This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
John Wooden died last Friday at the age of ninety-nine. He was one of the greatest twentieth-century Americans in sports. He was an excellent college basketball player. He led Purdue University to a national championship in nineteen thirty-two. After college he was a high school coach. He also taught English for nine years.
约翰·伍登(John Wooden) 上周五去世，享年的99岁，他是20世纪美国体育史最伟大的人物之一。他是一位出色的大学篮球运动员。1932年，他率领美国普渡大学（Purdue University）获得全美冠军。大学毕业后他担任一所高中的篮球教练。他还教过9年的英语。
But where he really made his mark was at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was head coach of men's basketball for twenty-seven years.
但真正使他成为一个传奇是在加州大学洛杉矶分校，他曾担任该校男篮主教练长达27年。
His teams won a record ten national championships. These included seven in a row during the late nineteen sixties and early seventies. The Bruins have won just one other championship since then.
他的球队获得了创纪录的10次全美冠军，包括19世纪60年代末70年代初的7连冠。而在此之前，该球队之赢得过一次冠军。（Bruins为球队吉祥物。）
An announcer described him in nineteen seventy-five after his final championship victory, which was also his final game.
1975年总决赛胜利后，一个播音员这样描述了他，那场比赛也是他最后一场比赛。
ANNOUNCER: "As Wooden enters the playing court, he receives a standing ovation from an overflow crowd and true to the Wooden tradition, on the outside everything appears calm."
播音员：“当伍登进入球场，他受到了来自汹涌人潮和真正伍登拥泵的起立鼓掌。而球场外的一切，平静如水。”
He coached famous players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, known then as Lew Alcindor, and Bill Walton.
他执教过贾巴尔，比尔·沃尔顿等球星。
注：被称为“天勾”的篮球明星卡里姆·阿布杜尔·贾巴尔（Kareem Abdul-Jabbar），原名卢·艾尔辛多尔（Lew Alcindor）。
Several years ago, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar spoke at a ceremony honoring John Wooden. He said many top athletes worry they will be exploited for their skills by their coach.
几年前，贾巴尔在一次约翰·伍登的荣誉仪式上发表讲话称，很多顶级的运动员担心自己的能力被教练利用。
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: "That never, ever had a possibility of happening in my experience at U.C.L.A. because of this man here. He really wanted myself and all of us who participated in the program to get our degrees and learn what it meant to be a good citizen, and to be good parents and husbands and responsible human beings. And that was the most important thing for him."
贾巴尔：“那些永远不可能在加州大学洛杉矶分校发生。因为他（指伍登）在这里。他真的希望我们所有人参与进来赢得我们的荣誉，学习怎样才是一个好公民。同时做一个好父亲，好丈夫，做一个负责任的人。这些对他而言是最为重要的事情。”
John Wooden was praised for how he taught the basics of the game, like passing, defense and moving without the ball. But he also offered life lessons as a speaker and author. His books included the self-improvement guide "Pyramid of Success."
约翰·伍登因他教授的篮球基本技巧广受赞誉，像传球、防守、无球跑动。但他同时还是一位人生励志课程的演讲家和作者。他的著作包括自我改进指南《成功金字塔》。
At a speaking event when he was already in his nineties, he explained that his father had taught him a few things about success.
年届90的他在一次演讲活动时讲述了他的父亲教给他的关于成功的一些东西。
JOHN WOODEN: "I was raised on a small farm in southern Indiana and Dad tried to teach me and my brothers that you should never try to be better than someone else. Always learn from others and never cease trying to be the best you could be. That's under your control."
约翰·伍登：“我在印第安纳州南部的一个小农场长大。父亲试图教育我和我的兄弟们，“永远不要和别人比。要总是向他人学习，努力做最好的自己——这才是你可以控制的。”
Those words later helped him with his own definition of success.
这些话后来帮助伍登完善了他关于成功的定义。
JOHN WOODEN: "Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable. I believe that is true. If you make the effort to do the best of what you are capable, trying to improve the situation that exists for you, I think that is success and I do not think others can judge that."
约翰·伍登：“获得内心平静只有通过自我满足和认识到你已在自己能力范围内尽力做到最好。我坚信这点。如果你已全力以赴，努力提高自我，我认为这就是成功，别人也无可非议。”
His wife of fifty-three years, Nell, died in nineteen eighty-five.
和他共同走过53年的妻子内尔1985年去世。
At U.C.L.A. the man known simply as "Coach" had a record of six hundred twenty wins and one hundred forty-seven losses. Current coach Ben Howland calls John Wooden "the greatest coach in the history of basketball."
在加州大学洛杉矶分校，作为教练而闻名的约翰·伍登拥有了一项620胜147负的纪录。现任教练本·豪兰称他为“篮球史上最伟大的教练。”