网坛美女库尔尼科娃

She won't win The French Open, but who cares? Anna Kournikova is living proof that even in this age of supposed enlightenment1, a hot2 body can count as much as a good backhand3.
“ I'm the perfect age right now,” Anna Kournikova says with great delight. “ I can be a little girl or I can be grown up. I can be whichever I want.”
And like that, both woman and child, she can also by turns be cagey4 or guileless5, wise or foolish, cocky6 or dependent, tender or tough, coquettish7 or direct, beautiful or...
Beautiful.
As Raymond wrote in Farewell,My Lovely, “ It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bi? shop8 kick a hole in a stained glass window.” Anna is that kind of gorgeous9, and Anna knows it.
Oh, she protests, properly, “ But I am a tennis player. There are thousands of beautiful women, but how many have the ability to play tennis, to be a personality10? If I would be ranked 500, no one would look at me.”
This is true to a point. But Kournikova is certainly not ranked 500th.To be sure,she isn't No.1 either, but she is 15th in the world, and that is good enough. There has never been anyone quite like Anna Kournikova in sports. Never anyone so rich and famous the world over just for being a beautiful athlete. Jonas, who played mixed doubles with Kournikova this year in Australia, says, “ It's quite amazing to stand on the court with her and see so many guys going nuts.”
Now she is the beauty who plays tennis. But what if she becomes the beauty who never wins at tennis? Says Billie Jean King, “ Being a beautiful woman is a lot like being a tennis player: You know the best of it has to end when you're still young. To be both, as Anna is, can be hard. After all, from age 10 she's heard two things over and over: how beautiful she is and how great a player she is.” Of course, at least for now, Anna's beauty is hers to keep, unthreatened, undiminished.


她不会赢得法国网球公开赛桂冠，但谁又在意呢？安娜?库尔尼科娃活生生地证明：即使在这个应该是开明的时代，一个美人胎子可与优秀的反手击球技巧同等重要。
“我现在风华正茂，”安娜?库尔尼科娃兴高采烈地讲道，“我既可以是一个小姑娘，也可以是一个成年人。我可以随心所欲。”
就像这样，她既是成人又是孩子；既可谨慎，又可坦率；既可聪明，又可糊涂；既可高傲，又可顺从；既可温柔，又可粗暴；既可卖弄风姿，又可直截了当；既是美丽漂亮，又是……
还是美丽漂亮。
如同雷蒙在《永别了，我的爱》中所述，“它是一个金发碧眼女郎。一个会使主教将彩色玻璃窗踢个洞的金发碧眼女郎。”安娜就属那种光彩照人，而这一点她自己也清楚。
噢，她抗议了，但不过份，“我还是一名网球运动员。世上美女如云，可她们中有多少会打网球，成为一个有名的人物呢？如果我排名在500位，可能就没有人注意我了。”
这话不无道理。但是库尔尼科娃自然不会排名第500位的。当然，她也不是第一位，而是世界排行第15位，但这已经相当不错了。在体育界，还从来没有像安娜?库尔尼科娃一样的人。世上还从来没有一位貌美的运动员如此富有，如此出名。今年在澳大利亚与库尔尼科娃进行混双合作的乔纳斯这样讲道，“与她共同站在球场上，见到那么多狂热观众真令人感到惊奇。”
现在她是网球美女。但是如果她成为一位从不会赢球的美女该怎么办呢？比利?吉恩?金讲过这样一席话，“做一名美女子与做一名网球手非常相像。要知道，在你还年轻时，最好的时光便不得不告结。而要像安娜那样两者兼而有之，谈何容易。毕竟从10岁起，她就听惯了这样两句话——她是多么的美丽，她的网球打得又是多么的出色。”
当然，至少在目前，安娜的美丽依旧，还没有受到威胁，还没有褪色。

1.enlightenment[in5laitnmEnt]n.开明，启迪
2.hot[hCt]adj.[俚]极好的，呱呱叫的，让人满意的
3.backhand[5bAk5hAnd]n.(网球运动中的)反手击球
4.cagey[5keidVi]adj.[口]谨小慎微的
5.guileless[^aillIs]adj.坦率的，单纯的
6.cocky[5kCki]adj.[口]趾高气扬的
7.coquettish[kEu5ketiF]adj.卖弄风情的
8.bishop[5biFEp]n.(天主教、东正教等的)主教
9.gorgeous[ 5^C:dVEs ]adj.华丽的，灿烂的
10.personality[7pE:sE5nAliti]n.名人