BBC News:FIFA对巴西世界杯有信心

President of football's world governing body FIFA Sepp Blatter has said that he expected the upcoming World Cup in Brazil to be a success. He was speaking in Sao Paulo. Katy Watson reports from Sao Paulo.

世界足球管理机构国际足球联盟主席赛普·布拉特曾说他期待即将到来的巴西世界杯获得成功。他当时是在圣保罗发表这一言论的。凯蒂·沃森在圣保罗报道。

At a press conference in Sao Paulo on Thursday, FIFA insisted that the World Cup would be a success.

周四在圣保罗举办的新闻发布会上，国际足球联盟坚持认为这次的世界杯会获得成功。

We have listened to all the reports. It's not up to me now to comment on that. But I can tell you, listening to the report, we are confident, we and FIFA, we are confident.

我们听取所有的报道，这些并不是我现在说什么就能改变的。但是我想告诉你的是，听了这个报道你就会知道，我们都很有信心，我们和国际足球联盟都很有信心。

But even some of its executives couldn't avoid reality as they sat in traffic jams for hours trying to get across the city during the strike. Union leaders on Sao Paulo's metro system have asked for a double digit pay rise and better conditions. They deny it has anything to do with the World Cup and everything to do with needing higher salaries to keep pace with the inflation.

但是当一些国际足球联盟高管们在罢工期间通过这个城市时，遭遇了几个小时的堵车，他们也不得不面对这种现实。圣保罗的工会领导人们要求工资再增加两位数，还要求要有更好的工作条件。他们声称这次涨工资与世界杯无关，他们想要涨工资所做的一切都是为了适应通货膨胀。

The state-owned underground company was locked in negotiations with Union leaders on Thursday afternoon. And the government is under a huge amount of pressure. The only viable way for fans to reach Sao Paulo Stadium is on public transport. If that fails, it won't just be a huge inconvenience for visitors but a huge embarrassment for the government, too. Katy Watson, our reporter in Sao Paulo.

星期四下午，国有地铁公司一直致力于和工会进行谈判。政府压力很大。对于那些想赶着来圣保罗体育场观看比赛的足球迷们来说，唯一可行的办法就是公共交通。如果公共交通出现瘫痪，不仅会给游客带来极大的不便，还会使政府颜面尽失。我台记者凯蒂·沃森在圣保罗报道。

Now Eimear McBride took 6 months to write her first novel, 10 years to find a publisher, but she was rewarded this week when she won a top literary prize in London worth 50,000 dollars. Her book A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing tells us the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor. It's set in Ireland in the time of religious oppression and sexual abuse. Here is an extract.

艾米尔·麦克布莱德用了六个月写了她的第一本书，却用十年去找一个出版者，但是这周她在伦敦赢得了奖金高达50000美元的最高文学奖。她的书《女孩是半成品》讲述了一个青年女子与她哥哥的关系，以及她哥哥因童年所患脑瘤而产生的长期心理阴影的故事。故事发生在爱尔兰宗教压迫和性虐待时期。下面这段话就是摘录于这本书。

See here this party. It's a mad. I'd never been. I've only seen on top films.Yeah, absolutely it was a huge surprise and you know, a great honor, and you know, not something that I was expecting.

看看这个聚会，这太疯狂了，我从来都没有参加过这样的聚会。我只是在电影上看过这样的画面。是啊，你知道的这对于我来说绝对是一个巨大的惊喜，也是一种荣耀，这些都不是我能想到的。

And to win a prize with a book that you found such a difficulty in finding a publisher for.

书获奖了，但你却发现找一个出版商这么难。

Yeah, that's right. I mean, that's certainly felt like a vindication for me. You know, I wrote the book in 2004 in 6 months and then that it took me most of the next decade to find a publisher for it.

是啊，没错，这次获奖就是对我的证明，对我的肯定。2004年，我花了6个月写了这本书，但是却花费了我十年的时间去找一位愿意出版这本书的出版商。

You say vindicated, what do you think the problem was that publishers had with the book?

你说这是证明，那你认为出版商们为什么不愿意出版这本书呢?

Well, what they told me was that while they admired the writing, they found that the subject was interestingly dealt with, they didn't feel that the book fell into any kind of need, marketing niche.

出版商们告诉我他们很欣赏这本书，并且认为此书巧妙的写作手法使主题更加生动有趣，但是他们认为这本书不能满足市场需求。