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英语翻译

As a young ice skater, I had flown pretty high, pretty quickly. My partner and I won the Canadian junior pairs championship when I was 14 and I was thrilled, as a 6-year-old, to be picked to skate in the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. But then everything came crashing down.

We finished 12th at the Games. I soon quit doubles skating and tried to continue in singles. But I wasn’t good enough I didn’t even compete in the nest two national championships. I felt like I was a somebody who had become a nobody.

I was 18 and had just graduated from high school when my mom told me: ”You can’t just count on skating to make a living. You better find a job.” I knew she was right. But what could I do? I’d been an athlete, skating since I waited tables, cleaned, stocked the shop, took inventory; I did everything. In fact, I worked so hard that I never got the chance to even have a break or get off my feet for entire shifts. No one cared that I had been an Olympic skater; I was judged only by how hard I worked. It was exactly what I needed.

That job taught me to so many things. I learned, for example, how to deal with people. As an athlete, I’d lived in something of a cocoon growing up, so this was new to me. One day a man loudly called me. One day a man loudly called me over to his table and, with a scowl on his face, complained: “This milk is soul. I’m not drinking this junk! I want my money back!” It was near the end of my shift and I was tempted to tell him how rude I thought he was. But I had learned that “the customer is always right’ and a smile can go a long way.

“I’m really sorry, sir—I’ll get you a free cup,” I said with a wide grin. When I brought him his coffee his whole disposition had changed. And he left me a tip!

My first job taught me that it is important to do the best at anything you try, in school, at work or sport. I knew nothing about being a waitress when I started my job but by the time I left—when I decided to return to skating and to team p with David—I had earned a raise and my boss’s praisse. The meant so much to me.

Answer 1

作为一个年轻的滑冰选手，我曾经取得过很大的荣耀：6岁被选中参加了1994年的奥运会，14岁时，和搭档一起获得了加拿大花样滑冰锦标赛的冠军。但是之后，一切都飞转直下。
当我和搭档一起参加完第十二届奥运会后，我退出了双人滑冰，改为单人滑冰。但是我的成绩很不理想。我觉得我从一个知名人物变成了无名小卒。
18岁那年从高中毕业的时候，我妈妈对我说：你不能靠滑冰谋生，最好还是去找份工作。我知道她说的有道理，但是我能做什么呢？我曾是个运动员，但是现在我是服务生，清洁工，库存登记员。我做任何我可以做的事情。并且很卖力的去工作，忙的脚不沾地。没有人在意你曾经参加过奥运会什么的，他们只是依据你工作的努力程度来判断你，而这一切，也正是我想要他们知道的。
工作教会了我很多事情，我从中学习到了怎样与人交往等等。而曾经作为一个运动员的时候，我像是在温室里成长的花朵，所以，现在的生活，对我来说是全新的。有一天，有个男人坐在桌子的后边，大声的对我喊：这个牛奶是坏的，我不喝这种垃圾，退钱！我很婉转的告诉他，他太粗鲁了。但是我知道“顾客就是上帝”，而且微笑是实用招数。
“先生，真的很抱歉，这样吧，我请您喝杯咖啡”我满脸赔笑的说。当我买来了咖啡并递给他的时候，他态度大转，甚至还给了我小费。
我的第一份工作教会我：不管在学校，公司还是运动场上，做任何事情都要尽己所力。我开始做服务员的时候，对这份工作一无所知，但是当我离开的时候，我得到了加薪和老板的赞扬。而我离开是因为我决定和David一起搭档，回归水冰。