美国国家公共电台 NPR In Virginia, Both Parties Use Trump To Turn Out The Base
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台11月
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There's no such thing as an off year for voters in Virginia from politics. The state holds a gubernatorial election Tuesday. The race looks tight. The state's often seen as a political bellwether 1, and the stakes feel especially high this year following the 2016 presidential campaign. As NPR's Sarah McCammon reports, both major parties in Virginia wrestle 2 with internal divisions in a year that's all about turning out the base.
SARAH MCCAMMON, BYLINE 3: Republican Ed Gillespie's resume is arguably straight out of the D.C. swamp that President Trump 4 has promised to drain. He's a former Republican National Committee chairman, George W. Bush administration adviser 5 and lobbyist. His Democratic opponent, Lieutenant 7 Governor Ralph Northam has tried to paint Gillespie as a Washington politician out to benefit himself, in contrast with his own background as a pediatric neurologist. None of that bothers Trump supporter Laurie Posner who came to hear Gillespie speak this week.
LAURIE POSNER: Everything that Trump wants for America, Gillespie wants that, too.
MCCAMON: Posner is a retired 8 paramedic. She wore a black Make America Great Again hat to a Republican get out the vote event in Fredericksburg, Va. She says Gillespie is saying what she needs to hear about issues like immigration.
POSNER: He will follow the agenda of our president, and that's what we need.
MCCAMON: Gillespie has been working to energize 9 Trump supporters like Posner without turning off moderates by aligning 10 too closely with the president. He's run controversial ads focusing on crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. But he's never brought his own party's sitting president to Virginia to campaign for him. Onstage in Fredericksburg before a nearly all-white audience, Gillespie alluded 11 to the racial and identity politics that have popped up in the campaign.
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ED GILLESPIE: And I'm sure you've seen this vile 12, despicable ad that was running.
MCCAMON: That ad by an outside group, the Latino Victory Fund, depicted 13 children from racial and religious minorities running away from a pickup 14 truck with a Gillespie bumper 15 sticker. It was quickly pulled, and Gillespie criticized Northam for not disavowing it.
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GILLESPIE: But the lieutenant governor defended that ad and failed to disavow it. Is that the kind of leadership we need in Virginia right now?
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: No.
GILLESPIE: No, it is not.
MCCAMON: Meanwhile, Northam has also faced attacks from the left wing of the Democratic Party. This week, he told a Norfolk TV station he'd be willing to sign a bill banning sanctuary 16 cities for undocumented immigrants.
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RALPH NORTHAM: If that bill comes to my desk, Andy (ph), I sure will. I've always been opposed to sanctuary cities.
MCCAMON: The liberal group Democracy For America responded with a scathing 17 statement calling Northam's campaign disastrous 18 and racist 19. In an effort to shore up support with core voters, Northam has been campaigning with prominent black Democrats 20.
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NORTHAM: Are you all fired up?
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UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: Yeah.
NORTHAM: Ready to go?
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: Yeah.
MCCAMON: Northam borrowed President Obama's famous line while campaigning with New Jersey 21 Senator Cory Booker in the D.C. suburbs this week. He painted Virginia's governor's race as a referendum on Trump.
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NORTHAM: We cannot let what we saw in 2016 and now what we're watching in Washington, D.C. - we can't accept that as being the new normal. And I don't know about you, but I'm proud to be a Democrat 6.
MCCAMON: In this off-year campaign where turnout is low, both parties are making the race about President Trump.
Sarah McCammon, NPR News, Fredericksburg, Va.
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- University campuses are often the bellwether of change.大学校园往往引领变革的新潮。
- For decades the company was the bellwether of the British economy.几十年来，这家公司一直是英国经济的晴雨表。
- He taught his little brother how to wrestle.他教他小弟弟如何摔跤。
- We have to wrestle with difficulties.我们必须同困难作斗争。
- His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
- We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
- He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
- The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
- About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
- He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
- He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- It is used to energize the city.它的作用是为城市供给能量。
- This is a great way to energize yourself and give yourself more power!这种方法非常棒，可以激活你的能量，让你有更多的活力！
- In your remarks you alluded to a certain sinister design. 在你的谈话中，你提到了某个阴谋。
- She also alluded to her rival's past marital troubles. 她还影射了对手过去的婚姻问题。
- Who could have carried out such a vile attack?会是谁发起这么卑鄙的攻击呢？
- Her talk was full of vile curses.她的话里充满着恶毒的咒骂。
- Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
- They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。
- I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。
- The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
- This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
- There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
- Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。
- a scathing attack on the new management 针对新的管理层的猛烈抨击
- Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime. 她的演讲强烈指责了政府在犯罪问题上的表现。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
- Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨，血本无归。
- a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
- His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》