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世界杯淘汰赛惊天冷门：恩西索先拔头筹哈弗茨扳平鏖战加时，巴拉圭点球四比三淘汰夺冠热门德国
World Cup Knockout Shock: Enciso Opens, Havertz Levels, a Goalless Extra Time — Then Paraguay Beat Favorites Germany 4-3 on Penalties
An advanced Chinese listening lesson on a stunning World Cup upset: Enciso puts Paraguay ahead, Havertz levels, extra time settles nothing, and Paraguay beat title-favorite Germany 4-3 on penalties. A full review of shootout nerve, why favorites fall in knockouts, and German football's decline.
This is an HSK 5-6 Chinese listening episode that runs about 6 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 7 key vocabulary words such as 复盘、毋庸置疑、大跌眼镜 and walks through 3 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
今天我们来复盘一场足以载入本届世界杯史册的惊天大冷门:巴拉圭在点球大战中,将夺冠热门德国淘汰出局。
Today we're reviewing a stunning upset fit for this World Cup's history books: Paraguay, in a penalty shootout, knocked title-favorite Germany out.
请务必看清这个顺序——是巴拉圭把德国送回了老家,而非相反。
Please be sure to read the order clearly — it's Paraguay who sent Germany home, not the reverse.
这样一个结果摆在眼前,恐怕连不少巴拉圭球迷自己,都要反复确认几遍才敢相信。
With such a result before their eyes, even quite a few Paraguay fans themselves probably had to confirm it several times before daring to believe.
先掂量一下双方的分量。
First, let's weigh the two sides.
德国是世界足坛毋庸置疑的超级豪门,历史上数度捧起大力神杯,阵中球员几乎清一色征战于欧洲顶级联赛,无论底蕴还是身价,都属于金字塔的顶端。
Germany is an unquestionable super-giant of world soccer, having lifted the trophy several times in history, their players almost all campaigning in Europe's top leagues; in both pedigree and market value, they sit at the pyramid's peak.
巴拉圭则来自南美,实力并不算弱,但论纸面阵容与名气,和德国确实不在同一个量级。
Paraguay, by contrast, comes from South America, not weak by any means, but in paper squad and fame, genuinely not in the same class as Germany.
因此赛前的舆论几乎一边倒,人们默认德国会波澜不惊地顺利过关。
So pre-match opinion was nearly one-sided, people assuming Germany would pass through smoothly, without a ripple.
然而,若把镜头往前拉一拉便会发现,德国本届世界杯其实一直踢得磕磕绊绊。
Yet if you pull the camera back a little, you'll find Germany had actually stumbled all through this World Cup.
早在小组赛阶段,他们就曾爆冷不敌厄瓜多尔,整体状态始终谈不上稳定。
Back in the group stage, they'd suffered an upset loss to Ecuador, their overall form never quite stable.
尽管最终凭借深厚的底子还是以小组头名惊险出线,但隐患早已悄然埋下,今天这场失利,不过是让积压已久的问题集中引爆罢了。
Though in the end, on the strength of their deep foundation, they still squeaked through as group winners, the hidden troubles had long been quietly laid, and today's defeat merely detonated the long-pent-up problems all at once.
我们顺着比赛的脉络往下看。
Let's follow the thread of the game.
让全场大跌眼镜的是,率先打破僵局的,竟然是巴拉圭。
To the whole stadium's astonishment, the one to break the deadlock first was, of all teams, Paraguay.
上半场,恩西索抓住机会冷静破门,一比零。
In the first half, Enciso seized a chance to finish coolly, one to zero.
落后之后,德国明显乱了方寸、急于求成——毕竟这是淘汰赛,一旦告负便要即刻卷铺盖回家。
Behind, Germany clearly lost their composure and grew hasty — after all, this is the knockouts, and one defeat means packing up and going home at once.
所幸下半场,哈弗茨挺身而出扳平比分,一比一,总算把德国从悬崖的边缘硬生生拉了回来。
Fortunately in the second half, Havertz stepped up to level it, one to one, forcibly pulling Germany back from the cliff's edge.
此后,两队都渴望在常规时间内一锤定音,可攻防往复之间,谁也未能再下一城。
After that, both teams longed to settle it in regulation, but through the back-and-forth of attack and defense, neither could add another.
