Guessing it wasn't to become a professional athlete.

看来不是当职业球员去了。

Imagine, for example, that you want to be a professional athlete.

举个例子，想象一下，如果你想成为一个专业的运动员。

Kind of a metaphor for my dreams of being a professional athlete.

似乎暗示了我想成为一个职业运动员的梦想。

And let's say the student says, " I want to be a professional athlete."

假设一个学生说，“我想成为一名职业运动员。”

You know, being a professional athlete demands a great deal of time and focus.

你们知道的，作为一名职业运动员，需要花费大量的时间和精力。

But, unless he becomes a professional athlete in the National Football League, he cannot make any money from being famous.

不过，只要他还不是全国橄榄球联赛的职业运动员，他就无法通过名气来获取收入。

Now there's a lot more evidence of how powerful a celebrity— especially a professional athlete— can be in influencing children's behavior.

现在有更多的证据表明一个名人，特别是一个职业运动员，可以影响孩子的行为。

Although I've been a baseball fan all my life, I had never done any sports reporting, never interviewed a professional athlete.

虽然我一直都是一个棒球迷，但是我从未做过体育报道、从未采访过职业运动员。

I'm a professional athlete, and my training schedule can be a lot.

我是一名职业运动员，我的训练日程可以很多。

Coming up, we'll find out what it's like to be a professional athlete.

接下来 我们来看看职业运动员是什么样的。

What do you think that a professional athlete does on the day of their big game?

您认为职业运动员在大型比赛当天会做什么？

Unless you're a professional athlete, most of our calorie expenditure is accounted for by our basal metabolic rate.

除非你是一名职业运动员，否则我们的大部分卡路里消耗都是由我们的基础代谢率决定的。

He was more like a lumberjack or a professional athlete of some sort to restart than anything else.

他更像一个伐木工人 或者是某种职业运动员 比其他任何东西都要重新开始。

Every few years, a professional athlete touches the heart and soul of a city in a way that has nothing to do with athleticism.

每隔几年，就会有职业运动员以跟运动能力没有丝毫关系的方式触动一座城市的心灵。

The experience molded her character, enabling her to make swift decisions and strike a balance between her roles as a mother and a professional athlete.

这段经历塑造了她的性格，使她能够迅速做出决定，并在母亲和职业运动员之间取得平衡。

So many of you just wanted to know what it's like to be a professional athlete, and I don't blame you.

你们很多人只是想知道职业运动员是什么感觉 我不怪你们。

And today, those sports superstars are going to answer the questions youve sent us about basketball and what it's like to be a professional athlete.

今天 这些体育巨星将回答你发给我们的关于篮球和职业运动员是什么感觉的问题。

As opposed to… Hey, wait a second. In all these other global sports… if I'm in the two hundreds, three hundreds… I'm actually well entrenched as a professional athlete.

而不是… … 等等，在所有其他的全球性运动中，如果我能进入 200 名，300 名，那么我作为一名职业运动员的地位实际上是根深蒂固的。

Similarly, my core strengths also allow me to rule out careers that wouldn't fit me too well, such as a professional athlete, salesperson, musician, or nightclub manager.

同样，我的核心优势也允许我排除不太适合我的职业，例如职业运动员、销售员、音乐家或夜总会经理。

Yeah, well I guess it's a bit more than just running around and having fun, like it actually takes a lot of dedication, time and effort to become a professional athlete.

嗯，我想不只是四处活动和享受乐趣，要成为职业运动员，还需要很多热情、时间和努力。