But, when teams lose, these stereotypical virtues are damned with equal conviction as characteristic defects: German lack of imagination, Italian fear of attack, Dutch selfishness, the absence of national feeling among ethnic minorities in France, and so on.
但是如果球队输球，这些一成不变的美德就会成为民族固有缺陷的证据：德国的缺乏想象力，意大利对于进攻的畏惧，荷兰的自私，法国少数族裔间欠缺民族情绪等等。