1.Muhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died on Friday in a Phoenix-area hospital.

解析：charismatic and controversial 人格魅力（領袖氣質）和爭議的

參考譯文：三次世界重量級拳擊冠軍得主穆罕默德•阿里(Muhammad Ali)是20世紀最有人格魅力，也最具爭議的體育人物，是那個動蕩時代的代表性人物之一。當地時間周五他于鳳凰城附近某醫院逝世，享年74歲。

2.Ali was the most thrilling if not the best heavyweight ever, carrying into the ring a physically lyrical, unorthodox boxing style that fused speed, agility and power more seamlessly than that of any fighter before him.

解析：1. Lyrical 詩意

      2. fused 融合

      3. speed, agility and power 速度，靈活性和力量

（這些都是很好的寫作詞匯 。）

      4. the ring 拳擊臺

      5. unorthodox 與眾不同的

參考譯文：阿里即便不是有史以來最好的重量級拳擊手，也是最激動人心的一位，他把一種與眾不同的拳擊風格帶上拳臺，賦予形體以詩意，將速度、機敏與力量融為一體，比他之前的任何拳手都要完美。

3.But he was more than the sum of his athletic gifts. An agile mind, a buoyant personality, a brash self-confidence and an evolving set of personal convictions fostered a magnetism that the ring alone could not contain.

解析：1.agile mind 聰敏的頭腦 

      2. a buoyant personality樂觀的性格

      3. a brash self-confidence高傲的自信

      4. an evolving set of personal convictions 一套不斷發展的個人信念

      5. magnetism 磁石般的魅力

      定語從句：that the ring alone could not contain. 拳臺都裝不下了(在拳臺之外)

參考譯文：但他的魅力不僅僅在于體育方面的天賦，他還擁有聰敏的頭腦、樂觀的性格、高傲的自信，以及一套不斷發展的個人信念，令他在拳臺之外也煥發出磁石般的魅力。

4.Ali was as polarizing a superstar as the sports world has ever produced — both admired and vilified in the 1960s and ’70s for his religious, political and social stances.

解析：1. Polarizing 毀譽參半

            2. vilified 詆毀

           3. stance 態度,觀點

參考譯文:阿里是體育界最毀譽參半的超級巨星——20世紀六七十年代，因為自己的信仰、政治與社會態度，他既受到贊美，也受到詆毀。

5.But Ali had his hypocrisies, or at least inconsistencies. How could he consider himself a “race man” yet mock the skin color, hair and features of other African-Americans, most notably Joe Frazier, his rival and opponent in three classic matches?

解析：1.hypocrisies 虛偽

             2. inconsistencies 前后不一致，前后矛盾

            3. mock 嘲笑

4. notably 特別是

參考譯文：但是阿里也有虛偽的一面，至少是前后矛盾的一面。他說自己“為自己的種族而驕傲”，但卻嘲笑其他非裔美國人的膚色、頭發和體征，特別是嘲笑他的競爭對手與三次經典比賽中的對手喬•弗雷澤(Joe Frazier)。

今天的句子：

6. “We forgive Muhammad Ali his excesses,” an Ali biographer, Dave Kindred, wrote, “because we see in him the child in us, and if he is foolish or cruel, if he is arrogant, if he is outrageously in love with his reflection, we forgive him because we no more can condemn him than condemn a rainbow for dissolving into the dark. Rainbows are born of thunderstorms, and Muhammad Ali is both.”

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