译语翻译分享-为什么冠军都爱用牙咬金牌，检验质量？

为什么冠军都爱用牙咬金牌，检验质量？

Why do champions love to bite the gold medal with their teeth to test the quality?

东京奥运会已经结束了第一个比赛日，有9个体育代表团收获了金牌，中国体育代表团以3枚金牌1枚铜牌稳居金牌和奖牌第一位。细心的人们也许看到一个场景，获得女子重剑金牌的孙一文颁奖后轻咬金牌，事实上领奖后的金牌获得者大多数爱用牙咬金牌，尤其是拍照时，很少看到银牌和铜牌的获得者这么做。那么问题来了，为什么冠军们喜欢用牙咬金牌，难道是检验金牌的成色？

The Tokyo Olympics has ended its first day of competition. 9 sports delegations have won gold medals. The Chinese sports delegation ranked first in gold and medals with 3 gold medals and 1 bronze medal. Careful people may see a scene where Sun Yiwen, who won the women’s epee gold medal, bit the gold medal after the award. In fact, most of the gold medal winners after receiving the award like to bite the gold medal with their teeth, especially when taking pictures, rarely see the silver medal. And the bronze medalist did so. So the question is, why do champions like to bite the gold medal with their teeth? Is it to check the fineness of the gold medal?

其实这个疑问不仅存于我们中国观众心中，而是一个世界性的疑问。到底为什么冠军们会有这个举动，猜测最多的是说冠军们想这是检测金牌的成色，因为过去海盗或商人为了检验金币的真伪，就会用牙去咬，因为黄金是软金属，用牙咬会留下痕迹。然而，谁都知道，运动会尤其是奥运会金牌并不是纯金打造，更多是合金即93%是银，6%为铜，只有1%是金，牙咬后根本留不下痕迹，所以这个猜测显然站不住脚。

In fact, this question is not only in the hearts of our Chinese audience, but a worldwide question. In the end, why the champions have this behavior? The most guessed thing is that the champions think this is to test the fineness of gold medals. In the past, pirates or merchants used their teeth to check the authenticity of gold coins, because gold is a soft metal. Teeth bite will leave marks. However, everyone knows that the gold medals of the Games, especially the Olympic Games, are not made of pure gold. They are more of alloys, that is, 93% is silver, 6% is copper, and only 1% is gold. There is no trace left after teeth bite, so this guess is obvious. Untenable.

值得一提的是，奥运会金牌最初确实是用纯金制造，比如1904年、1908年和1912年的奥运会金牌就是纯金的。按理说那时人们对金币的概念更深刻，然而从影像和运动员们的记忆来看，并没有人在奥运会上去咬金牌，也应证了咬金牌不是为了检测黄金成色。

It is worth mentioning that the Olympic gold medals were originally made of pure gold. For example, the Olympic gold medals in 1904, 1908 and 1912 were pure gold. It stands to reason that people had a deeper conception of gold coins at that time. However, judging from the images and the memories of athletes, no one bit the gold medal in the Olympics, and it should be proved that biting the gold medal is not for testing the fineness of gold.

因为牙咬金牌这个动作更多出现在运动员拍照时，因此有说法是这主要是摄影师出于拍摄需要让运动员做的，有点类似说“茄子”的意思，也就是说牙咬金牌的创意是来自于摄影师。国际奥利匹克历史学家协会主席大卫在2012年曾表示，“(这个动作)它已经成为了摄影师们的一种迷恋。我认为摄影师们拍下奥运冠军咬奖牌的动作，是因为他们已经将其视为标志性动作，这种动作更有卖点。我不觉得运动员们自己会去做这种事。”

Because the action of biting the gold medal occurs more often when athletes take pictures, it is said that this is mainly done by the photographer for the purpose of shooting. It is a bit similar to saying "eggplant", which means that the idea of ​​biting the gold medal is From the photographer. David, the president of the International Association of Olympic Historians, said in 2012, “(This action) has become a fascination with photographers. I think photographers captured the Olympic champion’s medal-biting action because They have regarded it as an iconic action, which has a more selling point. I don’t think athletes will do it themselves."

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