1、中英双语阅读素材：日本中英双语阅读素材：日本“咬金市长咬金市长”道歉道歉 8 月 4 日，日本垒球运动员藤希友在取得金牌后到户籍所在地名古屋市政府办公厅向市 长河村隆之报告这一喜讯。在交谈中，河村隆之希望他可以戴一下金牌。东京体育消息 称，这本来是一件让人高兴的事情，但是突然河村隆之摘下口罩咬了一口金牌。 Japan mayor apologizes for biting athletes gold medal TOKYO (AP) A Japanese mayor apologized Thursday for biting the Olympic gold medal of a softb
2、all player who had paid a courtesy visit after Japan beat the United States in the final. Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura had praised pitcher Miu Goto during the Aug. 4 visit, but his eyes were glued to her medal. He asked her to put it around his neck. Kawamura then pulled down his face mask and bit
3、into it. “Im really sorry that I hurt the treasure of the gold medalist,” Kawamura told reporters Thursday. The mayor said the medal was undamaged, though he offered to pay for the cost of a new one. Goto, however, has accepted the International Olympic Committees offer of a replacement, according t
4、o Japanese media reports. The medal bite has become a staple of Olympic photo-ops but for the winners themselves, not others. The scene broadcast on television prompted thousands of complaints to city hall. Some Olympians said they treat their medals as treasures and that it was outrageous for Kawam
5、ura to bite one. “I would cry if that happened to me,” Naohisa Takato, who won gold for Japan in judo, said in a tweet. “I handle my own gold medal so gently not to scratch it.” Yuki Ota, a silver-medal winning fencer, said the mayors action was disrespectful to athletes and was a bad idea for COVID
6、-19 measures. Goto reportedly considered keeping the original but eventually accepted the IOC offer of a replacement. 8 月 4 日接见日本垒球运动员后藤希友时擅自咬运动员金牌的名古屋市长道歉了。 据报道，这位市长在接受采访时向运动员表达了“发自内心的歉意”。他说：“我深刻 认识到，我的所作所为有失名古屋市长的身份，是极不合适的。我让后藤希友选手本人 和众多相关人士感到不愉快，给大家添了很多麻烦，我发自内心地向大家致以诚挚的歉 意。” 报道称，在“咬金牌事件”发生后，这位名古屋市长遭到来自社会各界的众多批评，网 络上揶揄他的段子也层出不穷。
