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After 6 years, Hornets center and college grad Cody Zeller changes family
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历时六年，Cody Zeller终于大学毕业了!
Let’s say you had a son who started college in the fall of 2011. He
temporarily dropped out of school after his sophomore year. He finally
graduated this past week, which meant it took him six years to earn a
four-year degree.
假设你儿子在2011年考进大学，大二的时候因为不可抗拒因素而暂时停学，最后好不容易
才在上个礼拜拿到了他的毕业证书，相当于是花了六年去读一张大学文凭….. 你还会为
他庆祝吗？
Would you be celebrating this?
If you are the Zeller family, you certainly would be. That was the unusual
path that the Charlotte Hornets’ Cody Zeller took to get his degree in
business management, which he flew home to Indiana University to receive this
past weekend.
如果你是Zeller家族的一员，你一定会开心得放烟火…. 效力于夏洛特黄蜂的Cody
Zeller走了一条和大家都不一样的大学路，他在上周末飞回母校印第安纳大学领取了他的
商学院学位。
“I made progress, slowly but steadily,” Zeller said Monday in a phone
interview. “I did a lot of work in hotel rooms on the road.”
“我一直在努力，虽然有点慢” Zeller在电话上告诉记者，“我在客场比赛的旅馆里读
了很多的书”
Zeller’s dogged work ethic on the court for the Hornets translated into his
schoolwork as well. He ended up finishing with a 3.5 grade-point average. He
has taken online classes from Indiana ever since the Hornets drafted him No.
4 overall in 2013, usually one class at a time but sometimes doing two during
the summers – all the while working his day job as a 7-foot NBA center.
Zeller在球场上超群的工作态度完全可以体现在他的学业表现上，他最后以3.5的高GPA从
大学毕业。自从于2013年以第四顺位被黄蜂选进NBA后，泽勒就一直在一边读大学的在线
课程（有时候一学期一堂课，夏天的话则是两堂课），一边当一个称职的NBA七尺中锋。
Once, Zeller wrote a paper on an 18-hour flight to China with the Hornets
before a preseason game in 2015. Once he had to turn in a video for a class
while in Africa for a basketball camp. He couldn’t find a strong enough
Wi-Fi signal to send the video in, so in that case he had to ask the
professor for an extension.
Zeller曾经在飞往中国表演赛的18小时飞机上完成了一整篇论文，也曾经在参加非洲篮球
营的途中试图上传一个影片作业，结果因为网络太烂只好请求教授让他迟交作业。
“All my professors were really cooperative the whole way,” Zeller said. “I
think they knew I wasn’t trying to pull a fast one on them.”
“感谢所有教过我的教授，他们一直都非常帮助我” Zeller说 “他们知道我不是只想混
个学位而已”
The youngest of three basketball-playing brothers, Zeller has long been the
butt of a running joke in his family.
身为Zeller这个篮球家族最小的弟弟，寇弟一直是大家开玩笑的对象。
“My two brothers, Luke and Tyler, went to business school too while they
were playing,” Cody Zeller said. “But they stayed in school for four years
and graduated in four (Luke from Notre Dame, Tyler from North Carolina). So
they were always kidding me about being the college dropout in the family. It
’s been several years of those kinds of jokes.”
“我的两个哥哥Luke和Tyler也是一边打球一边完成了商学院的学位”泽勒说道，“但他
们在大学待满了四年（Luke从圣母大学毕业，Tyler则从北卡大学毕业），所以他们总是
笑我是家族里唯一的辍学生…..我已经被笑好几年了“
His favorite college course
Zeller left Indiana after his sophomore season – his draft stock was very
high at the time – and he has since played four seasons with the Hornets. In
terms of salary, he has done pretty well for a college dropout. The Hornets
recently signed him to a four-year, $56 million extension.
Zeller在大二的时候离开了印第安纳大学，他当时的选秀行情非常高，迄今为止他已经为
黄蜂效力了四个年头。单从薪水上来看的话，他已经算是中辍生中的霸主了：黄蜂刚刚提
供了他一份四年五千六百万美金的新合约。
Zeller always planned to get his degree, though, and helped himself by
getting ahead early in his college career. He entered his first real semester
of college in August 2011 at Indiana with 22 college credit hours already
complete, thanks to advanced-placement courses and a couple of other classes
he took the summer before his freshman year. He took full loads, went to
summer school between his freshman and sophomore years and was almost a year
ahead of schedule academically when he went pro.
Zeller一直都打算拿大学学位，他从刚入学的时候就已经朝这个方向努力了。他在大一的
第一个学期拿满了二十二个学分，加上他的AP学分以及暑修学分，这让Zeller在宣布参加
选秀的时候就赶上大三的进度了。
It still took Zeller the past four years to complete that final year of
college, however. Zeller said it helped that Marvin Williams, also with the
Hornets, was also working his way through college for part of that time.
Williams went to Chapel Hill for only one year before entering the NBA in
2005, and he plugged away for an additional nine before receiving his degree
in 2014.
即使如此，Zeller还是花了四年才完成这通往文凭的最后一里路。Zeller表示幸好队友
Marvin Williams也在同一时间和他一起读书，这对他帮助很大。Marvin Williams在北卡
只读了一年就进入了NBA，最后终于在苦读九年后于2014年拿到了梦寐以求的大学文凭。
I asked Zeller which of his courses he thought turned out to be the most
valuable during his time at Indiana.
