Waking from the Dream
大梦方觉醒

Pro basketball was not always as we know it today -- ultimate arbiter of cool; dictator of fashion; conduit of corporate America's great marketing visions. How the NBA has taken a foothold of the American culture over the last quarter of the 20th century, pulling even with, and in many ways displacing, all other sports as America's favorite, was, in no small measure, as a result of a rare generation of players who, as it turned out, were the right men for the right time.
ultimate arbiter of cool; dictator of fashion; conduit of corporate America's great marketing visions
绝对酷的权威，时尚的领袖，美国伟大商业形象的传播渠道
foothold
据点；立足点
displacing
vt. 移置, 转移, 取代, 置换

Call them the Dream Team Generation

They all became familiar men to us, the first superstars of a plugged-in generation: Magic and Bird, Jordan and Pippen, Stockton and Malone, Barkley, Ewing, Robinson, Olajuwon, Drexler and Mullin; beamed to us 24 hours a day through cable and satellite, the Internet and the never-ending chatter of talk radio. They were our heroes and our villains. We felt outrage and vicarious glory because of them. We bought soft drinks and sneakers from them, made our fast food preferences because of them. We believed we could fly and rediscovered the art of passing because of them. We mimicked their hipness, or admired their calmness under pressure.
Magic and Bird, Jordan and Pippen, Stockton and Malone, Barkley, Ewing, Robinson, Olajuwon, Drexler and Mullin
魔术师约翰逊和伯德、乔丹和皮蓬、斯托克顿和马龙、巴克利、尤因、罗宾逊、奥拉朱旺、德雷克斯勒、和穆林
beam
v.播送
villain
n 坏人；反面角色
outrage
n. 暴行, 侮辱, 愤怒
vicarious
adj.替代的；藉…而感到的
mimic
vt. 模仿, 摹拟

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