经济学人 迭戈·马拉多纳(3)

What really fuelled him, though, was anger, bronca, fury tinged¹ with resentment². Life in Villa³ Fiorito, in a struggling family of ten in a tiny corrugated-iron house on a bone-crusher's wage, was a giant kick up the backside. He had to get out or go under, and defeat was unbearable⁴. Because he was so small and young in his first teams, he was sometimes left on the bench, and couldn't stand it. He would weep for hours, knowing he was as good as anyone, better, and could prove it.

不过，真正使他火上浇油的是愤怒，带着怨恨的愤怒。生活在维拉-费奥里托，一个十口之家，在一个小瓦楞铁屋里，靠一个碎骨工人的工资生活，生活成为了他的动力。他要么走出去，要么被击溃，失败是无法忍受的，因为他在之前的球队中很渺小，很年轻，他有时要坐冷板凳，无法忍受。他会哭上几个小时，因为他知道自己和其他人一样优秀，更能证明这一点。

When Cesar Menotti left him out of Argentina's World Cup squad⁵ in 1978, when he was so up for it, he got his own back by leading the youth team to victory in the World Youth Cup the next year. He did not forgive Menotti. Most of the coaches and managers he dealt with, he thought, betrayed him somehow. They held him back, or forced him to train when he preferred to sleep. One even tried to teach him a sliding tackle, down to the ground. He would never go down to the ground, unless pushed. Sometimes his longing⁶ for revenge went as far as war.

当塞萨尔·梅诺蒂在1978年把他排除在阿根廷世界杯的阵容之外时，当时他已经准备好了，他带领青年队在第二年的世界青年杯上取得了胜利。他没有原谅梅诺蒂。他认为，与他打交道的大多数教练和经理不知何故背叛了他。他们阻止了他，或者强迫他在他喜欢睡觉的时候训练。有人甚至试着教他如何铲球，除非被推倒，否则他永远不会倒地。有时他对复仇的渴望甚至达到了战争的程度。

When Barcelona lost the final of the Copa del Rey, Spain's fa Cup, in 1984 to Athletic⁷ Bilbao, and a Bilbao player gave him two fingers, he started a mighty⁸ brawl⁹ on the pitch in front of the king himself. In 1986, marching out to take on England, his mind was full of Argentina's defeat in the Malvinas not so long before, and the Argentine boys who had died there, killed like little birds. It was not only his country he wanted to defend but, often, himself. The media infuriated him, to the point where he once opened fire with an air rifle on a posse of reporters who came to his house.

1984年，巴塞罗那在西班牙足总杯的决赛中输给了毕尔巴鄂竞技队，一名毕尔巴鄂球员给了他两个手指，他在球场上当着国王的面大吵大闹。1986年，他出征迎战英格兰，脑海中充满了不久前阿根廷在马尔维纳斯的失利，那些死在那里的阿根廷男孩，像小鸟一样死去。他不仅要保卫自己的国家，而且常常要保卫自己。媒体激怒了他，以至于他有一次用气枪向来他家的一队记者开枪。

They hammered him over women and, especially, drugs. Those had led to a 15-month ban at Napoli in 1991 and in 1994 to his ejection from the World Cup in the United States mid-tournament, but he argued that he was largely innocent. At Barca he had got into the habit of testing himself, and found himself quite clean.

他们狠狠地揍了他一顿，尤其是毒品。这导致1991年在那不勒斯被禁赛15个月，1994年在美国世界杯中期赛上被逐出赛场，但他辩称自己基本上是无辜的。在巴萨，他养成了自我测试的习惯，发现自己很干净。

1 tinged   

v.（使）发丁丁声( ting的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• memories tinged with sadness 略带悲伤的往事
• white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣

2 resentment   

n.怨愤，忿恨

参考例句：

• All her feelings of resentment just came pouring out.她一股脑儿倾吐出所有的怨恨。
• She cherished a deep resentment under the rose towards her employer.她暗中对她的雇主怀恨在心。

3 villa   

n.别墅，城郊小屋

参考例句：

• We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays.我们在法国租了一幢别墅消夏。
• We are quartered in a beautiful villa.我们住在一栋漂亮的别墅里。

4 unbearable   

adj.不能容忍的；忍受不住的

参考例句：

• It is unbearable to be always on thorns.老是处于焦虑不安的情况中是受不了的。
• The more he thought of it the more unbearable it became.他越想越觉得无法忍受。

5 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

6 longing   

n.（for）渴望

参考例句：

• Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
• His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。

7 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

8 mighty   

adj.强有力的；巨大的

参考例句：

• A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
• The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。

9 brawl   

n.大声争吵，喧嚷；v.吵架，对骂

参考例句：

• They had nothing better to do than brawl in the street.他们除了在街上斗殴做不出什么好事。
• I don't want to see our two neighbours engaged in a brawl.我不希望我们两家吵架吵得不可开交。