<!-- 以下内容由sohu社区为您保存 --> 请海外的朋友帮助翻译下黎明脚步的报道吧? 4月17日,《中国日报》海外版,用英语发表了黎明脚步的事情,德国好友道佛安说:“不知道能不能发表一下中国日报的英文报道,这样我可以同时发表一下译文,我现在按照您的地址搜不到原文,一定很有意义的,也会产生影响。奥运年黎明脚步做先锋。”由于博客上小纸条、评论和留言等字数有限,在这里我专门把这篇英文复制在这里,请海外朋友费心,帮咱翻译下吧! Volunteers take up call to hit the road running
Updated: 2008-04-17 07:20 The people are speaking - and they want to jog. More than 30 people from across the country have lent their voices to the call to run, first issued by a netizen and jogging enthusiast called Dawn Footsteps last April. They are called the "dawn envoys". By the end of last month, more than 600 people around China had answered the call by taking part in the morning jogs. Though they are running in different places, these joggers were all persuaded by Dawn Footsteps. "Do not sleep in anymore, and let me call you to jog," the netizen wrote last year on an Internet posting. Having been a regular morning jogger for seven years, Dawn Footsteps has used his experiences to encourage people to get healthy by going for a run. When interviewed by Dahe Daily, the 40-year-old man from Jiaozuo, Henan province, who said he would preferred to be known by his online alias, said he was good at sports in school, but as an adult suffered from insomnia because of the stress of work. After performing poorly in a 1,000-m race in a company sports meet seven years ago, he decided to refresh himself in the fresh air of dawn. When friends heard that he had been getting up every morning to run, they all sighed with envy and then asked him to call them so that they could join. After a couple of days of calling his friends every morning, he was struck by inspiration - he should widen the call. He set up a volunteer service online for people who wanted someone to wake them up 5:30 am (6 am during the autumn and winter) for a morning run. Curious about this new "medical plan", many slugabeds around the country "booked" wake-up calls. The program caught on quickly, and people in different parts of the country soon formed teams to take part in single "dawn actions". A netizen in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, recently sent him a message to say how much he appreciated receiving the calls every day. As the number of runners grew, Dawn Footsteps decided to group all participants into 10-people teams, each with its own dawn envoy in charge of calling teammates. He also set up a blog and writes a running diary, which has a daily readership of more than 1,000. His goal is to encourage others to get out of bed and run for a more vigorous life. Since reports of the campaign were published early this month, nearly 3,000 people have sent messages asking for wake-up calls, far outstripping the ability of Dawn Footsteps and his envoys to keep pace. Dawn Footsteps told China Daily that it will take about a month to arrange to help everyone. "But we still welcome more people to join us by sending messages to 13938163156. And it would be great if you wanted to become a dawn envoy," he said. China Daily
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