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1、Unit2 Not Your Average TeenLots of teenage girls dream of becoming rich and famous. But its not a fantasy幻想 白日梦 for Michelle Wie. Just before her 16th birthday last fall, she became the highest-paid woman golfer in history simply by turning professional and lending her name to commercial endorsement
2、s代言产品 that will pay her between $10 million and $12 million a year, most of which will go into a trust fund 信托基金until she becomes an adult.Wie has been a celebritysilebrti 名人 since she was 13, when people began predicting she would become the Tiger Woods of womens golf. But, as correspondent Steve K
3、roft reports, that has never been enough for Wie. She wants to become the first woman ever to successfully compete with men in a professional sport. She has tried a couple of times on the PGA Tour美国职业高尔夫协会巡回赛 without embarrassing herself. As you will see, she has changed a lot since we first talked
4、to her way back in 2004, when she was 14.At the time, Wie told Kroft her ultimate goal was to play in the Masters. I think itd be pretty neat walking down the Masters fairways, she said. It was a neat dream for a 14-year-old kid. Nothing has happened in the last two years to change Wies mind or shak
5、e her confidence.She is stronger now, more mature and glamorous lmrs迷人的，富有魅力的. She has already demonstrated that she can play herself into the middle of the pack against the best men on the PGA Tour and has come within a shot of winning her first two starts on the LPGA Tour this year as a part-time
6、professional.The day before 60 Minutes interviewed her at the Fields Open 夏威夷公开赛in Honolulu, she shot a final round of 66, coming from six strokes off the lead to just miss a playoff.You won your first check yesterday, Kroft says.Uh-huh, Wie says. It was, it was really cool. I mean, I was like looki
7、ng at how much I won. I was like Oh my God. Wie says she won around $72,000. Asked whether she gets to keep that money, Wie said she didnt know. Im trying to negotiate with my dad how much I can spend of that, and stuff等等 like that. Were still working it out. But, you know, Im definitely gonna go sh
8、opping today, she says, laughing.Half of her life is spent in the adult world, competing with men and women twice her age for paychecks they may need to make expenses and dealing with the media, sponsors and marketing executives. The rest of the time she is a junior at Punahou High School in Honolul
9、u, where she is an A student优等生 and claims to lead the life of a typical 16-year-old.Well, I have a math test tomorrow that I havent studied for at all. Which Im kind of 有点儿worried for, she says, laughing. What about boys?Not yet, she says.And the boys, Im sure, at your high school are probably a li
10、ttle intimidated intimideitid 害怕的；受到恐吓的, Kroft says. Well, I dont know, I mean, thats what everyone else says, she replies, laughing. But I dont really care. Im way too busy as it is.She has already been on the David Letterman Show, graced countless magazines and played golf with former President Cl
11、inton, who, she claims, can be rather vague模糊的 when recording his score.To help manage all of this, her parents have surrounded her with the best people all that money can buy. Besides her caddy, Greg Johnston, and renowned rinaund著名的，有威望的 golf coach David Leadbetter, her retinueretinju 随行人员includes
12、 agents, a sports psychologist, physical trainer and image consultant.Two years ago, it was just Wie and her parents. Now she has an entourage ,ntur: 随从. Entourage. Thats funny, says Wie. But, you know, Im very glad for all the new members of the team. It feels nice to have, you know, people that yo
13、u can trust around you.And making decisions for you, Kroft says.Yeah. I mean its awesome:sm可怕的, Wie says. Most of the shots are still being called by her parents, B.J. and Bo, with recommendations from the William Morris Agency, which was hired by the Wie family to manage the business aspects of her
14、 career and line up endorsements from sponsors who were already standing in line.They include a ubiquitous sporting goods and apparel company, a Japanese electronics giant and a Swiss watch manufacturer who collectively contribute an eight-figure sum to the Michelle Wie trust fund.William Morris pre
15、sident David Wirtschafter says Michelle is, and will remain, their only golf client in a talent stable mostly filled with Hollywood actors, directors and writers. He sees her as someone who can easily make the jump from sports to entertainment.Asked if he thinks there is a difference anymore between
16、 sports and entertainment, Wirtschafter says: We dont think so. We think that sports is a subset of entertainment. And we feel that so many people are interested in her because almost every demographic is anxious to watch her play and anxious to see what she does next, that she will be one of the few athletes who essentially transcends sports and becomes
