2014世界盃英語作文

The World Cup

The animal oracle predictions for the World Cup have begun, with host nation Brazil getting a vote of confidence from its chosen turtle tipster.

By making a patriotic choice of food, loggerhead turtle Big Head predicted Tuesday that the host nation will beat Croatia in the opening game of the World Cup on Thursday.

Big Head is Brazil’s answer to Germany’s Paul the Octopus, who started the psychic animal craze during the 2010 World Cup and spawned a slew of imitations around the world.

At the Praia do Forte turtle sanctuary north of Salvador, the 25-year-old male sea turtle was given the choice between eating a fish hung from a Brazilian flag or a Croatian flag.

After attempting to eat the fish hung from a football indicating a draw, Big Head chose the one representing Brazil.

The small crowd of onlookers cheered in appreciation of Big Head’s choice.

世界盃動物預言帝的神預測又要開始啦!海龜預言帝預測東道主巴西將取得勝利。

週二工作人員把食物掛在不同國家的國旗下，用赤蠵龜“大頭”挑選食物的方式預測比賽結果。“大頭”的預測表明，主辦國巴西將在週四和克羅地亞的世界盃揭幕戰中勝出。

2010年南非世界盃期間，德國的章魚保羅開啓了世界盃戰況動物神預測的熱潮，隨後世界各地都競相模仿。今年，巴西請海龜“大頭”出馬，擔任本屆世界盃的預言帝。

普拉亞多海灘位於巴西港市薩爾瓦多北部，這裏是25歲的'海龜“大頭” 對本屆世界盃進行預測的地方。工作人員在巴西國旗和克羅地亞國旗下分別放了一條魚，讓“大頭”來選擇。

起先“大頭”在代表平局的足球下的魚那裏猶豫了一下，隨後選擇了代表巴西的那條。

“大頭”的選擇贏得了在場人的讚賞和歡呼。

世界盃(The World Cup )

The World Cup is held once every four years. This year, the World Cup matches will be held in South Africa.

The whole tournament will take one month. This year, it will start from June 11 and the final match will be held on July 11.

There will be 32 nations participating in the World Cup. If I go there, I can watch 64 matches in total.

世界盃是每四年舉行一次。今年世界盃足球賽將在南非舉行。

整個賽事將需要一個月。今年，首場賽事會在6月11日舉行，最後一場決賽將於 7月11日舉行。

將有32個國家參加世界盃。如果我去那裏，我可以觀看總共64場比賽。

請叫我Fuleco(Please call me Fuleco)

Brazil’s 2014 FIFA World Cup mascot, a blue and yellow officially has a name. Following an online vote, the armadillo was baptized on Sunday as "Fuleco", a word which organisers say transmits a message of environmental awareness.

The name of the three-banded armadillo, an endangered species indigenous to Brazil, was announced on national television. The name Fuleco was chosen by 48 percent of the 1.7 million votes, trumping the two other options, Zuzeco and Amijubi. While nature’s version is light brown in color, FIFA’s armadillo is yellow with green eyes and a blue shell - the colours of the Brazilian flag - and will be holding a football. Three-banded armadillos live mainly in Brazil’s arid northeast and are threatened by destruction to their natural environment. They are unusual among armadillos in that they can roll up into a ball to defend themselves from predators.

2014年巴西世界盃的吉祥物已經確定爲一隻的三色犰狳(又稱：鎧鼠)。犰狳在巴西是瀕危動物。此前，巴西世界盃組委會在其國內開展了爲吉祥物徵名的活動，總共170萬人參與了此次活動並從三個候選名字“Amijubi”、“Fuleco”和“Zuzeco”中選出Fuleco確定爲2014年世界盃吉祥物的官方名稱。

Fuleco是Futebol(足球)+Ecologia(生態)的合成詞，吉祥物本身和名字將環保理念融入了足球，體現了這屆世界盃注重環保的理念。