实战口语情景对话 第854期:Sports Divided 体育代表队的区别

Yuri: Shirley, one question. I'm a bit confused now. One thing, about sports. Sometimes, I can see U.K. play something with a team. Sometimes you're all divided. Why is that?
尤里：雪莉，我有一个问题。我现在有点混乱。这个问题与体育有关。我发现有的时候英国是作为一个代表队参赛，而有时又是分为不同队伍参赛。为什么会这样？

Shirley: So, we are essentially still four countries, four separate countries in a united kingdom, so yeah, basically each country just wanted to keep their national team.
雪莉：从本质上说，我们仍是四个国家，是联合王国里四个不同的国家，每个国家都想保留自己的国家队。

In the case of the olympics, for some reason, and I'm not sure of the exact reason, but the olympics committee didn't want four divided teams from Great Britain. They wanted a representative of the United Kingdom, so they basically made the rule that Great Britain had to send a team and not teams from the four individual countries.
就奥运会来说，不知什么原因，我不太清楚具体的原因，不过奥委会不希望大不列颠分为四个不同的队。他们希望由一个代表联合王国的队伍参赛，所以奥委会规定，大不列颠只能派出一个代表队参赛，不能派出四个代表队。

So, yeah, so we are United Kingdom but we're still very much four independent countries and each country is very proud of their own national teams for football and for rugby and things like that.
虽然我们是联合王国，但是仍是四个非常独立的国家，在足球、橄榄球领域，每个国家都以自己的国家队为荣。But, yeah, it's good that we get together for the olympics and we can perform as one united country.不过，我们团结起来参加奥运会很不错，因为这样我们可以作为一个团结的国家参加竞赛。

Yuri: OK, thank you very much.
尤里：好，非常谢谢你。