马刺

When their general heard the firing and the shouts in the rear he had grasped at the instant that something awful was happening to his regiment; and the thought that he, an exemplary officer, who had served so many years without ever having been guilty of the slightest shortcoming, might be held responsible by his superiors for negligence or lack of discipline, so affected him that, instantly oblivious of the insubordinate cavalry colonel and his dignity as a general, utterly oblivious even of danger and of the instinct of self-preservation, he clutched at the crupper of his saddle, and spurring his horse, galloped off to the regiment under a perfect hail of bullets that luckily missed him.

正当团长听到后面传来的枪声和呐喊声之际，他心里明白，他的兵团中发生了什么可怕的事情，他想道，他是一名供职多年、毫无过错的模范军官，他因工作疏忽或指挥不力，对不起列位首长，他这种想法使他大为惊讶，同时他已经忘却那个不驯服的骑兵上校和他这个将军应有的尊严，而重要的是，完全忘记了战争的危险和自我保全的本能。他用手抓住鞍桥，用马刺刺马，在他幸免于难的枪林弹雨下，向兵团疾驰而去。

I made it my mission to debunk the fantasies Spurs had about their team.

我把这事情当作是我一个任务，向对马刺充满幻想的人们揭示一支真实的圣安东尼奥马刺。

If Jacque Vaughn was the starting point guard for the Spurs, would they go all the way to the championship?

就说说那个Jacque Vaughn如果他是马刺的主力后卫马刺还能夺冠么？

Let's say Jacque Vaughn. If Jacque Vaughn was the starting point guard for the Spurs, would they go all the way to the championship?

就说说那个Jacque Vaughn（我记得好像是06年世锦赛德国队的后卫，现在在马刺），如果他是马刺的主力后卫马刺还能夺冠么？

I f one were only an Indian, instantly alert, and on a racing horse, leaning against the wind, kept on quivering jerkily over the quivering ground, until one shed one's spurs, for there needed no spurs, threw away the reins, for there needed no reins, and hardly saw that the land before one was smoothly shorn heath when horse's neck and head would already be gone.

如果我是个印第安人，那就时刻警惕着，骑一匹全速疾走的奔马，御风而行，在颤栗的大地上不断颠簸颤动，直跑得马刺也踢掉了，因为无需用马刺了，缰绳也扔掉了，因为无需缰绳了，而且看不见眼前的大地是一片刈得光光的荒原了，当此时也，马儿的颈子和脑袋都已经没有了。

Watching him manhandle the game, you could feel the series tilting westward, and indeed the Lakers were up two games to one after a 101-71 blowout last Friday and a 103-84 loss in Game 3 on Sunday.

看着他这样的控制比赛，你会感觉到这个系列赛已经向西方倾斜，而事实上，湖人在上个星期五101-71击溃马刺，而在星期日84-103输给马刺之后，他们还以2-1领先对手。

In our pregame meeting, he talked about how important the game was to San Antonio and how meaningless it was to Denver, and that San Antonio was going to get the benefit of the calls that night.

在我们赛前会议中，他谈到这场比赛对马刺是多么的重要，对掘金是多么没意义，而然后马刺就在那天晚上得到了哨声的照顾。

He dug his spurs into the stallion's flank and rode off beyond the orc's sight.

他把马刺刺入了公马的侧身，然后骑行在兽人的视野范围外消失了。

All of that should have hoops fans atwitter because when San Antonio does begin to dominate, the NBA will have two finely tuned machines racing on a collision course to a repeat of last year's classic, hard-fought Finals -- a rematch of the Spurs and Pistons.

不论怎样，球迷们注定要关注一个惊心动魄的季后赛了。因为一旦马刺真正开始主宰比赛，那去年那场经典的角逐势必会再次上演——两支&装备精良&的球队，马刺与活塞，将又一次展开难分胜负的决赛厮杀。

By jabbing a horses flanks with the spurs, the cowboy can encourage his mount to run faster.

马刺是附在牛仔靴子上的尖尖的金属物，牛仔用马刺戳马的胁部，就可以让马跑得更快。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。