欢迎你到... welcome you to ... welcome to ...

　　永远记住你 remember you forever always remember you(没有人能活到forever)

　　祝你有个... wish you have a ... I wish you a ...

　　给你 give you here you are

　　很喜欢... very like ... like ... very much

　　黄头发 yellow hair blond/blonde(西方人没有yellow hair的说法)

　　厕所 WC men's room/women's room/restroom

　　真遗憾 it's a pity that's too bad/it's a shame(it's a pity说法太老)

　　裤子 trousers pants/slacks/jeans

　　修理 mend fix/repair

　　入口 way in entrance

　　出口 way out exit(way out在口语中是crazy的意思)

　　勤奋 diligent hardworking/studious/conscientious

　　应该 should must/shall

　　火锅 chafing dish hot pot

　　大厦 mansion center/plaza

　　马马虎虎 so-so average/fair/all right/not too bad/OK(西方人很少使用so-so)

　　好吃 delicious good/nice/tasty/appetizing(delicious在中国被滥用)

　　尽我最大努力 try my best try/strive(try的本意就是try my best)

　　有名 famous well-known/renowned/legendary/popular(famous在中国被滥用)

　　滑稽 humorous funny/witty/amusing/entertaining

　　欺骗 to cheat to trick/to play a joke on/to con/to deceive/to rip off

　　车门 the door of the car the car's door

　　怎么拼? how to spell? how do you spell?

　　再见 bye-bye bye/see you/see you later/later(bye-bye有些孩子气)

　　玩 play go to/do(play在中国被滥用)

　　面条 noodles pasta(noodles有些孩子气)

　　据说 it is said I heard/I read/I was told

　　等等 and so on etc.

　　直到现在 till now recently/lately/thus far

　　农民 peasant farmer

　　宣传 propaganda information

 

Phelps, fresh from the Beijing Olympics where he won a record eight gold medals, said he’s never competed in a backstroke event at a major international meet or in the 100-meter freestyle.

“No breaststroke, no distance swimming, no open water swimming,” Phelps said. “At least those guys will still be my friends.”

The 23-year-old American also confirmed that the 2012 games will be his last Olympics.

“I’ve never wanted to go beyond 30,” he said. “I may go a few years beyond the Olympics. I said to my coach, ‘Don’t get any ideas because I don’t want to compete beyond 30,’ and he said, ‘That’s good because I don’t want to coach you past the age of 30.’”

Phelps has said Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are the two superstars he’d most like to meet following his exploits in China, and he could be emulating one of them already.

Woods took time at the pinnacle of his career to remodel his swing to renew his dominance, and Phelps is speaking of completely switching the training program he has followed for the past decade.

Phelps said the changes suggested by coach Bob Bowman could help rejuvenate him mentally and physically after what he described as the most grueling period of his life.

“Bob said to me that he’s going to take everything he’s done coaching me and throw it out the door and try something completely different, just to see how it works,” Phelps said. “We’ll try a bunch of new things. If we’re successful, great. If not, we can go back to what we’ve been doing.”

Only a supremely confident athlete would contemplate moving away from a program that has brought a record 14 Olympic gold medals, an unprecedented eight at one games and the unofficial title of history’s greatest swimmer.

But “confident” sums up Phelps pretty well.

Despite arriving in London late Saturday, Phelps posed good-naturedly with one of his medals through 10 minutes of blinding camera flashes—adopting each of the artificial poses requested of him with an easy manner and enthusiasm.

Phelps said he was enjoying his celebrity status, but deflected suggestions that the rock star treatment could distract him from being as dominant in 2012 as he was in 2008.

“If you’re having fun, that’s really all that matters,” Phelps said. “You can still do everything and still be successful. You can do anything and everything. One of the biggest things I’ve learned over last four years is that anything’s possible.

“I’ve had some pretty lofty dreams in my head. Those dreams and those goals are going to stay until they’re accomplished,” Phelps added. “It’s not going to be easy getting there, there are going to be some bumps in the road here and there, but everyone has bumps in the road and it depends how you get over them.”