微软PPT大赛取消
Sunday was supposed to be the first day in a wild week of contests, culminating in a stirring awards ceremony at the 2020 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship.
周日本来应该是为期一周的疯狂竞赛的第一天，2020年微软Office专家世界锦标赛将在激动人心的颁奖典礼上达到高潮。
But the pandemic has put this year's competition on hold.
但是，新冠疫情使得今年的比赛暂停了。
Every year, people aged 13 to 22 show off their wizardry with Excel, PowerPoint, Word and the rest of the Microsoft Office suite.
每年，13岁到22岁的年轻人都会用Excel、PowerPoint、Word和其他微软办公软件来展示他们的才能。
Last year, Ashlyn Dumaw, a rising senior at Green Hope High School in North Carolina, took bronze in the PowerPoint contest.
去年，北卡罗来纳州格林霍普高中正在升学的高三学生阿什琳·杜玛在ppt竞赛中获得了铜奖。
"A lot of people think that it's kind of just making a PowerPoint or some Word document about whatever you want, and then submitting it for judging, and I have actually gotten quite a few questions about it from like fellow classmates," Dumaw told NPR.
杜马对美国国家公共电台说:“很多人认为，做一个ppt或一些你想做的文档，然后提交评审就可以了。实际上，我也收到了很多同学的问题。
"But I don't think people realize, like, the complexity that goes into it and the different parts that you have to complete for the actual competition."
“但我认为人们没有意识到，比如，这其中的复杂性，以及在实际竞争中必须完成的不同部分。”
The world championship caps a long process, which in past years has involved more than a million students globally.
世界杯是一个漫长的过程，在过去几年里，全球有100多万名学生参加了这个过程。
In order to qualify for the world championship, a competitor must first pass through the state and national level competitions, and fewer than 200 people end up at the world championships.
为了有资格参加世界锦标赛，选手必须首先通过州一级和国家级的比赛，而最终参加世界锦标赛的人数不超过200人。
"I guess my favorite part of the competition itself, it would just be seeing just all the people from so many different countries there," said Seth Maddox, who took gold in the PowerPoint contest last year.
去年获得ppt大赛金奖的塞思·马多克斯说:“我想我最喜欢的部分就是能看到来自不同国家的人们齐聚一堂。”
Maddox is currently studying computer engineering at Auburn University.
马多克斯目前在奥本大学学习计算机工程。
Maddox and Dumaw shared last year's stage with students from Greece, Macau, Romania and Taiwan.
去年，马多克斯和杜马与来自希腊、中国澳门、罗马尼亚和中国台湾的学生同台竞技。
While Maddox said he is probably done competing, Dumaw is hopeful that she might have the opportunity to go for gold next year.
虽然马多克斯说他可能不会参加比赛，但杜马希望她明年有机会去争取金牌。
"This was my junior year of high school and so I had a lot of difficult classes that I needed to concentrate on for college applications," Dumaw said.
杜马说:“那是我上高三的时候，所以我有很多困难的课程，我需要集中精力准备大学申请。”
"So I decided to take a step back this year, but I was potentially planning on doing it next year, depending on what my course load looks like then. So I guess we'll have to see for next year."
“所以我当时决定今年退一步，但我可能明年还得再退一步，这要取决于我当时的课程负担。所以我想我们得看明年的情况了。”
If all goes well, there will be another round of medalists in 2021 — when the 2021 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship moves to Orlando.
如果一切顺利，2021年将会有另一轮的奖牌争夺赛——2021年的微软Office专家世界锦标赛将移师奥兰多。
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