【新视野大学英语】（第一册）在奥运会上最后一次跳水(3/6)

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概述：
由于我肤色黑，常常遭到学校里孩子们的辱骂。。。
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Samoan
PS:本文一处连字符According to my mother, my natural parents were Samoan and only teenagers when I was born, so they gave me up foradoption. When I was only 18 months old, I started gym classes. At ten, I explored doing gym exercises off the diving board at the pool.
Because of my dark skin, kids at school called me names; I often got mugged coming home from school. My diving made me feel good about myself when my peers made me feel stupid. In the seventh grade, I started taking drugs.
At 16, I knew I had a shot at the 1976 Olympics. At the trials, one month prior to the finals, I took the first place on the ten-meter platform and on the springboard!母亲告诉我，我的生身父母是萨摩亚人，我出生时他们才十几岁，所以他们把我送给别人抚养。我18个月大的时候便开始接受体操训练。10岁时我便在游泳池的跳板上训练。
由于我肤色黑，常常遭到学校里孩子们的辱骂。放学回家时常常遭到欺负。尽管同龄孩子们让我觉得自己不如别人，但跳水却使我对自己有了信心。上七年级时，我开始吸毒。
在16岁时，我获得参加1976年奥运会的机会。在决赛前一个月举行的预赛中，我获得了十米跳台和跳板的第一名！