我常常遇上埃塞俄比亚司机，每逢此时，我们就会感叹埃塞俄比亚队在预选赛中被尼日利亚队淘汰，然后庆祝美国击败加纳，最后一致同意四年后 — — 顶多八年 — — 美国队将步入世界顶尖行列。
When my driver was Ethiopian, as often happened, we would commiserate over the national team’s defeat by Nigeria in a qualifying round, then celebrate the US defeat of Ghana, and end by agreeing that in four years, or certainly in eight, the US team would be among the world’s best.