u have to make more choices, because he has more players where he can choose. the club coaches, there are only 20 players, 22 one time, 18 players, i think i have all country. you choose the players and you work with the players, and i believe i have a lot of confidence to do this.

i have a lot of confidence because otherwise, i wouldn't come so big country and i think it has a very big future here and maybe i like to be a part of it, and this confidence i have to bring the team in a higher level, and what mr. hiddink concerns, he did a fantastic job, and certainly we are looking, everybody was looking in western europe, especially holland, where he was working. what a fine job he was doing and i really can hope i do the same. i have surely the confidence to do it.

阿里·汉就任国家队主教练新闻发布会

各位早上好！对我来说现在还是晚上，所以请原谅。

我从一开始加深了对中国足球的了解便发现我们有着几个目标：首先是进军2004年的亚洲杯，紧跟着是使球队做好准备，争取获得2006年世界杯的决赛权。所以，我对中国足球有信心，我相信我的眼光。我们能在亚洲杯取得佳绩，也能获得进入2006年德国世界杯的资格。对此我信心十足。我希望大家也是如此，这样我们便会成功。

关于执教国家队，是的，我说过我曾当了17年的国际球员、国家队球员以及好几年的俱乐部教练，这期间我与许多国家队教练共过事。所以很久以来我就知道当国家队教练与当俱乐部教练不一样。但你的抉择更多了，因为你有更多的球员可供挑选。对俱乐部教练来说，时常只有20名、22名，偶尔18名球员可供选择，而现在我想我可以在全国挑选。由你来选择球员并与他们共事，我相信对于做好工作我是信心百倍。

我非常有信心，否则我也不会到这么大的国家来执教。中国足球有远大前程，我很乐意参与进来。我有信心把球队推上一个更高的档次，这也是希丁克先生所关心的，他就干得很出色，我们看到了，在西欧尤其是荷兰，所有的人也都看到了，他的工作有多么出色！我衷心希望自己也能同样出色，对此我当然有信心。

注释:

1) qualify for 使合格，有……的资格

2) confidence n. 信心

3) coach n. 教练

★★《2003年05月号-第40期-disc02-12》★★

uriel yak 尤里专线 (2)

uriel: crazy english-land, welcome to uriel yak. this is uriel, and with me in the studio, i have alex....

alex: hi uriel.

uriel: alex, a foreigner, a british person, who's living in china. welcome, alex!

a: uh, hi uriel!

u: hi!

a: thanks for having me on your show.

u: ah, it's a pleasure. i understand that you like cellphones, however.

a: ummm, yes.... and i understand that you don't.

u: well, i am one of the last people in china not to have a cellphone.... and that does...

a: i think....

u: ... give a clue to my attitude about them....

a: in china, isn't a cellphone an actual status symbol?

u: is it a status symbol?

a: along with a car, yes.

u: how can.... i mean, that's like saying that having two arms and eyes is a status symbol. i mean, everybody seems to have a cellphone here. you were saying that you used to make thousands of cellphones every day....

a: yes, i used to have links with the mobile phone industry.

u: yeah....

a: ummm.... but now they've been cut, i do still tend to look at mobile phones and i used to spend maybe two thousand yuan a day on mobile phones in my industry. and now i get worried when i spend over ten yuan.

u: what do you mean, you used to spend two thousand a day?

a: ummm, i used to do testing for around the world... so it would put me on a plane... i'd go to somewhere like south africa... i would phone up finland and ask them, "does this work?"

u: making all those long distance phone calls, you were... you were using two thousand yuan a day of air time, is that right?

a: easily.

u: ok, ah.

a: yeah, they loved me at the people who took the money, i can say.

u: you were actually travelling to a lot of places on behalf of these testing agencies?

a: uh yeah, travelling all around the world... i was based in paris, and before that i was based in england, going around just testing bits here and there. suddenly a mobile phone that was new would not work in the middle of russia. so, they get to send poor me out to the middle of russia, in the middle of the snow, to make a phone call.

u: well, you were talking about your first arrival in china.

a: oh, my first arrival in china! that was an experience. i think that first few hours in china is what china is for me. i basically came from hong kong straight in to the east train station. and i arrive into the station, i've got a huge back.... this is like....

u: guangzhou station.

a: guangzhou east train station.

u: yup.

a: ... a huge backpack on, two huge suitcases.... i'm pretty big guy and carry a lot, but i been carrying this all day and it was a boiling hot day.... the sun was shining, the temperatures were soaring, and i was meant to be meeting this chinese person in the train station.

u: who was it? who had you connected with before you arrived?

a: ummm.... somebody who was gonna offer me a job. i'd organized and applied for and received, uh, a job when i arrived....

u: a teaching job?

a: a teaching job, yes.

u: yeah, yeah....

a: and when i arrived at the train station... like... there was nobody....

u: nobody there. you're on your own, and your chinese language skills are....

a: zip ... absolutely zip.

u: nil.

a: nothing. nada. and i'm, like, "ok, what do i do? what do i do?"

u: panic.

a: panic sets in. i run around the station. i'm running out of the station, i'm running into the station, and with this much luggage, you can see, in this heat, i'm starting to really g