the sheer distance of over 100 miles in the open ocean the currents and whirling eddies and the Gulf Stream itself, are the most unpredictable of all of planet Earth. 我们有世界上最好的鲨鱼专家——大型捕食杀手就在水底游荡， 这片水域里的箱型水母， 拥有海洋里最致命的毒液，在这片海洋，这片水域里。之前一次的尝试就差点毙命于此。这 里的水域条件，除了海面超过 100 英里的直线距离，水流、涡流和墨西哥湾暖流，所有的 条 件都是这个地球上最不可预知的。 And by the way It’s amusing to me that journalists and people before these attempts often you know ask me,” Well, are you going to go with any boats or any people or anything?” And I’m thinking, what are they imaging? That I’ll just sort of do some celestial navigation, and carry a bowie knife in my mouth, and I’ll hunt fish and skin them alive and eat them, and maybe drag a desalinization plant behind me for fresh water. Yes I have a team. And the team is expert, and the team is courageous, and brimming with i