I have a lot of confidence because otherwise, I wouldn't come so big country and I think it has a very big future here and maybe I like to be a part of it, and this confidence I have to bring the team in a higher level, and what Mr. Hiddink concerns, he did a fantastic job, and certainly we are looking, everybody was looking in Western Europe, especially Holland, where he was working. What a fine job he was doing and I really can hope I do the same. I have surely the confidence to do it.
阿里·汉就任国家队主教练新闻发布会
各位早上好！对我来说现在还是晚上，所以请原谅。
我从一开始加深了对中国足球的了解便发现我们有着几个目标：首先是进军2004年的亚洲杯，紧跟着是使球队做好准备，争取获得2006年世界杯的决赛权。所以，我对中国足球有信心，我相信我的眼光。我们能在亚洲杯取得佳绩，也能获得进入2006年德国世界杯的资格。对此我信心十足。我希望大家也是如此，这样我们便会成功。
关于执教国家队，是的，我说过我曾当了17年的国际球员、国家队球员以及好几年的俱乐部教练，这期间我与许多国家队教练共过事。所以很久以来我就知道当国家队教练与当俱乐部教练不一样。但你的抉择更多了，因为你有更多的球员可供挑选。对俱乐部教练来说，时常只有20名、22名，偶尔18名球员可供选择，而现在我想我可以在全国挑选。由你来选择球员并与他们共事，我相信对于做好工作我是信心百倍。
我非常有信心，否则我也不会到这么大的国家来执教。中国足球有远大前程，我很乐意参与进来。我有信心把球队推上一个更高的档次，这也是希丁克先生所关心的，他就干得很出色，我们看到了，在西欧尤其是荷兰，所有的人也都看到了，他的工作有多么出色！我衷心希望自己也能同样出色，对此我当然有信心。
注释:
1) qualify for 使合格，有……的资格
2) confidence n. 信心
3) coach n. 教练
★★《2003年05月号-第40期-Disc02-12》★★
Uriel Yak 尤里专线 (2)
Uriel: Crazy English-Land, welcome to Uriel Yak. This is Uriel, and with me in the studio, I have Alex....
Alex: Hi Uriel.
Uriel: Alex, a foreigner, a British person, who's living in China. Welcome, Alex!
A: Uh, hi Uriel!
U: Hi!
A: Thanks for having me on your show.
U: Ah, it's a pleasure. I understand that you like cellphones, however.
A: Ummm, yes.... And I understand that you don't.
U: Well, I am one of the last people in China not to have a cellphone.... And that does...
A: I think....
U: ... give a clue to my attitude about them....
A: In China, isn't a cellphone an actual status symbol?
U: Is it a status symbol?
A: Along with a car, yes.
U: How can.... I mean, that's like saying that having two arms and eyes is a status symbol. I mean, everybody seems to have a cellphone here. You were saying that you used to make thousands of cellphones every day....
A: Yes, I used to have links with the mobile phone industry.
U: Yeah....
A: Ummm.... But now they've been cut, I do still tend to look at mobile phones and I used to spend maybe two thousand yuan a day on mobile phones in my industry. And now I get worried when I spend over ten yuan.
U: What do you mean, you used to spend two thousand a day?
A: Ummm, I used to do testing for around the world... so it would put me on a plane... I'd go to somewhere like South Africa... I would phone up Finland and ask them, "Does this work?"
U: Making all those long distance phone calls, you were... you were using two thousand yuan a day of air time, is that right?
A: Easily.
U: Ok, ah.
A: Yeah, they loved me at the people who took the money, I can say.
U: You were actually travelling to a lot of places on behalf of these testing agencies?
A: Uh yeah, travelling all around the world... I was based in Paris, and before that I was based in England, going around just testing bits here and there. Suddenly a mobile phone that was new would not work in the middle of Russia. So, they get to send poor me out to the middle of Russia, in the middle of the snow, to make a phone call.
U: Well, you were talking about your first arrival in China.
A: Oh, my first arrival in China! That was an experience. I think that first few hours in China is what China is for me. I basically came from Hong Kong straight in to the East train station. And I arrive into the station, I've got a huge back.... This is like....
U: Guangzhou station.
A: Guangzhou East Train Station.
U: Yup.
A: ... a huge backpack on, two huge suitcases.... I'm pretty big guy and carry a lot, but I been carrying this all day and it was a boiling hot day.... The sun was shining, the temperatures were soaring, and I was meant to be meeting this Chinese person in the train station.
U: Who was it? Who had you connected with before you arrived?
A: Ummm.... Somebody who was gonna offer me a job. I'd organized and applied for and received, uh, a job when I arrived....
U: A teaching job?
A: A teaching job, yes.
U: Yeah, yeah....
A: And when I arrived at the train station... like... there was nobody....
U: Nobody there. You're on your own, and your Chinese language skills are....
A: Zip ... absolutely zip.
U: Nil.
A: Nothing. Nada. And I'm, like, "OK, what do I do? What do I do?"
