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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
More than 40 people, manager, referees1 and football association officials are all under investigation2 on allegations of fixing games, criminal association, fraud and false accounting3. A scandal so serious, the inquiry4 is in the hands of those who usually investigate the Maffia.
A dissenter5 of the scandal, Luciano Moggi, the former general manager of one of Italy's top football clubs, Juventus.
As of Monday I'll have resigned, he said, fighting back tears. From this day the world of soccer is no longer my world. Now, I will think about defending myself from the malice6 said about me.
Moggi and other officials deny any wrongdoing but investigators7 say Moggi influenced the appointment of referees. Journalist Paddy Agnew just published a book analyzing8 Italian society and football.
I think that money part is the least part of it. It's a network of influence, they will...you know, it's a network in which, you know, you do me one favor, I'll do you another back. It's, it's the way Italian society works to a certain extent. And they presumably felt that Moggi a very powerful person. He can do them favors they would do him favors , and something, you know, the system worked fine for them. But the problem is it's left Italian football in a state of crisis.
Sunday Juventus won the Italian championship for a record of 29th time, but the allegations are about last season and Italy's leading sports daily suggests Juventus could be stripped of its last two titles. In Torino, Juventus hometown many fans are angry at their team.
They ruined football even if I'm a Juventus fan, says this man, but Juventus didn't need this kind of help. We could have won anyway. And some fans say Juventus' relationship with referees was suspiciously cozy9.
I hope justice will be done, she says, if I didn't believe in that I would have not come to the match. I think there are people who can help us restore confidence in the game.
The scandal has also cast a cloud over Italy's world cup team. The magistrates10 are investigating allegations that the goalkeeper has illegally bet on games and whether or not Luciano Moggi had a say on which players should be selected for the national team traveling to Germany for the World Cup, an allegation that Italy's national coach Marcello Lippi flatly denies.
Alessio Vinci, CNN, Rome. dissenter magistrate cosy referee
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magistrate 地方官员
cosy 舒适安逸的
referee 仲裁人
dissenter 反对者
1 referees | |
n.裁判员( referee的名词复数 );证明人;公断人;(专业性强的文章的)审阅人 | |
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2 investigation | |
n.调查,调查研究 | |
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3 accounting | |
n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表 | |
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4 inquiry | |
n.打听,询问,调查,查问 | |
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5 dissenter | |
n.反对者 | |
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6 malice | |
n.恶意,怨恨,蓄意;[律]预谋 | |
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7 investigators | |
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 ) | |
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8 analyzing | |
v.分析;分析( analyze的现在分词 );分解;解释;对…进行心理分析n.分析 | |
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9 cozy | |
adj.亲如手足的,密切的,暖和舒服的 | |
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10 magistrates | |
地方法官,治安官( magistrate的名词复数 ) | |
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