英伦广角 2012-05-05 霍奇森出任英格兰队主帅 带队参加欧洲杯

 It's a very proud day for me, I’m a very happy man to be offered the chance to manage my country. I’m looking forward enormously to the task ahead.

 

Everyone knows it is not a an easy one but I’m also hoping that everybody, fans and supporters, everybody in the country will get behind the team, because it is the team that counts, and it is the team which will win the matches.

 

And what I’ll do is I’ll do my very best to make sure the team is well prepared as possible for the task that lie ahead. I’m grateful to the chance to be manager of England and I’m very looking forward to it.

 

I’ve got great respect for Harry¹. He sent me a voicemail message, which I will of course reply to. He's been very gracious in everything he's done. I hope we will remain friends. We have unwittingly become rivals, but I’ll be one of the factor of our freindship, and I think he is still with the situation extreamly valid². With these interviews I appreciate they perhaps send him a message. 

 

And doubles our sports news correspondent Wembley. Well up a week ago, nobody was talking about Roy Hodgson. Today, it’s the new man that at the helm. What’ve made of it all?

 

Well, not only a week of course, it was Sunday everning before people were talking about Roy Hodgson and of course he had a bit of pieces of mentions as someboby might be on the shortlist, might not be on the shortlist of the FA. 

 

Harry Redknapp was the man that everybody was pointing to as the preferred candidate at the FA. And actually during that press conference David Bernstein the FA chairman told me Wednesday that it was about a month ago. So the beginning of April when they decided³ on Roy Hodgson as the singular preferred candidate for this job, a month ago. So everybody has been talking about Harry Redknapp really for the last month. And the FA really had made through with all them in one respect. 

And it’s also difficult to believe that the FA managed to keep that secret for quite so long; it’s a, it’s quite something to pull off, in today’s media world, of course. 

 

But Roy Hodgson really had just sat there, today he was very composed, and he gave a very mature performance, he also, clearly, has a passion for the game which, which came out in everything he said. And he accepts that he has got a big job of turning around popular opinion. He wants to get the media on his side of course, who have showed in the last couple of days that they might not be the supporters and the players; he accepts such a difficult job but clearly it’s one of the relishing⁴. 

 

And there’s no doubt that the people’s choice and the press’ choice was Harry and the FA had a heat of a bit of risk on they flying in the face of public and press opionion. 

 

Yes. They are because on, I think it was on February 9th that David Bernstein and that Clobin Glinduge that we saw today around Roy Hodgson sat down and told us about the demise⁵, if you like, of Fabio Capello the day before, and said that the next day they would put together a shortlist and in one stage during that press conference they were asked, ‘Will you listen to popular opinion because it’s been disregarded in the past,’ and David Bernstein gave the answer ‘Yes, we will listen to that.’ 

 

Well, as you pointed⁶ out correctly, Geromi, it appeared over the last few days they had flawn in the face of that. And if that goes wrong, and it could go catastrophicly wrong because you’ll riot against the Euro 2012, the big major championships, which could be an embarrassment⁷, and on the other hand it could be a great victorious⁸ time for England and Roy Hodgson. But if it would go wrong that quickly, the honeymoon⁹, if there is one, is over. And of course all fingers will point at the men who made that decision. 

 

So, it’s a brave decision, but of course as David Bernstein points out, this is the first time that England have brought in a manager wid any international experience at all. So, it’s a calculated one; and let’s see if it comes off.

1 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

2 valid   

adj.有确实根据的；有效的；正当的，合法的

参考例句：

• His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
• Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗？

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 relishing   

v.欣赏( relish的现在分词 )；从…获得乐趣；渴望

参考例句：

• He ate quietly, relishing his meal. 他安静地吃着，细细品味着食物。 来自辞典例句
• Yes, an iron rampart," he repeated, relishing his phrase. 是的，就是铜墙铁壁，"他很欣赏自己用的这个字眼，又重复了一遍。 来自飘（部分）

5 demise   

n.死亡；v.让渡，遗赠，转让

参考例句：

• He praised the union's aims but predicted its early demise.他赞扬协会的目标，但预期这一协会很快会消亡。
• The war brought about the industry's sudden demise.战争道致这个行业就这么突然垮了。

6 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

7 embarrassment   

n.尴尬；使人为难的人(事物)；障碍；窘迫

参考例句：

• She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
• Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。

8 victorious   

adj.胜利的，得胜的

参考例句：

• We are certain to be victorious.我们定会胜利。
• The victorious army returned in triumph.获胜的部队凯旋而归。

9 honeymoon   

n.蜜月（假期）；vi.度蜜月

参考例句：

• While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
• The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。