1 Chapter 0 Who Was Jesse Owens

Who Was Jesse Owens?

杰西·欧文斯是谁?

Who Was Jesse Owens? In rural Alabama, Jesse Owens sprinted across farmland and ran along dirt roads. He ran to the fields where he picked one hundred pounds of cotton a day. He ran to the orchards where he and his large family picked fruit from the trees. He ran with friends, playing games when they were not working alongside their parents.

杰西·欧文斯是谁?在亚拉巴马州的乡村，杰西·欧文斯(Jesse Owens)冲刺穿过农田，沿着土路奔跑。 他跑到田里，每天摘一百磅棉花。 他跑到果园，在那里他和他的大家庭从树上摘水果。 他和朋友们一起跑步，在他们不在父母身边工作的时候玩游戏。

Jesse ran because it made him feel free. "I always loved running," he later said. "It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet." "Jesse would run and play just like everyone else," his cousin Mattie Taylor said

杰西跑了，因为这让他觉得自由。 “我一直喜欢跑步，”他后来说。 “这是你可以靠自己的力量做的事情。 你可以朝任何方向走，想快就快，想慢就慢，如果你愿意，可以迎风而行，用你的双脚去寻找新的风景。” “杰西会像其他人一样奔跑和玩耍，”他的表妹玛蒂·泰勒说

of those days of playing in Alabama. "But you could never catch him." No one ever did catch Jesse Owens. The young man who began running barefoot in those Alabama fields became one of the greatest sprinters in history. At the 1936 Olympic Games, he won four gold medals and became an international hero. Jesse Owens started running when he was just a young boy, and he never stopped.

那些在阿拉巴马州打球的日子 “但是你永远也抓不到他。” 没人抓到杰西·欧文斯。 这个在亚拉巴马州的田野里赤脚跑步的年轻人成为了历史上最伟大的短跑运动员之一。 在1936年的奥运会上，他赢得了四枚金牌，成为国际英雄。 杰西·欧文斯很小的时候就开始跑步了，而且从未停止过。