Musician Rpbbie Williams has explained what he meant with his middle finger gesture during his performance at the 2018 World Cup opening ceremony.
在2018年的世界杯開幕式上音樂人羅比·威廉姆斯解釋了他為什么要做豎中指的動作。

The singer was performing a number of his hits at the football tournament in Moscow last week when he was seen raising his middle finger to the camera and audience.
上周在莫斯科的舉辦的世界杯開幕式上，該歌手表演了一系列的他的熱門單曲，在表演中他向著攝影機和觀眾豎起了他的中指。

Earlier today, the 44-year-old singer appeared on This Morning alongside host Phillip Schofield to address his performance saying, "At these things, it's really important not to cause an international incident. And do you know what? I managed it."
今天早些時候，這名44歲的歌手，出席了由菲利普斯科菲爾德主持的《今早》，他說：“在這種關(guān)鍵的時候，最好不要出什么國際性的幺蛾子，不過你知道么，我還是做了。”

Williams went onto explain that his divisive gesture was meant to signal a "one minute to kick-off."
威廉姆隨即解釋到他那個具有爭議的手勢，其實是一個“還有一分鐘比賽就要開始”的信號。

“I was under a lot of pressure because there was one minute left and I didn't know how I was going to do it in half a minute," he said. "So I just did a one-minute countdown."
“我當(dāng)時很緊張，因為還有一分鐘就要開始了，我不知道該怎么做，于是我在還有30秒的時候就做了這個動作，”他說?！八灾皇且粋€1分鐘的倒計時動作?！?/div>

Schofield prodded at Williams' comments asking him why he claims to want to join The X Factor - a live TV show - when his actions are so spontaneous.
斯科特菲爾德還問，如果他總是這么隨意，他為什么還會想?yún)⒓?，《X音素》這樣的直播節(jié)目。

It has been reported that Williams may be joining The X Factor alongside his wife AydaField, but has not admitted he'll be joining the show.
據(jù)報道，威廉姆將和他的妻子阿依達費爾德一起參加《X音素》不過他本人還沒有承認是否參加。

（翻譯：林潯鷗）