A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
足球
Soccer
Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.
足球不是很社交。另外,如果你不喜欢另一个团队的某个人,你可以做点什么。
I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.
我爱足球。我就看这么多。如果可能的话,我会看一整天。但我太老了,不能再玩了。
In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.
在欧洲就不一样了——你吃足球,呼吸足球,喝足球。一切都与足球有关。
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
自由主义的足球妈妈在培养线性思维能力的同时,也很有可能从邮件中收到炭疽热。
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
我每年都参加体育运动:篮球、足球、垒球,从我六、七岁开始,我每年都参加田径比赛。
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
我在很小的时候就体验到了最高水平的足球;我决定我要尽可能长时间地参与其中。
Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.
足球不是一种你可以限制球员的运动,尤其是有创造力的球员和已经证明自己在那个水平的球员。
I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.
我认为足球现在比以往任何时候都更受尊重。你可以从正在玩耍的孩子和前来观看比赛的观众的数量中看出这一点。
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
现在,现代经济有一个非常有效的机制来决定工资是否真的过高:这就是所谓的自由市场。毕竟,大多数人的工资都是这样确定的,包括大联盟棒球运动员和欧洲足球运动员。
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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
是的,有一小群足球爱好者,但我不是其中之一。
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
我管理一支球队,参加沙滩足球。我是教练。球员,教练。
I love soccer; I want to be on the field.
我爱足球;我想上场比赛。
Soccer is a magical game.
足球是一项神奇的运动。
Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.
功夫和足球是我小时候最感兴趣的两件事。
I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.
我认为足球在社区中所做的很多事情都超越了足球领域。