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你可能不知道关于曼德拉的六件事 Nelson Mandela was a figure of international renown, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are six things you may not have known about the late South African leader. 纳尔逊·曼德拉是国际知名人物，他生活和事业的许多细节为公众所熟知。但这里提到的六件事可能是你对这位已故南非领导人并不了解的。 1. He was a boxing fan. ? In his youth, Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running. Even during the 27 years he spent in prison, he would exercise every morning. ? I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued（好奇的） by how one moved ones body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match, he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. ? Boxing is egalitarian. In the ring, rank, age, colour and wealth are irrelevant... I never did any real fighting after I entered politics. My main interest was in training; I found the rigorous exercise to be an excellent outlet for tension and stress. After a strenuous workout, I felt both mentally and physically lighter, he wrote. ? Among the memorabilia in the Mandela Family Museum in Soweto, visitors can find the world championship belt given to Mandela by American boxer Sugar Ray Leonard. ? 2. His original name was not Nelson. ? Rolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name - Nelson - in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names. ? This was common practice in South Africa and in other parts of the continent, where a person could often be given an English name that foreigners would find easier to pronounce. ? Rolihlahla is not a common name in South Africa. It is Xhosa, one of the 11 official languages in the country, spoken by about 18% of the population. It literally means pulling the branch of a tree, but its colloquial（通俗的） meaning is troublemaker. His circumcision name was Dalibunga, meaning founder o