Car Speeding

Car Speeding

Jason has always loved driving fast and living on the edge. Even as a young man growing up in Vancouver, Canada, he was a risk taker.

Journalist: You did 1)extreme things. I mean, you bungee jumped and you had motorcycles, and you were always a 2)daredevil, were you not?

Jason: Yes. I was always, you know, when I was 16 everyone else got a car, I got a motorcycle. I just wanted to live every minute. I was a 3)rugby player, I was a 4)hockey player. I love to challenge myself. And I love to compete, and I just love all that.

And from his earliest years, Jason loved another risky 1 business, acting 2. His big break came at just 21 years old on Beverly Hills 90210. But he was also still involved in car racing 3.

"You don’t get to drive those cars just because you’re famous. You get to drive those cars because you are a racecar driver.”         

---Jason Priestly

And he didn’t just race cars. Jason’s thrill seeking extended to piloting 50-foot Cigarette Boats in dangerous ocean races. Jason has 5)crashed or spun 4 out several times on the car 6)racetrack and once in a boat race, his 7)restlessness turned to 8)recklessness in a Los Angeles neighborhood.

Journalist: So if I say to you, are you a daredevil, what do you say?

Jason: No, I don’t think so. I don’t think that I’m a daredevil. I think that I like to challenge myself.

Journalist: But you’ve had three accidents, two in cars and one in a boat. Right?

Jason: Sure.

Journalist: Don’t say sure, doesn’t everybody, I mean. You’re a little accident-prone, maybe.

Jason: No, I don’t think I’m accident-prone. I think anytime you’re competing like that, whether you’re racing cars or you’re racing boats, you know, I think that incidents happen. Unfortunately me being me, you just heard about it.

Journalist: Sure. Were you ever tempted 5 or are you tempted now to quit racing?

Jason: There was a time right after the accident where had you asked me that question I would have said, “Yeah, I’m all done. I’ll never race again.” But as the months go on and as the memory of what had happened 9)recedes, you know, I start thinking about getting back into a racecar.

Journalist: Oh, Jason!

Jason: But I’m, you know, I don’t want to do anything that’s going to 10)jeopardize 7 my ability to work as an actor. Because you know as much as I love racecar driving, I love being an actor.

Journalist: The devil is not racing cars for you, is he? You may indeed get in that car again.

Jason: Yeah. Do you see the smile that put on my face just thinking about driving a racecar?

极速奔驰

贾森一直都喜欢开快车，并勇于尝试冒险。他在加拿大的温哥华长大，还年纪轻轻时，他就是一位冒险家了。

记者：你做过很多极端冒险的事。比如，你蹦级，有几辆摩托车，一直天不怕地不怕，对吗？

贾森：是的。我一直这样。我16岁时，别人都有汽车，我只有摩托车。我想争分夺秒地活着。我打橄榄球，也打曲棍球。我爱挑战自我，喜欢竞争，并且只爱这些。

更从早年起，贾森爱上了另一种冒险行业--表演。出演《飞越比佛利》是他演艺生涯的一大突破，当时他才21岁。但是与此同时，他也参与赛车运动。

“你能不能驾驶，并不靠名气。你要是一位赛车手，才有资格驾驶。”

-贾森·普莱斯利

贾森不只赛车，他进行的刺激运动还有在风险性大的海上摩托赛上驾驶50英尺长的西格莱特赛艇。在赛车跑道上，贾森数次撞车和冲出跑道，在赛艇中也发生过一次意外。在洛杉矶，他的好动变成了胆大鲁莽。

记者：如果我说你胆大鲁莽，你会怎样？

贾森：不，我不这样认为。我认为我不是蛮干，我只是喜欢自我挑战而已。

记者：但你出过三次事故，两次是赛车，一次是赛船，对吧？

贾森：当然。

记者：不要说当然，不是每个人都出事的。可能你特别容易发生事故。

贾森：不，不是的。我认为凡是比赛，不管赛车也好赛船也好，只要竞争就难免有事故发生。不幸的是，因为我比较有名，我一出事你就会听说到。

记者：当然了。那你是否有过或者会不会有退出比赛的打算？

贾森：如果你这个问题是在我出事后的那段时间问的，我会说：“是的，结束；我再也不会去赛车了。”但几个月下来，随着对事故记忆的淡去，我又开始考虑赛车了。

记者：噢，贾森！

贾森：但是你要知道，任何会危及到我表演能力的事情，我都不会去做。因为我爱赛车，也同样爱表演。

记者：你并不觉得赛车棘手可怕，对吧？你会再次发动你的赛车。

贾森：是的。一想到赛车，我脸上就会笑开花，你看到了吗？

注释:

1) extreme [iks5tri:m] a. 极端的

2) daredevil [5dZE7devl] n. 铤而走险的人

3) rugby [5rQ^bi] n. 橄榄球

4) hockey [5hCki] n. 马球

5) crash [krAF] v. 碰撞，撞击

6) racetrack [5reistrAk] n. 跑道

7) restlessness [5restlisnis] n. 不安宁

8) recklessness [5reklisnis] n. 鲁莽

9) recede 6 [ri5si:d] v. 后退

10) jeopardize [5dVepEdaiz] v. 危害