Rob Stickle was six years old and waiting to see The Empire Strikes Back(《帝国反击战》，星球大战系列第二部) when a ripple(涟漪；波动) passed through the crowd. His mother hoist(举起，抬起)ed him on to her shoulders to see a man loping down one of Toronto’s busiest streets.
罗布·斯蒂克尔那年六岁，正等着看《帝国反击战》，人群中忽然泛起一阵骚动。母亲把他举到肩上，让他看一个男人沿着多伦多最繁忙的街道之一慢跑而过。
“I was a Star Wars fanatic(狂热爱好者), and I remember saying to mom: ‘He has a robot leg.’”
“我当时是个《星球大战》迷，我记得我对妈妈说：‘他有一条机器腿。’”
Who Stickle saw that mid-July day in 1980 was the 21-year-old Terry Fox on his journey to run across the entire breadth(宽度；广度) of Canada. Residents packed the city’s sidewalks for miles to catch a glimpse(瞥见，看一眼). By the time Stickle saw him, and after nearly 2,200 exhausting(令人精疲力竭的) miles, Fox had completed more than half of his “Marathon of Hope” in aid of(为了帮助，为支援) cancer research. The distinctive style of Fox’s run – a kind of limping hop – was the result of a journey undertaken on a crude and ill-fitting(不合身的) prosthetic(假肢的，义肢的) leg made of plastic, leather and metal.
1980年7月中旬那天，斯蒂克尔看到的是21岁的特里·福克斯，他正在跑步横穿整个加拿大。居民们挤满了几英里长的城市人行道，只为一睹他的风采。等斯蒂克尔看到他时，福克斯已经跑完近2200英里，完成了“希望马拉松”的一半以上，为癌症研究募捐。福克斯独特的跑步姿势——一种一瘸一拐的跳跃——源于他使用的那条由塑料、皮革和金属制成的粗糙而不合身的假肢。