Dialogue 1

Mark: Jingjing, have you been seeing all the FIFA advertisements?
马克：京晶，你有没有看过 FIFA所有的广告？
Jingjing: Yeah, I think a lot of companies in China are official sponsors. So I see the FIFA symbol everywhere. By the way, do you know what FIFA stands for?
京晶：有啊，我觉得很多中国的公司都是官方赞助商，所以我到处都看见FIFA的标志。对了，你知道FIFA代表什么吗？
Mark: You got me. Do you know?
马克：你问住我了。那你知道吗？
Jingjing: Yeah, but I just looked it up: Fédération Internationale de Football Association.
京晶：对，可是我刚才查到的，全名是国际足球联合会。
Mark: That sounds French.
马克：听起来很像法语呢。
Jingjing: It is. But the organization has its headquarters in Zürich. Go figure, right?
京晶：对。其实它的总部是在苏黎世。很奇怪，是吧？
Mark: And FIFA is hosted in Russia this year. I just saw the mascot for the first time the other day.
马克：还有今年的FIFA在俄罗斯举办。 有一天我第一次看见这次比赛的吉祥物了。
Jingjing: Oh, really? What's it look like?
京晶：噢，真的吗？它是什么样子的？
Mark: It's a wolf.
马克：是一只狼。
Jingjing: I'm surprised it's not a bear.
京晶：很惊讶竟然不是熊。
Mark: Yeah, they went with a wolf. The other ideas were a tiger and a cat. Those were the designs that made it to the final decision. A student won the design contest.
马克：是的，他们最后选择了狼。另外两个想法是一只老虎和一只猫，这些都是进入最后定稿的设计。一名学生赢得了这个吉祥物设计比赛。
Jingjing: Oh, I thought it might be because a bear was used by another country in a previous year.
京晶：噢，我还以为是熊，因为之前另外一个国家用了熊。
Mark: That makes sense. But England and Germany used a lion for their mascot, when they were the hosts in different years.
马克：有道理，可英国和德国在不同的年份举办时都用了一只狮子来做吉祥物。
Jingjing: Was it the same lion?
京晶：是同一只狮子吗？
Mark: I've reached the limit of my knowledge there. But can you guess what colors the wolf is wearing for FIFA 2018?
马克：那我就不知道了。可是你能猜猜今年FIFA的狼穿什么颜色衣服吗？
Jingjing: That's an easy one: white, blue and red—just like the Russian flag.
京晶：当然知道了，是白色，蓝色和红色，跟俄罗斯的国旗一样颜色。
Mark: You got it! Look out for the wolf with those colors and a pair of orange sunglasses.
马克：对了！特别留意一下带有那些颜色的狼和橙色的太阳镜。

New words: 习语短语

sponsors 赞助
companies that support a major event, such as a football tournament
stands for 代表
the words in an abbreviation (MIT stands for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
headquarters 总部
the main office of a company or organization
Go figure 奇怪了
said when something is a little weird and can't be explained (I got up earlier than usual this morning but was late for work. Go figure.)
mascot 吉祥物
an animal, person or thing that,used as a symbol for a sports team or another group, to bring good luck

Dialogue 2

Mark: Jingjing, what's that you're humming?
马克：京晶，你在哼什么呀？
Jingjing: Oh, that's the FIFA song. It got stuck in my head.
京晶：噢，那是FIFA的主题曲。已经在我脑海里单曲循环了。
Mark: FIFA has an official song? I haven't heard it yet.
马克：FIFA 有主题曲的吗？我还没听到过呢。
Jingjing: Well, you know, every four years there's a song recorded especially for FIFA.
京晶：对的，每四年就有一首专门为FIFA录制的歌曲。
Mark: I remember four years ago, there was one by Pitbull, featuring Jennifer Lopez.
马克：我记得四年前就有一首是皮普保罗唱的，还有珍妮弗·洛佩兹客串。
Jingjing: Don't hum it! That'll get stuck in my head too!
京晶：别再哼哼了！一会儿又一直在我脑海里单曲循环了！
Mark: OK, OK. So tell me, who sings the song for 2018?
马克：好好。那告诉我，2018年的主题曲是谁唱的？
Jingjing: Nicky Jam. Will Smith and Era Istrefi sing bits of it.
京晶：尼基·詹姆，还有史密斯和Era Istrefi也唱了一点。
Mark: I know the first two, but who is the third artist?
马克：我知道前两位，可是第三个是谁？
Jingjing: She's from Kosovo, and has been internationally famous for a couple years now. She sings in Albanian and English.
京晶：她是来自科索沃的歌手，近几年来一直在国际上享有盛名。她用阿尔巴尼亚语和英语唱歌。
Mark: I'll have to look up her music.
马克：我得找点她的音乐来听听。
Jingjing: She sounds like a cross between Nelly Furtado and Rihanna.
京晶：她的声音有妮莉·费塔朵和蕾哈娜的特点。
Mark: That'd sound great. I like both of those artists.
马克：听起来很不错。 我很喜欢这两位歌手呢。
Jingjing: And her songs are pretty well produced. They pop, but sound original.
京晶：而且她的歌曲制作得相当好。流行味足，但听起来又很原创。
Mark: OK, sold. I'll be looking for free streams of her songs next time I go online.
马克：行！那我下次上网时找一下她的免费歌曲来听听吧。
Jingjing: Hey, how did we stray so far from football. We still haven't talked about all those handsome, sweaty guys.
京晶：嘿，怎么话题已经偏离足球那么远了呢。我们还没有谈到那些帅气的，大汗淋漓的球员呢！
Mark: Um, maybe next time.
马克：可能下次吧！
Jingjing: Haha, OK.
京晶：哈哈，好！

New words: 习语短语