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Stephen Curry, NBA players struggle to spell Mavs’ Dirk Nowitzki’s surname
Stephen Curry以及一些NBA球員拼不出獨行俠Dirk Nowitzki的姓
In the pantheon of difficult to spell foreign last names, Dirk Nowitzki’s is
surely at the bottom. Not only is the Dallas Mavericks legend’s surname just
eight letters and bereft of Cyrillic, but it’s also generally pronounced as
it’s spelled. Nonetheless, spelling his surname proved difficult for a bevy
of NBA players and Gregg Popovich who was asked to do the seemingly
pedestrian task only to struggle quite a bit (including his own Mavs
teammates as well as close friend Pau Gasol) with some even failing entirely
like with Stephen Curry.
在比較難拼的外國人姓氏清單裡，Dirk Nowitzki要算是簡單的了。不僅這獨行俠傳奇人物
的姓只有八個字母，它也不是西裡爾字母(用於某些斯拉夫語言)，而且它念起來就跟它拼
起來的樣子差不多。然而，當一些NBA球員以及馬刺波總像是路邊臨時被抓到，問他們能不
能拼出他的姓氏時，似乎是一個困難的任務，甚至他的隊友及好友Pau Gasol都掙扎了一下
才拼的出，有些人像是Stephen Curry是根本不行。
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This will probably be the last we’ll see the Nowitzki name in a while as he
officially announced his retirement after Tuesday night’s grand send-off at
home. The 7-foot German has languished most of the season due to offseason
surgery and looked to be a shell of his former self, missing wide-open
jumpers and playing sparingly before experiencing a short renaissance after a
strong All-Star Weekend performance.
在星期二晚上主場正式宣布退休暨歡送儀式後，大概要有一段時間才會有可能再次看到
Nowitzki這個姓。7呎的德國球星，本季因為在休賽季的手術讓他打的顛簸，打得不像以前
一樣，有空檔的時候投不進，上場的時間都很短，在明星賽亮眼的表現後有短暫回春一陣
子。
The entire NBA was already preparing for the inevitability of Nowitzki
calling it a career based on how they have seen him play and whether they
guessed correctly or just forced the European into the decision is up for
debate considering that Nowitzki’s decision to hang it up was only decided
just a few days ago.
整個NBA界似乎準備好Nowitzki要宣布退休，不管是基於他打球的狀態，或者大家只是猜
想，抑或大家像是強迫"歐洲司機"退休，這都還值得討論，但是Nowitzki要高掛球鞋這決
定是幾天前才做的。
Where Nowitzki goes from here is a mystery – but if it’s on TV, Curry and
his peers are fortunate that there are title cards.
Nowitzki之後的發展目前還未可知