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Football fiasco一败涂地的足球

+ }# }6 I7 |4 H+ XMay 18th 2006 | WASHINGTON, DC
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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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西尔维奥•贝鲁斯科尼说，他那一方赢的是一场被操纵的比赛。他这说的不是意大利选举，而是足球赛。他的AC米兰队在过去两个赛季都排在尤文图斯之后居于次席。但是尤文图斯（注：尤文图斯俱乐部位于意大利西北部城市都灵）目前正陷入意大利有史以来最大的一件操纵比赛的丑闻漩涡之中。（译者按：“fix”在这里是“操控，操纵”的意思，“this country has seen”本义是“该国所见证的”，意译为“有史以来”。）5月16日，亦即距德国世界杯开幕不到一个月的时候，意大利最高体育组织——奥委会对国家足协实行了紧急管制。由于被指称对比赛官员、裁判以及球员的不轨表现坐视不理，足协主席已经离任，奥委会挑选了75岁的前股市调节员吉多•罗西接替他的位置。
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( \) m0 H4 }& W$ v4 J尤文图斯总经理卢奇亚诺•莫吉也于5月14日辞职。根据窃听得到的一段电话交谈记录，莫吉经常为自己的球队安排合适的裁判人选，对于那些袒护球队的人给予奖赏，否则就加以惩罚。检察官的记录表明，他吹嘘自己曾将比赛官员关在更衣室里以示报复，还怂恿一名电视记者篡改一个慢动作回放镜头，以隐瞒一项有利于尤文图斯的错误决议。莫吉操纵比赛名闻遐迩，甚至连贝鲁斯科尼政府的内政部长也曾打电话给他，请他给他家乡一支乙级俱乐部提供帮助。（译者按：“local”除了有“地方的，本地的”的意思之外，还可指“家乡的，乡土的”；“side”常用于表示“比赛或竞争中的一方”；“a lower division”直译为“低一级的联赛”，即乙级联赛。）记录表明，几周之后，莫吉接到了该俱乐部主席打来的感谢电话。

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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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多年来，尤文图斯始终与菲亚特汽车集团保持着千丝万缕的联系，是意大利工业界引以为豪的代表。球迷们一直怀疑尤文图斯受到了不正当偏袒。不过，那不勒斯以及其它三个城市的调查人员指出，舞弊行为绝非只尤文图斯一家俱乐部才有，（译者按：“corrupt practice”是一名词短语，表示“舞弊，行贿”。）好几支球队都涉嫌舞弊，其中之一就是AC米兰。
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0 Z8 p+ o# o- X3 ^1. 根据首字母以及括号内的词性提示和英文释义填入单词（注意复数、时态形式变化等）：
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8 M: j/ q6 G& ]①q________（vi. to leave a job, school etc, especially without finishing it completely）
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7 _4 O1 r- d/ S- @& C0 Z' ]6 p②r________（vt. to guess a number or amount, without calculating it exactly）
③p________（vt. to make someone suffer because they have done something wrong）

/ r$ t' V3 k: u) |; g3 x3 g/ n  |* e, u④s________（vi. to think that something is probably true, especially something bad）
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3 W2 `+ L" ]/ {9 ~% p, {% J3 H/ \2. 将划线部分英文翻译成中文：

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) L, Q8 N4 @+ X, U) d3 {1. rig vt. to dishonestly arrange the result of an election or competition before it happens [= fix]:操纵（竞选或比赛结果）

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

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3. amenable adj.
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; \9 d, X) j. W0 s1)willing to accept what someone says or does without arguing:听话的，顺从的（与to连用）
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2)suitable for a particular type of treatment（与for/to连用）适合……的
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/ O, C/ D, h; R! `4. reprisal n. something violent or harmful which you do to punish someone for something bad they have done to you [≈ revenge, retaliation]:报复，报仇（against）

do sth. in reprisal (for something)为了报复……而……

# }& h: z2 Q5 O/ K+ Z$ f& u# }5. tamper with sth. to touch something or make changes to it without permission, especially in order to deliberately damage it 擅自接触某物或进行改动（尤指为了故意破坏）；篡改
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6. unduly adj. more than is normal or reasonable 不正常地，不合理地；过分地
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如：unduly worried/concerned/anxious etc 过分担心/关心/焦虑

[KEY TO QUIZ]
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# N. u$ n7 N& A" ]' O# P' I* x1. ①quit 退出，离职；②reckons 估算；③punishing 惩罚（用分词，与前面的rewarding对应）；④suspected 怀疑
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2.（见译文，仅供参考，欢迎指正）