原文地址：http://time-blog.com/china_blog/
直接点说是“同一个防毒面具”。
几个月前我就有心无意的在这些专栏上使用这一标题了。今天《华尔街日报》刊登了一则令人捧腹的报道说奥运会运动员真的打算在北京使用防毒面具了。
美国三项全能运动员Jarrod Shoemaker 有一个决定要做出，即他是否应该在下月将在北京举行的奥运会开幕式戴上口罩？
然而，中国官方坚持“北京臭名昭著的空气八月份将会比以往清新”的说法却使得这一精巧的装置显得有些多余。由于担心北京的污染问题，美国奥委会正在给将参加奥运会的运动员发放一种秘密研制的高科技口罩。如果运动员戴了这种口罩，他们可能会面临羞辱东道主的风险，这就使是否戴口罩成了一个难题。
“我很可能会戴的”，26岁的Shoemaker先生说。他打算在北京期间，只要没有比赛参加他就几乎会随时都戴上口罩，“至于我是否被允许戴口罩那是另外一回事。”
尽管戴口罩在今天并不是那么普遍，但是为了保护自己的肺部免受他们国家严重的沙尘和污染的侵害，中国人已经戴了多年的口罩。而外国人在本次夏季奥运会期间，甚至在向全球数十亿观众直播的奥运会开幕式上戴着口罩，这也是另外一回事了。
以下是这则报道全文的连接：
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121659379072468809.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone
注意报道中有这句话：“但是戴口罩将意味着东道主大失面子……”。
如果我是一名世界级运动选手，但我不得不呼吸他们称之为空气的毒气，我才不会担心那些可怜兮兮的中国东道主们如何没面子呢。我更关心的是我的肺。
英文原文如下：
July 21, 2008 7:14
One World, One Dream, One Gas Mask...
Posted by Bill Powell
Literally, one gas mask.
I began using this headline for these postings months ago with tongue firmlyplanted in cheek. Now comes today's Wall Street Journal with this hilariouspiece about Olympic athletes who are LITERALLY planning to wear gas masks in Beijing.
U.S. triathlete Jarrod Shoemaker has a decision to make at the openingceremony of the Olympics next month in Beijing:Should he strap on a mask? Chinese officials insist the notorious Beijing air will be cleaner by August, makingsuch contraptions unnecessary. Concerned about the pollution, the U.S. OlympicCommittee is distributing a high-tech mask, developed in secrecy, to its morethan 600 Olympians. If athletes deploy it, they risk insulting the hosts. Thenthere's the geek factor.
"I probably will want to wear it," says the 26-year-old Mr.Shoemaker, who plans to have his mask on nearly all the time he's in Beijing when notcompeting. "Whether I will be allowed to is a different issue."
Though the practice is less common today, Chinese for years have wornmasks to protect their lungs from the country's heavy dust and pollution. Butforeigners wearing them during the Games this summer -- particularly at theopening ceremony broadcast to billions of television viewers around the world?That's a different matter.
Notethat the piece carries the requisite "but wearing the masks would mean aloss of face for the hosts..." sentence.
If I'm a world class athlete who has to go breathe the poison they call air in Beijing, I'm not worriedabout the poor wittle Chinese hosts losing face. I'm concerned about my lungs. l
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