2010年英语专业八级英译汉预测题

英语原文：

Michael Jordan, a basketball player in whom commentators have discerned aristocratic qualities and supernatural powers, has retired from the game that made him one of the worlds' best known and best paid sportsmen.

Last week's announcement was premature by most people's measurement - Jordan is 30 and at the height of his playing and earning power - but it was not, by his own account, taken hastily, or rashly. "This is, " he said, with a rare stumble, " the perfect timing for me to walk away."

After three championships with the Chicago Bulls, a second gold medal with the US team at the 1992 Olympics, Jordan felt his motivation slipping away. "I'm at the pinnacle, " he told a thronged press conference. "I just feel I don't have anything else to prove."

But this explanation may appear too simple to satisfy the skeptics, who have recently discovered that Jordan does not lead an untroubled private life. First came the allegations that he gambled - in a country where gambling is mostly illegal - and that his gambling was out of control. Then his father was shot dead on July 23.

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迈克尔．乔丹，一位被评论家们誉为有着贵族气质和超凡才华的篮球运动员，已经从篮坛隐退，而正是篮球这项运动。使其成为世界上最为著名和报酬最为丰厚的运动员之一。

依照大多数人的衡量标准，上周的宣布显得为时过早，因为乔丹刚年届30，正处在其运动生涯和赚钱本领之颠峰。但按他自己的说法，他作出这一决定，既非一时冲动，亦非出于鲁莽。"这于我而言--"他说道，带着一种罕见的吞吞吐吐，"不啻是淡出体坛的绝佳时机。"

在随芝加哥公牛队赢取了三次冠军，并随美国队在1992年奥运会上再夺金牌之后，乔丹觉得他的行为动机正在悄然消逝。"我已攀至我事业的顶峰"，他在一个人满为患的记者招待会上告诉大家，"我真的觉得我已经没有什么别的东西好去证明的了。"

但此番解释对于那些持怀疑态度的人来说显得过于简单，无法令人置信。这些怀疑论调者最近发现，乔丹并非过着一种风平浪静的个人生活。首先传出的是他进行赌博的传言--在一个赌博很大程度上为非法的国家里，并且，他的赌博已到了无法收拾的地步。其次是他的父亲于7月23日被人枪杀身亡。

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