6.1/ invariably 6.8/ overprotected 7.1/ flattered 7.1/ inevitably 7.4/ privileged 7.5/ rightfully 8.9/ discard 8.12/ needless to say 8.20/ disadvantaged 9.6/ misguide 10.1/ fundamentally 10.7

In an increasingly complicated and disorderly world, sports are still an arena in which we can regularly witness a certain kind of greatness.

2.7 在一个日益复杂无序的世界中，体育仍是一个可以让我们时常目睹某种伟大表现的竞技场。

2. Yet there’s something of a paradox here, for the very qualities a society tends to seek in its heroes---selflessness, social consciousness, and the like---are precisely the opposite of those needed to transform a talented but otherwise unremarkable neighborhood kid into a Michael Jordan. 3.1 然而这显然是自相矛盾的，社会想从英雄身上寻求的品质，如大公无私、社会意识等等，恰好与运动员所需的品质大相径庭，用这些品质是无法把一个有体育天赋而在其他方面表现平平的街坊小孩变成迈克尔.乔丹的。

On top of this, our society reinforces these traits by the system it has created to produce athletes--- a system characterized by limited responsibility and enormous privilege. 2.12 此外，我们的社会用它创建的培养运动员的制度进一步强化了这些特征。该制度的特征是：责任有限，待遇丰厚。

4. And for those successful enough to rise to the level of big-time college sports, the “reward” is often an artificially controlled social