http://www.chelseafc.com/page/Columnists/0,,10268~1025859,00.html http://bbs.qieerxi.com/viewthread.php?tid=66753&extra=page%3D1 Giles Smith: Numbers Don't Add Up 基尔斯。史密斯：数字没有增加（场外乱谈） Wed, 16th May 2007 新闻翻译：切尔西中文网 / 末日重现 Just three days to go and our columnist is still struggling to make some sense out of Wembley seating capacity sums. 离比赛日只有三天了，我们的专栏作家还是搞不清楚温布利球场上座数问题。 The first question anyone travelling to Wembley on Saturday needs to ask themselves is, 'Do I remember where Wembley is?' It's been a long while, after all. 对於周六要去温布利看球的球迷来说，首先他们得自问一下："我还记得温布利大球场在 哪儿吗？"毕竟，那是好久以前的事了。 Always keen to provide a public information service, this column would like to point out, then, that Wembley is that out of town shopping centre to the north of London. IKEA, Currys, Tesco - you know the one. If you get to Watford, you've gone too far. 本专栏很乐意提供给读者一些公众设施的资讯：温布利是我们北伦敦的购物中心，那里有 ＩＫＥＡ，Ｃｕｒｒｙｓ，Ｔｅｓｃｏ（大型超市）--这些你都知道，。如果你跑到沃特 福德去购物，那你就走过头了。 Younger readers should check a map if they're still not sure. And why would they be? In the time it has taken to construct the new Wembley, and what with the problems encountered in doing so, a generation has come of age for whom the place might as well be Atlantis - somewhere talked about by their elders in glowing, mythical terms, but nowhere you were ever likely to end up. 年轻一点的读者如果还是不清楚，应该查查地图。不过为什麽他们会不知道温布利在哪？ 新温布利长期施工，同时又面临这样那样的阻碍。施工伴随着一代人的成长，对於他们来 说温布利大球场就像亚特兰蒂斯一般神秘--他们的长辈们总在不时地讨论着这个神秘事物 ，而他们却无从知晓。 In this respect, the arch across the top of the new stadium comes in handy. You can see it from miles off, in all sorts of places, and point it out to people who, through no fault of their own, don't really believe in Wembley at all. 因为这一点，横架在新球场上空的拱梁这时就派上用场。即使在几哩外，即使是在任何地 方，你都能看到它，引领那些并不相信新温布利存在的家伙们。 Indeed, based on my own first-hand observations, I can confidently report that proof of Wembley's existence is visible from a position well south of Stamford Bridge on the Trinity Road red route at Wandsworth and also, even more startlingly, at the point where the A3 narrows into two lanes just before the Chessington turn off. 确实，根据我第一手的侦察资料，我能很确定的说，我们可以看见温布利球场存在的证据 ，你可以从Wandsworth的斯坦福桥南面崔尼迪路禁止泊车区看到它，更精确的还有，你可 以从Chessington 刚刚离开视野，而A3高速刚刚并为二车道的那个点上看到它。 That doesn't mean you would necessarily want to set out for it on foot from either of those places, however, so we continue to recommend overground train services from Marylebone and the Metropolitan line from Baker Street. 这并不意味着你可以从这两个地方的其中一一个地方出发步行去温布利，我们推荐你乘坐 从Marylebone出发的轻轨去，或乘坐从Baker 街出发的新干线去那里 。 Another crucial question to ask yourself before leaving the house this weekend: 'Do I have a ticket?' Happily, a few more of us will be answering 'yes' after this morning's surprise fire sale of FA cast-offs. Nevertheless, the measly size of the club's allocation for this match, and the disappointment thereby inflicted on season ticket holders and ever-present members is one of the season's most baffling and dismaying turn-ups. 周末要出门前先问自己一个关键问题："我有票吗？"很高兴的是，我们中的一些人将在今 天上午意外的由於英足总的放弃而拍卖之後回答"是的"。话虽如此，俱乐部所分到的可怜 的总票数，包括那些有季票的人，以及能长期现场看球的人的失望之情，成为了这赛季最 让大家不爽和沮丧的事了。 I hate to rake up an old argument, but the FA spends seven years and 400 gazillion pounds building the biggest stadium in the country - the second largest in Europe, in fact - and the competing teams in the FA Cup final end up getting a smaller share of the tickets than they would have had if the bulldozers had never gone in in the first place. 我不想旧事重提，但是足协花了7年的时间和400亿万英镑（夸张。。。）