▲If we get married, I'll make you hot dogs every day.
(如果我們結婚,我每天幫你做熱狗。)──連續六連霸的日本選手小林尊(Takeru Kobayashi)在這次吃熱狗大賽中,因罹患下巴關節炎而敗下陣來,但他的一名死忠粉絲仍力挺他到底
▲I'm doing fine. I am getting better. What do you want me to say That I'm dead Well I'm not. At the moment I am thinking of the nice fish supper I am going to have tonight.
(我還好,情況已經改善,你們要我說什麼呢?說我死了嗎?但我沒死。現在我只想今晚好好吃一頓魚排晚餐。)──正和胰臟癌搏鬥的71歲男高音帕華洛帝(Luciano Pavarotti)據傳來日無多,他出面闢謠
▲It's true that the wind is blowing against us at the moment. But they say that a plane cannot fly high without an opposing wind.
(的確,目前風向對我們不利,但大家都知道,飛機要逆風才能起飛。)──日本將於7月29日舉行參議院選舉,首相安倍晉三(Shinzo Abe),因防衛大臣失言和農林水產大臣赤城德彥報假帳醜聞,聲望跌到新低,但他仍表示,執政的自民黨有信心贏得這次選舉
▲Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning.
(溫布頓是世上最無聊的比賽,除了網球,幾乎無所事是,你常常呵欠連連。)──俄羅斯男網第6種子戴維登柯(Nikolay Davydenko)接受俄國媒體訪問時,對溫布頓賽事因雨一延再延表示不滿