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摘要:本文为大家带来一则双语新闻,内容是关于美国大选的形势分析,唐纳德特朗普(Donald Trump)可能最终赢得共和党总统候选人资格,然而也很可能会惨败给希拉里。详情见本文。

But not having policies is also Mr Trump’s greatest strength. It makes him nimble. He candiscard whatever Republican orthodoxy he felt obliged to adopt and pivot to Mrs Clinton’sleft in a general election. If you want to take on Wall Street — something the country is itchingto do — vote for the man who has continually outwitted the banks in his bankruptcy-riddencareer. While Mrs Clinton was giving $225,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley— transcripts that she still refuses to release, by the way — Mr Trump was imposing haircutson his creditors. Mr Trump may be a “con artist”, as Mr Rubio is belatedly pointing out. But heknows how to make a deal. He also knows what America’s middle classes want to hear. MrTrump will protect their entitlements, scale down costly overseas military bases and revamptrade deals with China, Mexico and others.

但是,没有具体政策也是特朗普最大的优势。这让他表现得灵活。他可以抛弃自己认为根据共和党传统立场必须接受的任何观点,并在大选中偏向希拉里的左派观点。如果你想拿华尔街开刀——全美国都渴望这么做——那么就把票投给这个在从事破产业务的职业生涯中智胜银行的人吧。尽管希拉里曾收取22.5万美元在高盛(Goldman Sachs)和摩根士丹利(Morgan Stanley)发表演讲——顺便说一下,她仍拒对外界公开演讲稿——而特朗普则迫使他的债权人进行资产减记。正如鲁比奥(说得太晚了)指出的那样,特朗普或许是一个“行骗高手”。但他知道怎样做成交易。他也知道美国的中产阶层想听什么。特朗普将保护他们的权利,减少代价高昂的海外军事基地,并修改与中国和墨西哥等国的贸易协议。

The chances are that Mr Trump would still lose in a landslide to Mrs Clinton. Over the comingdays and weeks, Republican-affiliated funding groups will air advertisements that feature thevictims of Trump Inc. These will include people who paid $35,000 to study real estatemanagement at Trump University only to discover it was not what it was cracked up to be. Theywill feature Americans who tried to find work at Mr Trump’s luxury Mar-a-Lago resort inFlorida only to discover the jobs had been taken by imported Romanians. They will also includevictims of Mr Trump’s ruthless use of eminent domain — the power of the state to compelpeople to sell land needed for public projects — to evict people unlucky enough to be livingnear one of his casinos.

特朗普可能惨败给希拉里。在未来的几天和几周里,支持共和党的募资团体将发布以“特朗普公司”(TrumpInc)受害者为主题的广告。其中包括那些支付3.5万美元在“特朗普大学”(Trump University)学习不动产管理的人——他们最终发现教学水平根本达不到该校自吹自擂的水平。广告中还将出现那些尝试在特朗普在佛罗里达州的马阿拉歌俱乐部(Mar-a-Lago)度假胜地找份工作的人——他们最终发现工作岗位都给了外来的俄罗斯人。也将出现特朗普鲁莽使用征地权的受害者——不幸的是,他们居住的地方距离特朗普所经营的俱乐部太近了。征地权是指州政府为建设公共工程而强迫民众卖地的权力。

You can bet that white victims will feature prominently. Look at how Mr Trump treats the littleguy, they will say. His campaign is a fraud.

你可以断定,白人受害者将是这些广告中的重要角色。他们将说,看看特朗普是怎样对待这个“小家伙”的。他的竞选充满欺骗。

All of which may be true. But they are almost certainly too late to stop Mr Trump’s hostiletakeover of the Republican party. Mrs Clinton, on the other hand, has plenty of time to acquaintvoters with Mr Trump’s biography before the general election. Do not expect her to holdback. She will mercilessly expose his thin grasp of policy. He does not even know what a“nuclear triad” is for goodness sake. He believes global warming is a hoax dreamt up by Chinato con America into shutting down its manufacturing. He thinks that Mexico will pay for a wallto keep Mexicans out.

所有这一切或许是真的。但是,他们要阻止特朗普“敌意收购”共和党,几乎注定是太迟了。另一方面,在大选之前,希拉里有足够的时间让选民了解特朗普的生平。不要指望她会有所保留。她将无情地暴露特朗普不懂政策的形象。天啊,他竟然连“三位一体核力量”都不知道。他认为,全球变暖是中国捏造的一个骗局,意在哄骗美国关闭自己的工厂。他觉得,墨西哥应该出钱造一面墙,把墨西哥人挡在美国外面。

When it boils down to it, most Americans would not want such a person in the White House —or so believe the best and the brightest. A Trump presidency is too preposterous to imagine,they say. They may be right on that. But so far in this cycle they have been wrong abouteverything else. Should we put faith in their judgment now?

总之,大多数美国人不会希望这样的人入主白宫——或者说,最优秀、最聪明的美国人是这么认为的。他们说,让特朗普当总统太荒谬了。他们在这一点上或许是对的。但在这个竞选周期中,迄今为止,他们在其他方面的看法都是错误的。那么,我们现在应该相信他们的判断吗?

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