艾瑪·拉杜卡努榮獲BBC年度體育人物

江西 謝 麗

英國華裔少女艾瑪·拉杜卡努被評為BBC年度體育人物，成為2006年以來首位獲此殊榮的女性。

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1Teenage US Open champion Emma Raducanu has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) 2021.

2Raducanu， then 18， ended Britain's 44-year wait for a women's Grand Slam (大滿貫) singles champion with her remarkable victory at Flushing Meadows.

3In the public vote， diver Tom Daley placed second and swimmer Adam Peaty was third.Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling， boxer Tyson Fury， and Great Britain's most successful Paralympian Sarah Storey were also shortlisted for the main award.

4“It's such an honour just to be among these nominees (被提名人). Congrats to you and all your achievements，” Raducanu said. “I'm really happy with this. I've watched Sports Personality of the Year growing up and it's an honour to be among those past winners. I'm happy for British tennis as well， and that we've managed to get this award...again! ”

5In winning the US Open title in September with a 6-4 6-3 victory over fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez， Raducanu became the youngest women's Grand Slam champion since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004， the youngest Briton to win a Grand Slam title and the first woman to win the US Open without dropping a set since Serena Williams in 2014.

6September's stunning success made her one of the UK's youngest sporting millionaires and sought-after stars， attending the Met Gala and a James Bond premiere and being tipped to become the country's richest athlete， partly thanks to her half-Chinese， half-Romanian heritage.

7Speaking before her victory， she said she was still the same girl from Bromley，adding， “I feel the complete same and everyone near me is definitely the same and keeping me in my place 100 percent.”

8“It's been great how everyone has been so welcoming and positive when I got back home and around. But nothing really changed in terms of my mindset. My parents are never ones to really make a big deal out of anything that I do， and that's good. They've been normal: nothing too big; nothing too low. That's just the way they brought me up.”

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Ⅰ. Analyze the difficult sentence in the text

In winning the US Open title in September with a 6-4 6-3 victory over fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez， Raducanu became the youngest women's Grand Slam champion since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004， the youngest Briton to win a Grand Slam title and the first woman to win the US Open without dropping a set since Serena Williams in 2014. 9月份，拉杜卡努在美國網(wǎng)球公開賽中以6∶4和6∶3的比分戰(zhàn)勝對手萊拉·費爾南德斯后，成為自瑪麗亞·莎拉波娃2004年溫網(wǎng)大滿貫以來最年輕的大滿貫女單冠軍、年紀最小的獲得大滿貫頭銜的英國人，以及自塞雷娜·威廉姆斯2014年的賽場表現(xiàn)以來首位不失一局贏得美國網(wǎng)球公開賽的女性。

【點石成金】In winning the US Open title in September 是介詞短語作狀語，the youngest women's Grand Slam champion since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004，the youngest...since Serena Williams in 2014作became的并列賓語。

Ⅱ. Memorize some text-centered chunks

grow up 長大；成熟

drop a set 輸一局

sought-after star 廣受歡迎的明星

be tipped to do 預言……獲勝；事先說……會成功

thanks to 幸虧；由于

in terms of 在……方面；就……而言

make a big deal out of 對……大驚小怪（或小題大做）

bring up 養(yǎng)育；撫養(yǎng)