我问Zeller他在大学读到最有用的一堂课是什么？ “即席演讲课” 他说，“那是我大一
读的一堂课，我不是一个很喜欢在人群前说话的人，所以我当时很不喜欢这个课。但我觉
得这应该是我上过最有用的一堂课，这让我跳脱了自己的舒适圈。我们每堂课都要做一次
题目各异的即席演讲，录影下来并且评价自己的表现。这非常困难，但是我现在已经可以
很轻松的在一堆人面前说话了“
“Public speaking,” he said. “I took it my freshman year. I’m not a fan of
public speaking at all. So I took the class and I hated it. But it was
probably the most useful one that I had. It got me out of my comfort zone. We
had to do impromptu speeches and critique ourselves using videotape. It was
tough. But now I’m at the point where I can get up in front of a crowd and
speak. It’s still not comfortable for me, but now I can do it.”
上周四，Zeller飞回了自己在印第安纳的家，并与亲朋好友共进晚餐（包括他当年在印大
的教练Tom Crean以及学术顾问）。他在周五参加了位于印大篮球主场Assembly Hall的商
学院毕业典礼，可以说是以另一种方式回到了那个他曾经拼斗的球场上。
Zeller flew home to Indiana last Thursday, had dinner with family and friends
(including former Indiana coach Tom Crean and his old academic advisor) on
Thursday night. Zeller then went to the business school graduation ceremony
Friday at Indiana’s Assembly Hall, the same venue in Bloomington, Ind.,
where he had once starred as a player.
“我不认识任何一个和我一起毕业的人，我可以随便挑个位子坐“ Zeller说道，”所以
我是自己一个人去的，但是有大概三四个人马上认出了我，然后一定要坐在我旁边。我坐
在比较后面的位置，当我站起来准备走到台上的时候，我每走过一排，大家发出的声音就
越大，等到我走到台上的时候，全场都起立鼓掌了。“
“I didn’t know anybody else graduating, and you could sit wherever you
wanted,” Zeller said. “So I was there solo, but a group of 3-4 guys
recognized me and wanted to sit next to me. They were entertaining. I was
about three-quarters of the way back. And once I stood up to go on stage,
with every row I passed to get toward the front, the buzz got a little
louder. By the time I got up on-stage, I got a pretty good ovation.”
Hornets 3-17 without Zeller
这是令人兴奋的一刻，但是Zeller应该会更希望自己现在正在NBA季后赛里厮杀… 他哥哥
Tyler以及其所属的塞尔提克现在正与巫师在东区第二轮打到总比分2-2平手。用Zeller的
话来说，黄蜂度过了”令人失望“的一个赛季，”但我非常喜欢我们球队，尤其是几个核
心的球员相处很融洽“ 他补充道。
It was a nice moment, although Zeller would have been just fine missing it.
He would prefer to be in the NBA playoffs right now, like brother Tyler,
whose Boston Celtics are tied 2-2 with the Washington Wizards in a
second-round NBA playoff series. Instead, Charlotte had a “disheartening”
season, Zeller said, quickly adding: “But I still like our team, especially
our core.”
今年泽勒迎来了他职业生涯的最佳赛季，他分别在得分（场均10.3）以及篮板（场均6.5
）上创下个人新高，并被认为是联盟最佳的挡拆手。
Cody Zeller did have his best NBA season in 2016-17, although the Hornets
were a disappointing 36-46. He posted career highs in points (10.3 per game)
and rebounds (6.5) and has become known as one of the best screen-setters in
the league.
下列数据或许能更好的体现Zeller究竟对现在的黄蜂有多重要：在他因伤缺阵的二十场比
赛里，黄蜂队输掉了其中的十七场。
Perhaps most indicative of how essential he was to the Hornets was this
statistic: Zeller missed 20 games because of various injuries, and Charlotte
was 3-17 in those games.
Zeller与黄蜂的新合约会持续到2021年，今年24岁的他相信自己已经找到了归属：他已经
开始在夏洛特找房子了，也常在推特上分享关于卡罗莱纳黑豹队的新闻。
With a contract that goes through the 2021 season, Zeller, 24, believes he is
in it for the long haul with the Hornets. He is house-shopping in Charlotte
now. He is tweeting about the Carolina Panthers (he welcomed Christian
McCaffrey to the Panthers with the hashtag #AthleticWhiteBoys).
Zeller has also already picked out a new puppy – a mix of a Bernese mountain
dog and a miniature poodle.
Zeller还不知道他会怎么运用大学文凭，”我只希望能做好准备，等到职业生涯结束后我
还有些事情可以做” 他说道。
Zeller doesn’t know what he is going to do with that college degree yet. “I
just like having it in my back pocket,” Zeller said, “knowing I will be set
to do something once my career ends.”
而对于他两个哥哥来说，那些关于中辍生的笑话终于可以停止了。
As for his older brothers, that running gag about Cody being a college
dropout is now officially over.
“他们终于可以闭嘴了”Zeller说，“虽然我觉得他们很快就会找到新的方法来笑我”。
“They can cross that one off the list now,” Zeller said. “But I’m sure
they are going to find something new to make fun of me about.”
心得：
印第安纳大学的Kelley School of business全美排名前十，算是商学院里的精英强校，
我只能说泽勒弟继承了他们家会读书的勇猛传统。（Luke Zeller读的圣母大学Mendoza
College of business以及Tyler Zeller读的北卡大学Flagler School of business同样
都是全美前十的商学院）
另外和泽勒弟同时参加选秀的Oladipo也是印大产品，但他在宣布参选的时候就已经拿到
毕业证书了。Oladipo家也非常重视读书这件事，他用了三年就把大学念完并且拿到学位
（但他读的是比商学院简单很多的Communication major）。