精读丨纽约时报：卡塔尔世界杯如何改变了一切

纽约时报：卡塔尔世界杯如何改变了一切

课程导读

▸ 本届世界杯经历了哪些丑闻和争议？

▸ 普拉蒂尼的那顿午饭如何改变了卡塔尔和世界杯的命运？

▸ 申办成功对于卡塔尔和世界足球格局带来何种改变？

▸ 卡塔尔如何发家致富？这个国家为什么要办世界杯？

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The World Cup That Changed Everything

The decision to take the World Cup to Qatar has upturned a small nation, battered the reputation of global soccer's governing body and altered the fabric of the sport.

Michel Platini was expecting a private audience with the president of France when he arrived for lunch on a cold day in November 2010. Instead, as Platini, a legendary French player who in retirement had risen to become one of the most powerful men in soccer, stepped into a lavish salon inside the president's official residence, he noticed immediately that the man he had come to see, Nicolas Sarkozy, was absent.

Instead, Platini was directed toward a small group chatting across the room, and to a conversation that would alter the course of his career, stain his reputation, and forever change the sport to which he had dedicated his life.

来源：The New York Times

参考译文

改变一切的世界杯

将世界杯带到卡塔尔的决定改变了一个小国，损害了全球足球管理机构的声誉，同时也改变了足球这项运动的架构。

2010 年 11 月的一个寒冷日子里，米歇尔·普拉蒂尼来到法国总统府吃午饭，他本以为自己会与法国总统进行一场私人会面。作为法国传奇球员，普拉蒂尼退役后成为足球界最有权势的人之一。但在步入法国总统官邸的豪华客厅后，他立刻发现，自己前来见面的人——尼古拉·萨科齐——却不在。

相反，普拉蒂尼被带到了正在客厅对面交谈的一群人中，他与这些人的谈话将改变他职业生涯的发展、玷污他的声誉并永远改变了他为之奉献一生的运动。

重点词汇

upturn/ˈʌptɜːn/ v. 使翻转，翻起

○ turn (sth.) upwards or upside down

○ e.g. a sea of upturned faces 密密麻麻一大片仰起的脸

batter/ˈbætə(r)/ v. 接连猛打，连续猛击

○ to hit sb./sth. hard many times, especially in a way that causes serious damage

○ e.g. The waves battered against the ship. 海浪拍打着船。

○ e.g. She battered at the door with her fists. 她用拳头猛捶门。

fabric /ˈfæbrɪk/ n. 构造，结构

○ (formal) the basic structure of a society, an organization, etc. that enables it to function successfully

○ e.g. a trend which threatens the very fabric of society 一种威胁到社会结构的趋势

audience /ˈɔːdiəns/ n. 觐见，拜见

○ a formal meeting with an important person

○ e.g. an audience with the Pope 觐见教皇

lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/ adj. 奢侈的，盛大的

○ large in amount, or impressive, and usually costing a lot of money

○ e.g. They lived a very lavish lifestyle. 他们过着非常奢侈的生活。

○【SYN】extravagant, luxurious

stain /steɪn/ v. 玷污，败坏（名声等）

○ (formal) to damage the opinion that people have of sth.

○ e.g. The events had stained the city's reputation unfairly. 这些事件不公正地玷污了这座城市的声誉。

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