来建造这座全国 最大的体育场--事实上是欧洲第二大--可结果却是，要在决赛中竞技的两家俱乐部所分到 的门票数还不如没建新球场时来得多。 I don't know about you, but I'm struggling to equate this with progress. Also, if fewer partisan fans in an atmosphere of sleep-inducing sterility was the outcome the FA was looking to bring about, why not save the money and use the Emirates? 我不知道你是怎麽想的，至少我很难把这和"进步"划上等号。再说了，假如足协的目的是 想要在这块气氛本就让人昏昏欲睡的场地里减少（参赛队的）死忠球迷数量的话，那何必 花这麽多钱呢？用酋长球场就好了嘛。 And I do understand the argument about the FA Cup final being 'football's day out' - that it's not meant to be entirely about partisan fans; that it's meant to be a gathering for the whole community of football; and that hence it only makes sense that a precious pair of tickets should end up going to the treasurer of the Tiptree Bald Eagles playing in the Snug-U-Fit Loft Insulation Over-35s league, division five. 我的确理解关於足总杯决赛是"足球假日"的争论--这里的假日并不仅仅对死忠球迷有意义 ；足总杯决赛还应该是足球界的盛会。也就无怪乎几张珍贵的球票会流到第五级别的35岁 以上"舒适就行"联赛中Tiptree秃鹰队的财务那里去了。 I'm not entirely making this Bald Eagles thing up, by the way. A friend used to play in an accountants' league for a side which was, by his own admission, 'almost certainly the worst football team in the world.' Yet they were entitled to enter the ballot for FA Cup final tickets, and more often than not a pair would duly arrive. 顺便提一句，秃鹰的事也不全是我瞎编的。我的一个朋友就在一个"会计师"联盟踢球，他 自己也承认，这是支"几乎应该是世界上最烂的球队"。尽管如此他们还能有幸参加得到足 总杯决赛票的抽奖，而大多数情况下他们总能分到那麽几张票。 Being mainly Chelsea fans, the team applied in hope that it would turn out to be Chelsea's season. Except that this was back in the days when Chelsea routinely went out in round four to ShrewSuper Boyury, or similar. So frequently the team would end up with two Cup final tickets on their hands that nobody really wanted, and would frequently struggle to get rid of them. That, sadly, is the story of FA Cup final tickets down the ages. 这支球队多数都是切迷，所以他们希望他们抽中的决赛票会是切尔西夺冠之役。但是切尔 西过去都会习惯性的在第四轮被ShrewSuper Boyury或者差不多的球队淘汰。所以通常来 说，秃鹰队会有两张决赛的票子，而这两张票子是没人要的，所以他们会无可奈何的扔掉 票子。很不幸，这就是足总杯决赛票的历史故事。 Even so, one comprehends entirely the realities, commercial and emotional, of the FA's obligation to distribute the tickets between fans of the clubs, corporate diners and upstanding members of the football community representing Tiptree Bald Eagles. It's the proportions on this occasion that look bizarre. 尽管如此，无论从经济上还是从情感上来说，必须了解到了这样的事实，足协有义务把球 票分给俱乐部的球迷，给公司股东以及正直的足球界成员一如秃鹰队。但是现在看来他们 分配球票的比率简直太怪异了。 There were, after all, 90,000 seats to play with. If the competing clubs had been allocated 35,000 tickets each, the balance might have seemed more reasonable. As it is, the partisan fans on each side (25,000) are set to be outnumbered at a rate approaching two to one by the combined might of the representatives of Tiptree Bald Eagles and the prawn sandwich munchers (40,000). And, accordingly, if you add the partisan fans of both sides (50,000 in total out of 90,000), they will barely account for a majority on the day. 毕竟有90000个座位。如果分给每个俱乐部35000张票，那麽或许还凑合。现在是，两支球 队的一方球迷（25000）和那些以秃鹰队和吃着虾肉三明治，根本不关心结果的闲人（ 50000）相比，只占1/2。何况，在现在这种情况下，即使你把参赛双方球迷的数量加起来 ，也只能勉强把他们称作是"大多数"。。 You don't need to play for an accountants' football team to be able to do the maths here. And you don't need to be a member of an accountants' football team holding an unwanted pair of tickets to appreciate that it is fundamentally mad. 你不会因为在"会计师足球队"踢球了所以才会在这里做算术。你发现原来这一切都太荒唐 了也不是因为你是拥有两张废票的"会计师"队的成员。 ~~~~ 这篇很不好翻, 所以大家将就点, "末日重现"辛苦了... ~~~~ --

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