You may call me a nerd, but I think it’s more important to study hard than to be a jock and play football or basketball. The trouble is, though, the girls all want to go with jocks , the guys with the muscles and team sweaters.

你可以叫我书呆子,但是我认为用功念书要比做一个漂亮男子和踢足球、打垒球更重要。可是,问题是那些女孩子都要和那些长得帅的男学生和那些身强体壮的球队队员出去玩。

||1:MARCO RUBIO’S shoulder is sore.||2:The junior senator from Florida has just had a cortisone injection to ease the pain from an old football injury.||3:Congress is not short of square-jawed jocks .||4:Given that politics often resembles a professional sport for the over-40s, this may be no coincidence.||5:Mr Rubio, who won a college football scholarship, is an extreme case: his autobiography contains 26 references to the Miami Dolphins.||6:This mania for running back and forth can overshadow another, distinctly un-jock, interest of Mr Rubio’s, which is in social policy.

||1:马克罗·鲁比奥最近肩膀酸痛。||2:这位来自佛罗里达的中年译员刚刚进行了可的松激素注射，以缓解身上因踢足球所受旧伤的疼痛。||3:国会里从来不乏这种方颌运动健将。||4:鉴于政治一向像是40多岁中年人踢的职业比赛，这也许并不是巧合。||5:曾获得过大学足球奖学金的鲁比奥则是其中的极端典型，他的自传里提到迈阿密海豚队的次数高达26次。||6:这种对运动场上跑动的狂热掩盖了鲁比奥另外一个显然不那么运动的兴趣，即对社会政策的关注。

Of course, all this research does nothing to help explain dumb jocks .

当然，所有这些研究都无法解释大学里四肢发达、头脑简单的运动员的存在。

She adopted the trappings of student government kids, alternative potheads, debate geeks, jocks , partiers, and ultimately mean cheerleaders.

她做过学生自治会的标志、非主流的瘾君子、辩论小组成员、运动员、党员，最后是自私的啦啦队队长。

None of the other girls at the McCluskys’ swimming pool were jocks .

麦克拉斯基家的大泳池中的其他女孩子们都不是运动员。

No girls, just a bunch of jocks sitting around drinking beer.

没有女孩子，只有一群士兵围在一起坐着喝啤酒。

Those square pegs may not have an easy time in school. They may be mocked by jocks and ignored at parties.

那些另类人士在上学时可能并不轻松。他们遭受运动好手们的嘲讽，在聚会上无人搭理他们。

You probably know athletic jocks or creative artists that don’t seem to get a lot done.

你或许认识那些大学里的运动员或者有创意的艺术家，他们似乎不能做很多事。

This game was particularly popular with undergrad jocks and competitive guys from the professional schools.

去打下午场大多都是爱运动的本科生和一些来自专业学院的好斗的家伙们。

Thiel and Levchin also wanted workaholics who were not MBAs, consultants, frat boys, or, God forbid, jocks .

希尔和莱佛青还需要不是MBA的工作狂，咨询师，大学男孩或者像Godforbid似的玩重金属乐队的人物，运动员等等。

Consider John Milius’ Red Dawn (1984), in which a small group of Colorado high school jocks battle a Soviet occupation.

在约翰·米利厄斯（JohnMilius）的《赤色黎明》（1984）里，一小群来自科罗拉多高中的乡下小孩同苏联的侵占做抗争。