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内行说In Experts’ Opinion
如果你不知道球是怎么踢的,那么你只管把球往网里边踢,赛后我们再来讨论你踢得对不对。——英格兰足球队领队比尔·香克利
If you’re not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we’ll discuss your options afterwards.
——Bill Shankly, English soccer manager
足球是一项技术运动,我们踢它们记下,它们踢我们几下。——英国前足球运动员、领队格厄汉姆·罗伯茨
Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit. ——Graham Roberts
足球规则很简单,基本上就是这样的:球动了就踢;球要不动,踢到它动为止。
——威尔士足球队球员、领队菲尔·伍斯南
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does. ——Phil Woosnam, Welsh soccer player and manager
女人说In Women’s Opinion
为什么22个球员却只有一个球?你要给他们每人一个球,他们肯定不会再为球打架了。 ——佚名
Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they’d stop fighting for it. ——Author Unknown
我不喜欢足球比赛,不过是一场短裤大战。我更喜欢艺术。 ——歌手夏奇拉
I don’t like the competition part of soccer. It’s a war in short pants. I prefer art.
——Shakira
外行说In Amateurs’ Opinion
我讨厌球赛,根本就找不出那里面有什么乐趣或益处可言。要我对足球显示出勇气来可就太难了。对我而言,踢足球不是为了取乐,而是另一种形式的打斗。
——英国作家乔治·奥威尔
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
——George Orwell, English writer
足球对于大大咧咧的女孩儿来说是项非常好的运动,对于秀秀气气的男孩子就不是了。 ——爱尔兰作家奥斯卡·王尔德
Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
——Oscar Wilde, Irish writer
(摘自2010年7-8月《英语广场·美文》)