Football fiasco一敗涂地的足球
May 18th 2006 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
SILVIO BERLUSCONI says it was a rigged[1] contest that his side won. Not Italy's election: its football championship. His team, AC Milan, finished second in both the past two seasons to Juventus. （1）But the Turin team is at the centre of a match-fixing scandal that may be the biggest even this country has seen. On May 16th, less than a month before the start of the soccer World Cup in Germany, Italy's top sporting body, the Olympic committee, put the national football federation under emergency rule. The federation's president had q_______① after claims that he ignored evidence of misconduct by officials, referees and players. The committee chose a 75-year-old former stockmarket regulator, Guido Rossi, in his place.
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西爾維奧•貝魯斯科尼說，他那一方贏的是一場被操縱的比賽。他這說的不是意大利選舉，而是足球賽。他的AC米蘭隊在過去兩個賽季都排在尤文圖斯之后居于次席。但是尤文圖斯（注：尤文圖斯俱樂部位于意大利西北部城市都靈）目前正陷入意大利有史以來的一件操縱比賽的丑聞漩渦之中。（譯者按：“fix”在這里是“操控，操縱”的意思，“this country has seen”本義是“該國所見證的”，意譯為“有史以來”。）5月16日，亦即距德國世界杯開幕不到一個月的時候，意大利體育組織——奧委會對國家足協(xié)實行了緊急管制。由于被指稱對比賽官員、裁判以及球員的不軌表現(xiàn)坐視不理，足協(xié)主席已經(jīng)離任，奧委會挑選了75歲的前股市調(diào)節(jié)員吉多•羅西接替他的位置。
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尤文圖斯總經(jīng)理盧奇亞諾•莫吉也于5月14日辭職。根據(jù)竊聽得到的一段電話交談記錄，莫吉經(jīng)常為自己的球隊安排合適的裁判人選，對于那些袒護球隊的人給予獎賞，否則就加以懲罰。檢察官的記錄表明，他吹噓自己曾將比賽官員關(guān)在更衣室里以示報復(fù)，還慫恿一名電視記者篡改一個慢動作回放鏡頭，以隱瞞一項有利于尤文圖斯的錯誤決議。莫吉操縱比賽名聞遐邇，甚至連貝魯斯科尼政府的內(nèi)政部長也曾打電話給他，請他給他家鄉(xiāng)一支乙級俱樂部提供幫助。（譯者按：“l(fā)ocal”除了有“地方的，本地的”的意思之外，還可指“家鄉(xiāng)的，鄉(xiāng)土的”；“side”常用于表示“比賽或競爭中的一方”；“a lower division”直譯為“低一級的聯(lián)賽”，即乙級聯(lián)賽。）記錄表明，幾周之后，莫吉接到了該俱樂部主席打來的感謝電話。
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Football fans have long s________④ that Juventus, which for years was universally associated with the Fiat automotive group and a symbol of Italian industrial pride, gets unduly[6] favourable treatment. （4）But investigations in Naples and three other cities point to corrupt practices far beyond Turin. Several teams are involved. One of them is AC Milan.
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多年來，尤文圖斯始終與菲亞特汽車集團保持著千絲萬縷的聯(lián)系，是意大利工業(yè)界引以為豪的代表。球迷們一直懷疑尤文圖斯受到了不正當(dāng)偏袒。不過，那不勒斯以及其它三個城市的調(diào)查人員指出，舞弊行為絕非只尤文圖斯一家俱樂部才有，（譯者按：“corrupt practice”是一名詞短語，表示“舞弊，行賄”。）好幾支球隊都涉嫌舞弊，其中之一就是AC米蘭。
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[QUIZ]
1. 根據(jù)首字母以及括號內(nèi)的詞性提示和英文釋義填入單詞（注意復(fù)數(shù)、時態(tài)形式變化等）：
①q________（vi. to leave a job, school etc, especially without finishing it completely）
②r________（vt. to guess a number or amount, without calculating it exactly）
③p________（vt. to make someone suffer because they have done something wrong）
④s________（vi. to think that something is probably true, especially something bad）
2. 將劃線部分英文翻譯成中文：
[NOTES](LONGMAN)
1. rig vt. to dishonestly arrange the result of an election or competition before it happens [= fix]:操縱（競選或比賽結(jié)果）
2. intercept vt. to stop something or someone that is going from one place to another before they get there:中途阻止；截留
3. amenable adj.
1)willing to accept what someone says or does without arguing:聽話的，順從的（與to連用）
2)suitable for a particular type of treatment（與for/to連用）適合……的
4. reprisal n. something violent or harmful which you do to punish someone for something bad they have done to you [≈ revenge, retaliation]:報復(fù)，報仇（against）
do sth. in reprisal (for something)為了報復(fù)……而……
5. tamper with sth. to touch something or make changes to it without permission, especially in order to deliberately damage it 擅自接觸某物或進(jìn)行改動（尤指為了故意破壞）；篡改
6. unduly adj. more than is normal or reasonable 不正常地，不合理地；過分地
如：unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc 過分擔(dān)心/關(guān)心/焦慮
[KEY TO QUIZ]
1. ①quit 退出，離職；②reckons 估算；③punishing 懲罰（用分詞，與前面的rewarding對應(yīng)）；④suspected 懷疑
2.（見譯文，僅供參考，歡迎指正）
May 18th 2006 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
SILVIO BERLUSCONI says it was a rigged[1] contest that his side won. Not Italy's election: its football championship. His team, AC Milan, finished second in both the past two seasons to Juventus. （1）But the Turin team is at the centre of a match-fixing scandal that may be the biggest even this country has seen. On May 16th, less than a month before the start of the soccer World Cup in Germany, Italy's top sporting body, the Olympic committee, put the national football federation under emergency rule. The federation's president had q_______① after claims that he ignored evidence of misconduct by officials, referees and players. The committee chose a 75-year-old former stockmarket regulator, Guido Rossi, in his place.