九十分钟战成平手,比赛被拖入加时。
Ninety minutes drawn, the game was dragged into extra time.
加时赛的三十分钟里,双方依旧难分伯仲,比分死死钉在一比一,纹丝不动。
Across the thirty minutes of extra time, the two remained inseparable, the score nailed firmly and motionless at one to one.
最终,这场势均力敌、寸土必争的对决,只能诉诸最残酷、也最扣人心弦的方式来了断——点球大战。
In the end, this evenly matched, every-inch-contested duel could only be settled by the cruelest and most gripping means — a penalty shootout.
点球大战,某种意义上考验的早已不再是脚下技术,而是一名球员的心脏与意志。
A shootout, in a sense, no longer tests footwork but a player's heart and will.
当你孤身一人站在十二码线前,背负着一个国家的期待,面对着数万人的注视与门将的步步紧逼,那份泰山压顶般的压力,是常人难以想象的。
When you stand utterly alone at the twelve-yard spot, bearing a nation's hopes, facing the gaze of tens of thousands and the keeper's step-by-step pressure, that mountain-crushing stress is beyond ordinary imagining.
一记罚失,可能就意味着一支球队苦战至今的世界杯征程就此戛然而止。
One missed kick can mean a team's hard-fought World Cup journey ends abruptly right there.
而在这场纯粹比拼神经与胆魄的较量中,巴拉圭笑到了最后——他们以四比三罚进了更多的点球,爆冷将德国淘汰。
And in this contest of pure nerve and daring, Paraguay laughed last — they converted more penalties, four to three, and pulled off the upset, eliminating Germany.
终场的那一刻,巴拉圭全队疯狂地奔跑、拥抱、宣泄;而德国众将则失魂落魄地伫立在原地,满脸写着难以置信的错愕与不甘。
At the final moment, the whole Paraguay team ran, embraced, and let it all out; while Germany's players stood rooted in place, dazed and dispirited, faces written with disbelieving shock and unresigned anguish.
其实,强队在淘汰赛中意外翻车,绝非什么新鲜的剧本。
Actually, favorites crashing out unexpectedly in the knockouts is by no means a new script.
小组赛尚可凭借实力慢慢周旋,一场踢得不好,还有下一场来弥补;可淘汰赛截然不同,它将所有的偶然与残酷,都压缩进了短短的一两个小时之内。
The group stage still lets you maneuver slowly on quality; play one game poorly and there's the next to make up for it. But the knockouts are utterly different — they compress all the chance and cruelty into a short hour or two.
只要你有一个瞬间的松懈、一次处理球的失误,精心书写的故事便可能就此终结。
One moment's slackness, one mishandled ball, and the carefully written story may end right there.
更微妙的是,面对一支破釜沉舟、毫无心理包袱的弱旅,强队反而极易背上"只许胜不许败"的沉重枷锁,踢得畏首畏尾、束手束脚。
More subtly still, facing a weaker side that has burned its boats and carries no mental baggage, a strong team instead very easily shoulders the heavy yoke of "victory the only option," playing timid and tied up in knots.
巴拉圭恰恰吃透了这一点——他们本就没什么可失去的,于是踢得愈发放松、愈发凶悍;而德国越是渴望稳稳拿下,便越是容易陷入患得患失的泥潭。
Paraguay grasped exactly this — with nothing to lose in the first place, they played ever more relaxed and ferocious; while the more Germany craved a steady close-out, the more they sank into the mire of fretting over gains and losses.
这种心态上的此消彼长,往往正是一场冷门得以孕育、诞生的温床。
This shift in mentality is often the very breeding ground where an upset is conceived and born.
那么,这场比赛究竟该如何评判?
So, how exactly should this game be judged?
对德国而言,这无疑是一场惨痛而尴尬的失利。
For Germany, this is undoubtedly a painful and embarrassing defeat.
作为夺冠热门却早早出局,足以让整个国家的足球陷入一场深刻的反思。
As title favorites going out early, it's enough to plunge the whole nation's soccer into a deep reflection.
