美國人當(dāng)選“世界最酷民族”

The world still thinks Americans are "coolest": poll

They may be witnessing their global superpower influence decline in the face of challenges from other emerging players on the world stage, but Americans have been voted the world's "coolest nationality" in an international poll.

面對世界舞臺上其他新興成員的挑戰(zhàn),，或許美國人發(fā)現(xiàn)自己作為世界超級大國的影響力日益減弱。但是在一項國際調(diào)查中,，美國人依然被評為世界上“最酷的民族”。

Social networking site Badoo.com (www.badoo.com) asked 30,000 people across 15 countries to name the coolest nationality and also found that the Spanish were considered the coolest Europeans, Brazilians the coolest Latin Americans and Belgians the globe's least cool nationality.

社交網(wǎng)站Badoo調(diào)查了來自15個國家的3萬人,，以評選出最酷的民族,。調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，西班牙人被認為是最酷的歐洲人,，巴西人是最酷的拉丁美洲人,，比利時人則是全球最不酷的民族。

"We hear a lot in the media about anti-Americanism," says Lloyd Price, Badoo's Director of Marketing. "But we sometimes forget how many people across the world consider Americans seriously cool."

Badoo的市場銷售總監(jiān)羅伊德?普萊斯說：“我們在媒體上經(jīng)常聽到一些反美主義言論,，但是有時候我們會忘記世界上還有多少人依然覺得美國人很酷,。”

Of course, not all Americans are cool, far from it. Some like Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp and Quentin Tarantino are way cooler than others.

當(dāng)然，不是所有的美國人都酷,，事實遠非如此,。有些美國人，像Snoop Dogg,、 Lady Gaga,、塞繆爾?杰克遜,、強尼?戴普和昆汀?塔倫蒂諾比其他美國人要酷得多。

Americans, however, are the dudes who invented cool and who still embody it in many fields from music to movies and TV to technology.

但是,，美國人是發(fā)明“酷”這個詞的民族,，現(xiàn)在他們?nèi)匀辉谠S多領(lǐng)域使用著這個詞，不管是音樂,、電影,、電視還是科技領(lǐng)域。

"America," says Price, "boasts the world's coolest leader, Obama; the coolest rappers, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg; and the coolest man in technology, Steve Jobs of Apple, the man who even made geeks cool."

普萊斯說：“美國自稱擁有全世界最酷的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人——奧巴馬,，最酷的說唱歌手——杰斯和Snoop Dogg,，最酷的科技界人士——蘋果公司的史蒂夫?喬布斯，喬布斯甚至讓科學(xué)怪人們都變得酷起來了,。”

Brazilians are ranked the second coolest nationality in the Badoo poll and the coolest Latin Americans, ahead of Mexicans and Argentinians. The Spanish, in third place, are the coolest Europeans.

在Badoo的調(diào)查中,，巴西人在最酷民族中排行第二，同時也是最酷的拉丁美洲人,，領(lǐng)先于墨西哥人和阿根廷人,。排行第三的西班牙人是最酷的歐洲人。

The French are voted cooler than the British, and Canadians cooler than the Belgians. This may come as a relief for Canadians, who are sometimes viewed as chronically uncool.

投票顯示,，法國人比英國人酷,，加拿大人比比利時人酷。這也許對于加拿大人來說是個寬慰,，因為在某些人看來,，加拿大人一直都不酷。

Or, as Michael Ignatieff, the Canadian politician, once put it: "Paris, Texas stands as a metaphor for broken dreams; Paris, Saskatchewan just sounds ridiculous."

或許,，就像加拿大政界人士邁克爾?伊格納季耶夫曾經(jīng)說過的：“巴黎和德克薩斯組合在一起就像破碎的夢的象征,，而巴黎和薩斯喀徹溫（加拿大省名）放在一起聽起來簡直就是可笑。”

THE 10 COOLEST NATIONALITIES

十大“最酷”民族 

1. Americans 美國人

2. Brazilians 巴西人

3. Spanish 西班牙人

4. Italians 意大利人

5. French 法國人

6. British 英國人

7. Dutch 荷蘭人

8. Mexicans 墨西哥人

9. Argentinians 阿根廷人

10. Russians  俄羅斯人

FIVE LEAST COOLEST NATIONALITIES

最“不酷”的五個民族

1. Belgians 比利時人

2. Poles 波蘭人

3. Turks 土耳其人

4. Canadians 加拿大人

5. Germans 德國人