CATTI三级笔译实务练习：赢得尊严.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 CATTI三级笔译实务练习：赢得尊严  翻译资格考试：CATTI三级笔译实务练习：赢得尊严  翻译资格精选课程推荐  英译汉  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, its 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 nations World Cup stadiums: Great Republic of Korea.3 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 Koreas 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 Asias most wired nation, and touted the countrys capital as being as hip and caffeinated as any modern metropolis. 7 Said bleached-haired midfielder Kim Nam II on the eve of Koreas 2002 debut: We want to show we are a team - and a nation - that can compete with the best, and win.8  The squad began with a historic triumph over sluggish Poland, then found itself face to face with the U.S. Koreas relations with America have long seesawed between peace and peril.9 Although America fought on the side of the South during Koreas 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