1. A soccer-mad lion gets to grips with the game at Johannesburg Zoo - showing that football fever has taken over South Africa, the Daily Mail reported. 据英国《每日邮报》报道，足球热潮席卷南非，就连约翰内斯堡动物园内一头雄狮也对这项运动十分痴狂。
2. The decision was made “with the input of all the various offices around the world, ” he added, which include Madrid, Munich and Rome — located in three soccer-mad nations, it should be noted. Robert说这项决策是“全球各个办事处共同讨论后做出的”，值得一提的是，这些办事处中包括马德里、慕尼黑、罗马，它们都是身处“我为球狂”的国度。
3. South Africans are sports-mad, with soccer the most popular, especially among blacks, and cricket and rugby also followed passionately, predominantly by whites. 南非是酷爱体育之国，足球爱好者众多，其中特别是黑人居多。板球与橄榄球同样充满热度，爱好者主要是白人。
4. Mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania. 对足球狂热的父母容易在春天怀孕，因为那是一年中足球狂热的高峰期。
5. I'm going to watch the soccer game replay. My parents won't let me watch in the early morning. I'm so mad at them. 我要看足球重播。我爸妈不让我大清早起来看。我还在生他们的气呢。
