61歲倪夏蓮代表盧森堡出戰
Kelly and Lucas are friends. They are having a conversation.
凱莉和盧卡斯是朋友。他們正在對話。
Kelly: Hey Lucas, do you know Ni Xia Lian?
凱莉：嘿，盧卡斯，你知道倪夏蓮嗎？
Lucas: No, I don’t. Who is she?
盧卡斯：不知道，她是誰？
Kelly: She just turned 61 on July 4th. She’s amazing! She has played in six Olympics!
凱莉：她剛在7月4日滿61歲。她很厲害！她已經參加了六屆奧運會！
play(v.)參加(比賽、遊戲)、演奏、播放(n.)戲劇、劇本
Lucas: Really? That’s cool. Why did it take her so long to get to the Olympics?
盧卡斯：真的嗎？那太酷了。為什麼她花那麼久才參加奧運？
sth. take sb. time to VR某人花～時間去做～
Kelly: She missed the 1988 Seoul Olympics because it was very hard to qualify in China. Later, she moved to Luxembourg and started playing for them.
凱莉：她錯過了1988年首爾奧運，因為在中國很難取得資格。後來她移居到盧森堡，開始代表他們出賽。
qualify(v.)取得資格、符合資格qualified(adj.)具備資格的be qualified for有資格～play for…代表～出賽
Lucas: So she went to the Olympics for the first time when she was 37?
盧卡斯：所以她第一次參加奧運是在37歲的時候？
Kelly: Yes, that’s right! And she just beat a young Turkish player at the Paris Olympics. That win made her the oldest table tennis player to win at the Olympic Games.
凱莉：對，沒錯！而且她剛在巴黎奧運會上擊敗了一位年輕的土耳其選手。那場勝利使她成為奧運歷史上最年長的獲勝桌球選手。
beat(v.)擊敗、打敗beat a record打破紀錄=break a recordbeat sb. to it比他人早先做beat sb. down說服某人減價
Lucas: Wow, that’s incredible. What an inspiring story!
盧卡斯：哇，那真是太不可思議了。這真是一個鼓舞人心的故事！
incredible(adj.)不可思議的inspiring(adj.)鼓舞人心的inspire(v.)激勵、鼓舞
Kelly: Definitely. It shows that you can achieve great things no matter how old you are.
凱莉：確實如此。這顯示了不論年齡，你都能達成偉大的成就。
achieve(v.)(尤指經過努力)完成、達到、實現achieve the goal達到目標=reach the goalno matter無論