U: Panic.
A: Panic sets in. I run around the station. I'm running out of the station, I'm running into the station, and with this much luggage, you can see, in this heat, I'm starting to really get tired.
U: Surely a helpful policeman could save you?
A: Uh, that was my first option, yes. I ran to the policeman, I say: "Phone." He looks at me. I do a hand signal phone. He goes, "Ahhh...." You know, the usual phone hand gesture....
U: Yeah.
A: And he points behind me and goes: "Neuhhh neuhhh neuhhh neuhhh neuhhh." Something I can't understand. And I go.... I look behind. He turns around and he runs out of the exit, try not to speak to me.
U: Let me ask, with all this cellphone background, why didntcha have a cellphone just when you needed it most.... This is when you needed a cellphone.
A: I did have a cellphone, but unfortunately I didn't have a Chinese SIM which is one of those little cards that you put into a cellphone.
U: Ahhh.... OK, I see.
A: So I was stuck. In the end I just sat down on my suitcases in the corner feeling very sorry for myself, thinking, maybe I'm in the wrong city, maybe I'm in the wrong country.
U: What did you do for fun besides, in your free time, after work?
A: Talking to people, and getting day to day life stuff, was pretty fun for me. Imagine walking into a restaurant, nobody understands you, you don't even know what the menu is, you look at something.... You can't identify it. Things crawl around. In England when you say, "I want a burger," it comes out cooked. In China when you say, "I want something to eat," they kill it in front of you, take out, point to the part you want, cook it, and then hand it to you. It was a new experience.
U: Alex, do you have any other final words for our listeners?
A: I have final words for listeners? Ummm ... yes. When you're shopping, could you refrain from hitting me... anybody... please?
U: Alright... please everybody, don't hit Alex when he's shopping.
A: And please, actually, stop looking at my shopping stuff.
U: Listeners, thank you for listening to Uriel Yak. So long.
A: Bye bye, Uriel.
U: Alex, thanks for joining us!
A: Thanks for having me!
★★《2003年05月号-第40期-Disc02-13》★★
Ordinary Day
Just a day, just an ordinary day
Just trying to get by
Just a boy
Just an ordinary boy
But he was looking to the sky
And as he asked if I would come along
I started to realize--
That everyday you find
Just what he's looking for
Like a shooting star he shines
He said take my hand
Live while you can
Don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand
And as he spoke, he spoke ordinary words
Although they did not feel
For I felt what I had not felt before
You'd swear those words could heal
And I as looked up into those eyes
His vision borrows mine
And to know he's no stranger
For I feel I've held him for all of time
And he said take my hand
Live while you can
Don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand
Right in the palm of your hand
Please come with me
See what I see
Touch the stars for a time will not flee
Time will not flee
Can you see
Just a dream, just an ordinary dream
As I wake in bed
And the boy, that ordinary boy
Or was it all in my head
Did he asked if I would come along
It all seemed so real
But as I looked to the door
I saw that boy standing there with a deal
And he said take my hand
Live while you can
Don't you see your dreams are right in the palm of your hand
Right in the palm of your hand
Right in the palm of your hand
Just a day, just an ordinary day
Just trying to get by
Just a boy
Just an ordinary boy
But he was looking to the sky
平凡的一天
那一天，不过是平常的一天
当时我只是想过平静的生活
而他是个男孩
不过是个平常的男孩
可他正仰视着天空
问我是否愿意跟随他
我开始意识到
每天你发现
他正寻找的东西
就像闪烁的流星
他说牵我的手
努力活着
难道你没发现梦想就在你的掌心里
他说话时，吐出的也是平常的词语
尽管他们毫不觉察
我却有前所未有的感觉
你用誓言治愈创伤
当我注视那双眼睛
里面的内容和我的如出一辙
知道他并不陌生
因为我感觉我一直拥有他
他说牵我的手
努力活着
难道你没发现梦想就在你的掌心里
就在你的掌心里
请跟我来
分享我看到的一切
手触星辰让时间停留
让时间停留
你明白吗
只是一个梦，一个平常的梦
当我醒卧在床的时候
那个男孩，那个平凡的男孩
那是我脑海中的一切
他叫我和他一起了吗
一切似乎很真实
但是当我看着门口
我看见男孩站在那里
他说牵我的手
努力活着
难道你没发现梦想就在你的掌心里
就在你的掌心里
就在你的掌心里
那一天，不过是平常的一天
当时我只是想过平静的生活
而他只是个男孩
不过是个平常的男孩
可他正仰视着天空
★★《2003年07月号-第41期-Disc01-02》★★
On Beauty
Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the 1)weaver of your speech?
The 2)aggrieved and the 3)injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of her own 4)glory she walks among us."
And the 5)passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of 6)might and 7)dread. Like the 8)tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."
The tired and the 9)weary say, "Beauty is of soft 10)whisperings. She speaks in our spirit. Her voice 11)yields to our silences like a 12)faint light that 13)quivers 14)in fear of the shadow."
