2019年CATTI三级笔译实务练习题：赢得尊严

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Winning Respect

By making it into the second round, Korea has grown up as

a nation.1

BY HANNAH BEECH

No

matter

what

mom

said,

it's

never

just

a

game.

2

Football

is

about

ego,

respect,

national

pride.

South

Korea,

for

one,

has

turned the sport into a quest for its very identity, its hopes

captured

in

the

cheer

that

rings

through

the

nation's

World

Cup

stadiums:

Republic

of

Korea.

A

country

often

consigned

to an after-thought in East Asia is out to prove that it, too,

matters.

4

Last

week,

it

did

so,

by

gliding

through

to

the

second

round

with

skill

and

flair.

That

singular

achievement,

though,

was not just about Korea's arrival as a football force but as

a self- confident adult nation to be taken seriously. 5

Sandwiched

between

economic

giant

Japan

and

rising

superpower China, Korea has always shouldered an inferiority

complex.

When

the

country

won

the

right

to

co-host

the

World

Cup,

it

saw

a

chance

to

showcase

itself

-

particularly

to

Japan,

its

neighbor,

and

the

U.

S.,

its

often-

contentious

ally.6

officials

plugged

Korea

as

Asia's

most

wired

nation,

and

touted

the

country's

capital

as

being

as

hip

and

caffeinated

as

any

modern

metropolis.

7

Said

bleached-haired

midfielder

Kim

Nam

II

on

the

eve of Korea's 2002 debut:

a nation - that can compete with the best, and win.

The

squad

began

with

a

historic

triumph

over

sluggish

Poland,

then found itself face to face with the U.S. Korea's relations

with

America

have

long

seesawed

between

peace

and

peril.9

Although

America

fought

on

the

side

of

the

South

during

Korea's

civil

war,

the

37,000

U.

S.

troops

still

stationed

in

the

country

have strained relations with their hosts. 10

Perhaps the most contentious issue in modern U. S. -Korea

relations

stems

from

a

little-known

pastime

called

short-track

speed

skating.

Earlier

this

year

at

Salt

Lake

City,

the

nation's

top hope Kim Dong Sung was disqualified for blocking a U. S.

skater.

In

a

move

that

most

Koreans

consider

fixed,

the

American,

Apolo

Anton

Ohno,

took

the

gold

instead.

11

He's

since

been

voted

the most unwelcome foreigner in a Korean poll. When Korean

midfielder

Ahn

Jung

Hwan

headed

the

ball

home

in

the

77th

minute

of the U. S. -Korea match to tie the score l-1 and keep the

country's

hopes

of

advancement

alive,

his

post- goal

showboating

gave

way

to

the

sweeping

arm

motions

of

a

speed

skater.

12

felt bad about the Ohno incident,

that.

The nation's next big test came in a do-or-die match on

Friday night, when South Korea faced a star-studded side from

Portugal.

The

Koreans

needed

at

least

a

draw

to

guarantee

advancing further in the Cup. Just hours before, Japan had

qualified for the second round by dispensing with the hapless

Tunisians.

The

possibility

that

Japan

would

advance

while

Korea

stayed

behind

horrified

the

nation.

Japan,

after

all,

has

perennially

looked

down

upon

its

smaller

neighbor,

and

brutally

occupied it from 1910 to then, Korea feels like it

has been stuck playing catch-up to the world's second- largest

economy.

It needn't have fretted. In the 69th minute of the match,

midfielder Park Ji Sung deftly executed one of the prettiest

strikes of the Cup. As fire-works flashed overhead, more than

400,000

citizens

poured

onto

the

streets

of

Seoul

to

celebrate.

Only one thing could possibly put a damper on the beer-soaked

crowds14:

the

U.

S.

too

had

advanced

to

the

second

round,

precisely

because

Park's

goal

had

relegated

the

Portuguese.

But

for

once,

the

Koreans

felt

no

twinge

of

insecurity.

are

both

powerful now,

celebrate

together.

For

the

Koreans,

victory

has

brought

maturity.

词汇

n to

交付，移交，被

天才，本领，实力

lder

中场队员

小队，球队

-track speed skating

短道速滑

the ball home

头球破门

the score

将比分扳平

-goal

进球后的，得分后的