If Zuma is true to his word, by 2014 - certainly by 2018 - South Africa could be a major player on a continent that, for all of its soccer talent, was a disappointing pushover in this World Cup.

如果祖玛将践行他的诺言，那么到2014年- - -或者2018年- - -南非将成为一个强队，如今尽管在非洲有很多足球人才，他们留给世界杯的却只是令人失望的失败。

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But think twice before you say or do anything rash-in the following, "incidents" of a general and a soccer player may remind you just when to shut your mouth.

但在发表武断言论或做出鲁莽行为之前，请你三思！在下文中，一位将军和一名足球运动员的遭遇将提醒你，不要忘了适时保持沉默。

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My cousin is a soccer player, he is a striker.

我的表弟是足球运动员，他是前锋。

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We also answer a question about a famous former soccer player.

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I was a soccer player and I played soccer there for the four years that I was at school.

我是个足球运动员，在大学的四年里一直踢足球。

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At first,he was not seen as a great soccer player.

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In a test-case ruling involving a Belgian soccer player, Jean-Marc Bosman, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg decided in December 1995 that the European Union's rules on the free movement of labour applied to sportsmen.

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Though science has been her passion since first starting a science club in the third grade, Brittany has managed to master other talents as well as a varsity soccer player and mentor to students in her community.

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He has recruited three retired athletes--an Olympic skater, a soccer player and a wrestler--to run for the legislature.

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