But the 15)restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains, and with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the 16)roaring of lions."
At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."
And at 17)noon-time the 18)toilers and the 19)wayfarers say, "We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset."
In winter say the 20)snow-bound, "She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills."
And in the summer heat the 21)reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."
All these things have you said of beauty, yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, and beauty is not a need but an 22)ecstasy. It is not a mouth 23)thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a heart 24)enflamed and a soul 25)enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the 26)sap within the 27)furrowed 28)bark, nor a wing attached to a 29)claw, but rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.
Beauty is life when life 30)unveils her holy face.
美
如果美不以自身为途径，为向导，你们到哪里，又如何能找到她呢？如果她不是你们言语的编织者，你们又如何能谈论她呢？
伤心痛苦者说：“美是善良而温柔的。她像一位因自己的荣耀而半含羞涩的年轻母亲，走在我们的身边。”
热情奔放者说：“不，美是强烈而令人惊畏的。她如暴风雨般震动我们脚下的大地，摇撼我们头上的天空。”
疲惫怠倦者说：“美是温柔的低语，她在我们的心中诉说。她的声音波动在我们的沉默中，犹如一道微弱的光在对阴影的恐惧中颤抖。”
但活泼好动者说：“我们曾听到她在山谷中大声呼叫，随其呐喊而来的是足蹄踏地、翅膀拍击和雄狮怒吼的声音。”
夜晚，城市的守夜人说：“美将与晨光一同从东方升起。”
正午，辛勤劳作者和长途跋涉者说：“我们曾看到她透过黄昏之窗眺望大地。”
严冬，困在风雪中的人说：“她将与春同至，雀跃于山峦之间。”
酷暑，收割庄稼的人说：“我们曾看到她与秋叶共舞，雪花点缀于她的发梢。”
你们谈到关于美的所有这些，实际并非关于她本身，而是关于你们未被满足的需求，但美并不是一种需求，而是心醉神迷的欣喜。她不是焦渴的唇，也不是伸出的空空的手，而是一颗燃烧的心，一个充满喜悦的灵魂。她不是你们想看到的形象，也不是你们想听到的歌声，而是你们闭上眼睛看到的形象，堵住耳朵听到的歌声。她不是伤残树皮下的树液，也不是悬在利爪下的翅膀。而是一座鲜花永远盛开的花园，一群永远在天空飞翔的天使。
当生命摘去遮盖她圣洁面容的面纱时，美就是生命。
注释:
1) weaver n. 编织者，织工
2) aggrieved a. 苦恼的，悲伤的 the aggrieved指苦恼的人，悲伤的人
3) injured a. 受伤的，受损害的 the injured指受伤的人，受损害的人
4) glory n. 荣誉，光荣
5) passionate a. 热情的 the passionate指充满热情的人
6) might n. 力量，威力
7) dread n. 惧怕，担心
8) tempest n. 暴风雨
9) weary a. 疲倦的 the weary指疲倦的人
10) whispering n. 耳语
11) yield to 屈服于，屈从于
12) faint a. 微弱的，模糊的
13) quiver v. 颤抖
14) in fear of 对……惧怕，担忧
15) restless a. 不能安静的 the restless指好动的人
16) roaring n. 咆哮，呼喊
17) noon-time n. 正午，白昼
18) toiler n. 辛劳者
19) wayfarer n. 旅人，徒步旅行者
20) snow-bound a. 被大雪困阻的 the snowbound指被大雪困阻的人
21) reaper n. 收割者
22) ecstasy n. 入迷
23) thirsting a. 口渴的
24) enflame v. 燃烧
25) enchant v. 施魔法，使迷惑
26) sap n. 树液
27) furrowed a. 有犁沟的，有皱纹的
28) bark n. 树皮
29) claw n. 爪
30) unveil v. 揭开，除去面纱
★★《2003年07月号-第41期-Disc01-03》★★
Words, Wide Night
Written by Carol Ann Duffy
Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
1)The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
This is pleasurable. Or shall I 2)cross that out and say
it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing
an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear.
La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine
the dark hills I would have to cross
to reach you. For I am in love with you and this
is what it is like or what it is like in words.
Whispering Steppe
Love is dear, love is rare
Love is never where your eyes would stare
Unexpectedly, even blindingly
Love will show its face to you, no lie
Fears 3)subside, clearly why
Time has come for me to stand aside
4)Unencumberedly, though 5)reluctantly
Upon the 6)whispering 7)steppes I lie with pride
It was the 8)cradle of my hopes now lies my resting grave
The warmth of life has left me half-embraced
For those who 9)rendered fears and pain
I will surely pay with a smile you can't escape
Free at last, from the past
Time has come for me to greet the vast
Unencumberedly, though reluctantly
Upon the whispering steppes I lie
无言的暗夜
无边暗夜的某一处，某一边
我们之间遥遥相隔，我想起了你。
