A Life Beyond Sports超越运动的人生

I’ve had second thoughts2， and my second thoughts have done double-takes3， wondering why the cliche “do or die” has been allowed to go on this long in sports vocabulary. In three words， the most affirming of joys of sport get killed， and are replaced by a sense of bitter desperation to succeed that puts indescribable4 pressure on athletes competing at any level. Do-or-die needs to be replaced by play-and-live as sport’s clarion call5.

我曾有疑惑，这种疑惑让我犹豫之下再度思考，为什么我们能任由“不成功毋宁死”这个陈词滥调在体育词汇里存在了那么长时间。（剩余7396字）