Indeed, the World Cup brought a kind of normalcy to South African life.

的确，世界杯给南非人的生活带来了一种正常状态。

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So drench yourself in the aroma of mocha coffee and drift away with your steaming cup. In it lie the simple pleasures of life.

那么，请沉醉在摩卡咖啡的幽幽香气中，让思绪随着蒸腾的热气游走吧！生活中的一些简单乐趣正在于此。

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There might not be people following me around as much, some of the paparazzi and the people that come to your door to speak to you about your personal life - some of them might be at the World Cup.

不会有那么多人总跟着我，比如有些狗仔队和到你住处跟你谈私生活的人——他们有些可能去世界杯了。

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But away from the usual images of the World Cup, another hidden life was taking place for those who followed the roadshow thousands of miles around Japan.

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There was no time for them to conjure the most unlikely of all equalisers, but their heroic display finally brought the World Cup to life and warmed the hearts of the crowd on a freezing night at Ellis Park.

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He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.

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