但足球的残酷与迷人,恰恰就并存于此:实力占优,从来都不等于稳操胜券,尤其是在点球这种"运气与心理几乎各占一半"的终极对决面前,没有任何一方能够拍着胸脯说自己稳赢。
But soccer's cruelty and allure coexist right here: superior quality never equals a sure win, especially before a shootout, that ultimate "roughly half luck, half nerve" duel, where no side can thump their chest and call themselves certain winners.
值得多说几句的,是德国足球这些年的处境。
Worth a few more words is the state of German soccer in recent years.
在很长一段时间里,德国都是世界杯上那支最令人生畏的球队——纪律严明、意志顽强、大赛经验丰富,越到关键时刻越可靠,"德国战车"这个称号,
For a long stretch, Germany was the most feared team at the World Cup — rigorously disciplined, iron-willed, rich in big-tournament experience, ever more reliable the more crucial the moment; the nickname "the German machine"
曾让无数对手闻风丧胆。
once struck fear into countless opponents.
可最近这些年,这支昔日的王者,却似乎渐渐丢掉了那份独有的稳定与霸气,几届大赛都早早折戟,状态起起伏伏,再难找回当年那种一往无前的气势。
But in recent years, this former king seems to have gradually lost that unique steadiness and dominance, bowing out early in several major tournaments, form fluctuating, unable to recover that old, unstoppable momentum.
今天的出局,与其说是一次意外,不如说是这种下滑趋势的又一次印证。
Today's exit is, rather than an accident, better called yet another confirmation of this downward trend.
对德国足球而言,如何重建自信、找回属于自己的那套东西,恐怕是比这一场胜负更值得深思的课题。
For German soccer, how to rebuild confidence and rediscover their own identity is, perhaps, a question far more worth pondering than this single result.
而对巴拉圭来说,这则是一座足以被铭记许多年的丰碑。
And for Paraguay, this is a monument fit to be remembered for many years.
对这支南美球队而言,能重新回到世界杯的舞台,本就已属不易;而能在这方最高的舞台上,亲手掀翻德国这样的庞然大物,更是几代球迷做梦都不敢奢望的剧本。
For this South American team, simply returning to the World Cup stage was already no small feat; and to topple a colossus like Germany with their own hands on this highest stage is a script generations of their fans wouldn't have dared dream of.
这样一个夜晚,足以点燃整个国家对足球的热情,也会成为激励无数巴拉圭孩子拿起足球的火种。
A night like this is enough to ignite a whole nation's passion for soccer, and will become a spark that inspires countless Paraguayan children to pick up a ball.
他们不惧强敌、死战到底,又在点球大战那泼天的压力之下稳住了心神,这份过人的勇气与坚韧的意志,值得每一个热爱足球的人,献上最由衷的敬意。
They feared no strong foe, fought to the death, and steadied their nerve under the sky-high pressure of a shootout — this extraordinary courage and resilient will deserves, from every person who loves soccer, the most heartfelt respect.
这就是巴拉圭点球淘汰德国——一场彻头彻尾属于勇敢者的世界杯大冷门。
That's Paraguay knocking Germany out on penalties — a World Cup upset that belongs, through and through, to the brave.
我们下一场再会。
See you next match.
比赛后从头到尾分析一遍。今天我们来复盘这场比赛。
成语。完全不用怀疑。德国是毋庸置疑的超级豪门。
成语。结果太意外、跌破眼镜。让全场大跌眼镜的是巴拉圭先进球。
成语。太想快点成功，反而乱了节奏。落后后德国急于求成。
成语。压力极大。点球线前那种泰山压顶般的压力。
成语。断了退路、拼死一搏。一支破釜沉舟、毫无包袱的弱旅。
成语。一听到就吓破胆。德国战车曾让对手闻风丧胆。
* beyond level超纲词
与其说…，不如说…
'Rather than say… it's better to say…' — reframes toward a truer reading.
今天的出局，与其说是意外，不如说是下滑趋势的又一次印证。
恰恰就在于此
'Lies precisely here' — pins down where the essence is.
足球的残酷与迷人，恰恰就并存于此。
本就…，更是…
'Was already…, and even more…' — escalates from hard to harder.
回到世界杯本就不易，掀翻德国更是不敢奢望的剧本。