Saturday, July 28, 2012

紐約時報: 英倫人怨奧運:噩夢何時完結?

體育競技對我向來沒多大吸引力, 回想起來, 這與小時候受"四肢發達,頭腦簡單", "君子無所爭"等觀念洗腦不無關聯. 愛靜的性格加上不屑,自然就沒了興趣. 不過, 這似乎無礙於健力審美意識成長......後來世界不同了, 隨著主流社會的競爭崇拜升溫, 運動員的形象獲 得大幅升抬, 再到後來, 體育跟廣告娛樂等產業接上了軌, 以至奧運會基本成了一項經濟和表演活動, 融入現今時代氣流. 說自己對體育盛事沒興趣的人就顯得很不入流了......不過,  這篇倫敦人對倫奧的反應的報導, 至少是平常人的真實和自發流露. 我想, 競技肯定也不是所有人的那杯茶.  
  
While the world’s athletes limber up at the Olympic Park, Londoners are practicing some of their own favorite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities.
Asked “What do you feel about the Olympics?” the other day, a random sampling of people here gave answers that included bitter laughter; the words “fiasco,” “disaster” and “police state”; and detailed explanations of how they usually get to work, how that is no longer possible and how very unhappy that makes them.

The Olympic Spirit, British Style: When Will This Nightmare End?

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