China’s sports assembly line is designed for one purpose: churning out gold medals for the glory of the nation. Silver and bronze barely count.
中国的体育生产线只为一个目标而设计：为国家荣誉制造大量金牌。银牌、铜牌基本不算数。
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为国争光，这样一个朴素的情感，在《纽约时报》作者的笔下可以“阴间”至此：
At the weight lifting national team’s training center in Beijing, a giant Chinese flag covers an entire wall, reminding lifters that their duty is to nation, not to self.
China relies on a system that puts tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools. Many of the young athletes are funneled into less prominent sports that Beijing hopes to dominate.
It’s no coincidence that nearly 75 percent of the Olympic golds China has won since 1984 are in just six sports: table tennis, shooting, diving, badminton, gymnastics and weight lifting.
在东京奥运会前夕，国家体育总局局长苟仲文公布了我国体育代表团的参赛目标，其中一条是“确保在金牌榜和奖牌榜上保持在第一序列”，而作者引用时，直接把原话改成“坚决确保金牌榜第一”（“We must resolutely ensure we are first in gold medals”）：
“We must resolutely ensure we are first in gold medals,” Gou Zhongwen, the head of the Chinese Olympic Committee, said on the eve of the Tokyo Olympics.
… it is more a representation as to how the US has utterly lost its mind when it comes to China, across all of its media and political classes. America is increasingly insecure and stung to the point that mainstream commentators can’t even bear China doing well at sports.
Is it any wonder why people in China have come to increasingly despise foreign reporting? The big three US newspapers in particular – the NYT, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal – spew an endless daily conveyor belt of anti-Chinese stories which seek to nitpick, discredit, and attack every single development within the country, often on utterly ridiculous premises.
