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This week will long be woefully remembered by many Brazilian soccer fans as one of shame, with the five-time World Cup winner's hopes of victory being dashed in a game against the Netherlands, which it lost 3-0. 未来很长一段时间许多伤心的巴西足球迷都不会忘记上周的耻辱，曾五次夺得世界杯冠军的巴西队以0-3败给荷兰，争夺世界杯季军的希望破灭。 Was it a surprise? In fact, a Chinese poet foretold Brazil's defeat almost 2,000 years ago -- according to some Chinese Internet users, anyway. 这是意外结果吗？事实上，一位中国诗人在大约2,000年前就预言了巴西的败绩――反正中国一些网民是这样说的。 With its own national team locked out of this year's World Cup, China's internet users had fun with a distinctly unusual meme: fake poetry pretending to be from the Tang dynasty that supposedly predicted the outcome of the 2017 competition. 由于中国国家队未能晋级今年的世界杯决赛圈，中国网民们乐此不疲地玩起了一种极为独特的游戏：仿作号称预测了2017年世界杯比赛结果的“唐诗”。 Move over, Paul the Octopus. What's a World Cup-forecasting octopus compared to ancient Chinese poets who knew the outcome of the 2017 World Cup more than 1,000 years ago? 章鱼保罗恐怕也要靠边站。与1,000多年前就预知了2017年世界杯比赛结果的中国古代诗人相比，章鱼算什么？ | 