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西爾維奧•貝魯斯科尼說，他那一方贏的是一場被操縱的比賽。他這說的不是意大利選舉，而是足球賽。他的AC米蘭隊在過去兩個賽季都排在尤文圖斯之后居于次席。但是尤文圖斯（注：尤文圖斯俱樂部位于意大利西北部城市都靈）目前正陷入意大利有史以來的一件操縱比賽的丑聞漩渦之中。（譯者按：“fix”在這里是“操控，操縱”的意思，“this country has seen”本義是“該國所見證的”，意譯為“有史以來”。）5月16日，亦即距德國世界杯開幕不到一個月的時候，意大利體育組織——奧委會對國家足協(xié)實行了緊急管制。由于被指稱對比賽官員、裁判以及球員的不軌表現(xiàn)坐視不理，足協(xié)主席已經(jīng)離任，奧委會挑選了75歲的前股市調(diào)節(jié)員吉多•羅西接替他的位置。
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尤文圖斯總經(jīng)理盧奇亞諾•莫吉也于5月14日辭職。根據(jù)竊聽得到的一段電話交談記錄，莫吉經(jīng)常為自己的球隊安排合適的裁判人選，對于那些袒護球隊的人給予獎賞，否則就加以懲罰。檢察官的記錄表明，他吹噓自己曾將比賽官員關(guān)在更衣室里以示報復(fù)，還慫恿一名電視記者篡改一個慢動作回放鏡頭，以隱瞞一項有利于尤文圖斯的錯誤決議。莫吉操縱比賽名聞遐邇，甚至連貝魯斯科尼政府的內(nèi)政部長也曾打電話給他，請他給他家鄉(xiāng)一支乙級俱樂部提供幫助。（譯者按：“l(fā)ocal”除了有“地方的，本地的”的意思之外，還可指“家鄉(xiāng)的，鄉(xiāng)土的”；“side”常用于表示“比賽或競爭中的一方”；“a lower division”直譯為“低一級的聯(lián)賽”，即乙級聯(lián)賽。）記錄表明，幾周之后，莫吉接到了該俱樂部主席打來的感謝電話。
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Football fans have long s________④ that Juventus, which for years was universally associated with the Fiat automotive group and a symbol of Italian industrial pride, gets unduly[6] favourable treatment. （4）But investigations in Naples and three other cities point to corrupt practices far beyond Turin. Several teams are involved. One of them is AC Milan.
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多年來，尤文圖斯始終與菲亞特汽車集團保持著千絲萬縷的聯(lián)系，是意大利工業(yè)界引以為豪的代表。球迷們一直懷疑尤文圖斯受到了不正當(dāng)偏袒。不過，那不勒斯以及其它三個城市的調(diào)查人員指出，舞弊行為絕非只尤文圖斯一家俱樂部才有，（譯者按：“corrupt practice”是一名詞短語，表示“舞弊，行賄”。）好幾支球隊都涉嫌舞弊，其中之一就是AC米蘭。
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[QUIZ]
1. 根據(jù)首字母以及括號內(nèi)的詞性提示和英文釋義填入單詞（注意復(fù)數(shù)、時態(tài)形式變化等）：
①q________（vi. to leave a job, school etc, especially without finishing it completely）
②r________（vt. to guess a number or amount, without calculating it exactly）
③p________（vt. to make someone suffer because they have done something wrong）
④s________（vi. to think that something is probably true, especially something bad）
2. 將劃線部分英文翻譯成中文：
[NOTES](LONGMAN)
1. rig vt. to dishonestly arrange the result of an election or competition before it happens [= fix]:操縱（競選或比賽結(jié)果）
2. intercept vt. to stop something or someone that is going from one place to another before they get there:中途阻止；截留
3. amenable adj.
1)willing to accept what someone says or does without arguing:聽話的，順從的（與to連用）
2)suitable for a particular type of treatment（與for/to連用）適合……的
4. reprisal n. something violent or harmful which you do to punish someone for something bad they have done to you [≈ revenge, retaliation]:報復(fù)，報仇（against）
do sth. in reprisal (for something)為了報復(fù)……而……
5. tamper with sth. to touch something or make changes to it without permission, especially in order to deliberately damage it 擅自接觸某物或進(jìn)行改動（尤指為了故意破壞）；篡改
6. unduly adj. more than is normal or reasonable 不正常地，不合理地；過分地
如：unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc 過分擔(dān)心/關(guān)心/焦慮
[KEY TO QUIZ]
1. ①quit 退出，離職；②reckons 估算；③punishing 懲罰（用分詞，與前面的rewarding對應(yīng)）；④suspected 懷疑
2.（見譯文，僅供參考，歡迎指正）