体育类新闻

7.12　体育类新闻

随着全球竞技体育事业的蓬勃发展，体育新闻也是新闻报道中的一个重要领域。但是，由于体育运动门类繁多，各种专业术语用成千上万来形容也不为过，如同样是体育比赛中的分组，大多数运动项目中称为group，但也有的称为pool，还有的使用heat。同样是计分制的球类比赛中的局点(局分)，一般都叫做game point，可是在排球中却叫做set point。又如，足球比赛中的90分钟打满之后的补时叫additional time，而90分钟打满之后打加时赛就叫做extratime，而在可以请求暂停的比赛中的暂停则是time out。此外，欧美国家的体育新闻报道在写作上已经形成了固定的形态特点和语言风格，因此，体育新闻翻译是所有新闻翻译中的一大难点。在这种情况下，多掌握相关词汇和句式乃是一个基本前提，而要做到这一点，译者就必须注意在平时积累大量的信息和拓宽知识面，尤其需要多多阅读欧美国家的体育新闻报道，熟悉其报道风格，学习其词汇使用特点，模仿其句子表达方式。如，同样是表示运动员获得冠军的新闻报道标题，我国的新闻写作在用词和句式方面相对比较简单，主要有夺冠、赢得/夺得冠军、折桂、问鼎等，变化较少，而欧美国家的英语新闻报道的表达形式比较多，可以说win gold，get gold，grab gold，claim gold，clinch gold，snatch gold，take gold，pocket gold，claim crown，win title等。而表达卫冕则可以说retain gold，defend title等。以我国女子体操队在2008年北京奥运会上获得团体冠军这一新闻为例，欧美国家对此报道时采用的标题就有以下一些:

China wins women's artistic gymnastics team gold

China wins women's gymnastics team Olympic gold

Chinese women gymnasts claim first Olympic team crown

Chinese women clinch team gymnastics gold

Chinese women gymnasts claim first Olympic team crown

Olympics-Gymnastics-Chinese women claim first ever gold

由于体育运动方面的专门名称和术语繁多，限于篇幅不可能一一列出，而且欧美国家的体育新闻在句式上已形成明显风格，这里就举三篇北京奥运会体育新闻报道的实例来帮助读者获得相关了解和认识。

体育新闻报道实例一

China grabs gold，bronze in doubles badminton

The Chinese added to their medal haul on Day 7 at the Beijing Games，winning gold and bronze as the first badminton medals were handed out．

China's Yang Yu and Jing Du took gold with a 21-15，21-13 win over Kyung-Won Lee and Hyo-Jung Lee of South Korea．

Yili Wei and Yawen Zhang were 21-17，21-10 winners over Japan's Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsana in the bronze-medal match．

Top-seeded Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia advanced to the final of the men's badminton doubles by defeating Denmark's Lars Paaske and Jonas Rasmussen 21-19，21-17 on Friday．

The Indonesians will face second-seeded Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China in the final．The Chinese pair advanced by defeating South Koreans Lee Jae-jin and Hwang Ji-man 22-20，21-8．

“It's a tough call between the Indonesian and Chinese teams，”Bob Milroy，president of the World Badminton Players Federation and a Canadian national men's singles player，said before the tournament．“They're two great pairs with distinctly different styles，each with the experience and the tools to claim the gold．”

He said the Indonesians“appear so relaxed，you'll think it's a Sunday social league．”He added that the Chinese“seem to have three espressos before every match and play with a wildness only seen on the Discovery Channel．”

All-Chinese women's singles final

In women's singles，Xie Xingfang and Zhang Ning will meet in an all-Chinese final on Saturday．Xie is the top-seeded player in the Olympic tournament and Zhang is seeded second．

Xie is the top-ranked player in the world and a two-time world champion．Zhang is ranked second in the world，won the world title in 2003 and is the defending Olympic champion．

Xie advanced by defeating compatriot Lu Lan 7-21，21-10，21-12 in one semifinal，while Zhang advanced by beating Indonesia's Maria Kristin Yulianti 21-15，21-15．

Lu and Yulianti will square off in the bronze-medal match．

体育新闻报道实例二

China win men's gymnastics team gold

China won the Olympic Games gold medal in the men's team gymnastics competition at the National Indoor Stadium on Tuesday．

The Chinese snuffed out challenges from defending champions Japan and the United States to spark wild celebrations among the cheering home crowd．

A Chinese team featuring three world champions won the men's team title for the second time following victory in Sydney in 2000，making amends for a disappointing fifth place in Athens four years ago．

China finished on 286.125 points，7.25 points ahead of arch-rival Japan on 278.875，while an injury-weakened US team put in a gutsy effort to take bronze on 275.85．

With eight teams contesting the finals，China was paired with Japan as it went through the six men's apparatus．

Led by world champion individual title holder Yang Wei，the Chinese came out to a deafening roar in the 18，000 capacity stadium，where the flag-waving crowd was expecting nothing less than gold．

But China's opening gymnast on the floor exercise Chen Yibing stumbled on the final run of his routine and scored a modest 14.575，leaving China trailing Japan by half a point at the end of the first round．

There were then boos from the stands after Huang Xu received a disappointing 14.75 on pommel horse before the world champion on the apparatus Xiao Qin put the hosts 0.4 points ahead of Japan at the end of round two．

China's depth of talent allowed them to call on the rings world champion Chen Yibing to extend the lead in the next round，the gymnast whipping the crowd into a frenzy pumping his fists after a 16.575 point display．

However，the injury-weakened US team showed it would not be a walkover for the Chinese when it took the overall lead at the end of the third of six rounds．

Missing the Athens individual champion Paul Hamm and his brother Morgan，the US exceeded expectations to lead China by 0.825 points at the halfway mark．

The American men then built on their momentum when they took the high bar，where a spectacular one-handed swinging rotation by Justin Spring had chants of“U-S-A，U-S-A”ringing around the stadium．

But the Chinese had the answers，Li Xiopeng pulling off a 16.775 vault to put China 1.575 points ahead at the end of the fourth round．

Heading into the final round，the Chinese looked unbeatable，leading the United States by 5.2 points and Japan by 6.9，huge margins under the new gymnastics scoring system，where routines are no longer marked out of 10．

The United States were in silver medal position but poor pommel horse routines from Kei Wen Tan and Raj Bhavsar allowed Japan to finish second after a strong team performance on the high bar．

China's dominance was such that the last gymnast to perform on high bar，Zou Kai，needed only 8.725 to clinch the gold．He scored 15.975 to set off a round of foot-stamping and cheering in stands．

体育新闻报道实例三

China's Xian，Japan's Masato defend Olympic judo titles

Defending lightweight judo champions Xian Dongmei of China and Uchishiba Masato of Japan won their second straight Olympic gold medals on Day 2 of the Beijing Games．

Xian did so on home turf in the 52-kilogram division on the women's side，earning China's first judo medal and the country's fifth gold of the Games．She beat Korea's An Kum-ae in the final with two koka，or 10-second holds．

Bronze medals on the women's side were won by Algeria's Soraya Haddad and Nakamura Misato of Japan．Haddad beat Kazakhstan's Sholpan Kaliyeva in the first bronze medal final，and Misato beat Korea's Kim Kyun-gok．

In the men's 66-kg division，Masato beat Benjamin Darbalet of France in the gold medal final with an ippon，a throw that means instant victory．

One bronze medal went to Cuba's Yordanis Arencibia，who also won bronze at the 2004 Games and is a three-time world championship bronze medallist．

Korea's Pak Chol-min won the other bronze medal．

Canada's Sasha Mehmedovic，23，lost in the third round of the repechage to Russian Alim Gadanov．