BERLIN –&nbsp;Rarely is a high-flying country brought back down to earth in a single night, but that is precisely what happened to Germany recently. In both football (soccer) and politics, the country had come to embody an unseemly mixture of arrogance and denial.
柏林— 已经腾飞的国家不会一夜回到解放前，但这正是德国最近所发生的事情。不管在足球方面还是政治方面，德国都陷入了不恰当的自大和否认的怪圈。德国自视为欧洲一切事务的准绳——从欧锦赛到欧盟，这纯属自欺欺人。