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原文：
Winning Respect
By making it into the second round, Korea has grown up as a nation.
No matter what mom said, it's never just a game. Football is about ego, respect, national pride. South Korea, for one, has turned the sport into a quest for its very identity, its hopes captured in the cheer that rings through the nation's World Cup stadiums: "Great Republic of Korea." A country often consigned to an after-thought in East Asia is out to prove that it, too, matters. Last week, it did so, by gliding through to the second round with skill and flair. That singular achievement, though, was not just about Korea's arrival as a football force but as a self-confident adult nation to be taken seriously.
Sandwiched between economic giant Japan and rising superpower China, Korea has always shouldered an inferiority complex. When the country won the right to co-host the World Cup, it saw a chance to showcase itself--particularly to Japan, its neighbor, and the U.S., its oft-contentious ally. Officials plugged Korea as Asia's most wired nation, and touted the country's capital as being as hip and caffeinated as any modern metropolis. Said bleached-haired midfielder Kim Nam II on the eve of Korea’s 2002 debut: "We want to show we are a team--and a nation--that can compete with the best, and win."
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翻译要点：
consign to 交付，移交，被
flair 天才，本领，实力
midfielder 中场队员
1. By making it into the second round, Korea has grown up as a nation.
By making it into the second round, Korea has grown up as a nation：直译为“通过打入第二轮，韩国作为一个国家成熟了”。但这样的译文，尤其作为新闻副标题，过于平淡拖沓，这里可根据上下文和中文新闻副标题对仗特点意译：“世界杯闯入第二轮，韩国人由此获自尊”。
2. No matter what mom said, it's never just a game.
本句如直译为：“不管妈妈怎么说，足球不只是一种游戏”，在文章的开头显得过于突兀。这里不妨改译为:“我妈妈总是说，足球只是一种游戏，可事实并非如此。”
3. South Korea, for one, has turned the sport into a quest for its very identity, its hopes captured in the cheer that rings through the nation's World Cup stadiums: "Great Republic of Korea."
World Cup：世界杯足球锦标赛。这里指2002年6月日本韩国合办的第17届世界杯足球锦标赛，比赛中韩国队进入四强。有时简称为the Cup。... its hopes captured in the cheer that rings through the nation's World Cup stadiums: “Great Republic of Korea.”是独立主格结构，意为：这个民族的希望全部包含在这句口号里了。要注意的是，这里capture一词的根本意义为“抓住”。
4. A country often consigned to an after-thought in East Asia is out to prove that it, too, matters.
after- thought本意为“事后才想起来的东西或事物”，所以可译为“被人遗忘的国家”。成语is out to (do something) 意为“竭尽全力去做某事”。此外，matter一词也不好译，可根据上下文，译为“举足轻重的(国家)”。
5. That singular achievement, though, was not just about Korea's arrival as a football force but as a self-confident adult nation to be taken seriously.
名词短语Korea's arrival as a football force中的动作性名词arrival通常应译为动词，此处可译为：韩国成长为足球强国。
6. When the country won the right to co-host the World Cup, it saw a chance to showcase itself--particularly to Japan, its neighbor, and the U.S., its oft-contentious ally.
本句的两个同位语its neighbor、its oft-contentious ally汉译时，就调整为前置的定语：其邻国日本，和与其矛盾不断的盟国美国。
7. Officials plugged Korea as Asia's most wired nation, and touted the country's capital as being as hip and caffeinated as any modern metropolis.
英语新闻中用词生动，常常“人无我有，人有我新”，使文章更添创意，更具可读性，本句中如plug、wired、tout、hip、caffeinated等。这给翻译带来了挑战，有时候不得不做出牺牲，采用较平实的译文。
8. Said bleached-haired midfielder Kim Nam II on the eve of Korea’s 2002 debut: "We want to show we are a team--and a nation--that can compete with the best, and win."
本句中的we are a team--and a nation在意义上省略较多，如直译为“我们是一支球队--一个民族”，读者会不知所云，所以应把省略的意义适当补充出来。
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