时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

sleaze


gridlock


在竞选过程中,候选人进行互相攻击似乎是常事,只是在手法上有所不同而已。今天我们先要给大家介绍一个和候选人互相攻击有关的常用词汇:sleaze。Sleaze这个字听起来就不太悦耳,它的意思也很不好。Sleaze指的是"下流的人",或是"低级的东西"。可是今年的美国总统竞选中,sleaze是指"攻击对方的私生活"。也就是,竞选一方散布有关竞选对手私生活中的丑闻,以此在选民中毁坏对方的名声,他们散布的丑闻有的可能是属实的,但是也有一些是完全捏造的。下面请听一个例句:


例句-1: On the campaign trail today the Republicans and the Democrats 1 both hurled 2 charges accusing the other side of using sleaze despite promises by Bush and Clinton to stop such tactics.


这是说:今天在竞选活动中共和党和民主党互相攻击,指责对方使用人身攻击的手法,尽管布什和克林顿都做了保证不再这样做。


下面请听一位候选人是怎么说的:


例句-2: I don't intend to use sleaze against my opponent although there are plenty of things in his personal life that the voters ought to know about.


他说:我并不想利用竞选对手的丑闻来攻击他,但是他的私生活中也确实有很多东西选民应该知道的。


在七十年代,纽约有一次发生严重的交通堵塞事故。当时汽车无法前进,排成几里长的长蛇阵,所有主要街道的路口全部都被堵死了。人们把这一现象叫做:gridlock。Gridlock这个字在有些字典里还查不到。现在,美国人用gridlock这个字来指美国政界存在的那种两派僵持不下,任何问题无法得以进展的现象。出现这种现象的主要原因是布什总统是共和党人,而负责制定法律的国会却在民主党控制之下。在过去四年内,布什提出的大多数提案国会都没有通过。而国会提出的提案,很多都被布什否决了。民主党在国会虽占多数,但还没有到足以推翻总统否决的三分之二多数。这个局面使得许多重要问题无法进展,造成了gridlock的现象。请听下面这个例句:


例句-3: Both the Republicans and the Democrats agree that the big problem with the government in Washington is political gridlock. But they certainly don't agree who is to blame.


这句话的意思是:共和党人和民主党人都同意,美国政府的一个大问题就是在政治上的僵局。至于究竟哪一方应该对这个局面负责,双方意见却完全不同。


这种现象不仅仅是美国联邦政府的问题,连州一级政府也同样存在类似情况。下面就是一个例子:


例句-4: Our State is just like Washington--we have a Republican Governor and a Democratic legislature. So we usually have gridlock on new programs because one side won't approve what the other side does.


这个人说:我们州和华盛顿一样,我们的州长是共和党的,而立法机构却在民主党控制下。往往一方不同意另一方的计划,所以我们经常会在新的项目上出现僵局。


今天我们给大家介绍了sleaze。Sleaze是攻击竞选对手私生活的手法。Gridlock是在政治上处于僵局的现象。



n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • 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》
v.猛投,用力掷( hurl的过去式和过去分词 );大声叫骂
  • He hurled a brick through the window. 他往窗户里扔了块砖。
  • The strong wind hurled down bits of the roof. 大风把屋顶的瓦片刮了下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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a lot of money
a tuna
All is fish that comes to his net.
analysis of resource trends
apparent angle of internal friction
arabicas
arithmetical average
available pressure head in the consumer
bacteremic shock
Balangia
basic radical
brake catch bracket
Brousseval
bullet-pointed
Bullsport
caliper disk brake
candle wax
chapinha
chaprasis
cirect-inductive coupling
comparison postmortem
compensating excitation
crunching numbers
current limit reactor
cybermoney
daughterfuckers
fantasticality
Fossa vesicae biliaris
genus spartiums
glash
ground oak
handshape
haplosporidias
heal war wounds
hetero-ion
induced-current dipole moment
International Accounting Standards Committee
investigative help
kick-start manufacturing
kyu
Law Of Supply
Least said and soonest mended
limate
linolin
liquor sample
long-nose
lymph hearts
Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius
Merioneth
micaslate
middle family of cloud
mirabalan
monarcho-fascism
monetary effect
motor-mounted bicycle
Moussafoyo
NAS
niddk
nostalgias
ogsinogenous
palliasse
planar hinge
pointer (in programming language)
polar pyrenoid
polyzoaria
preflight
product water
public hearings
Radoszewice
rational atomic weight
Redmondian
reflector plate
retire into oneself
rezovo r.(rezvaya r.)
Robenzidene
rotating head
Saint Fiacre's disease
salt bloom
scrunch dry
sea dragons
Seebeck effect
segmented genome
self pollinate
self-diagnoses
shold
small-circulations
stanzas
synthesis in theory
tailoring procedure
tang length
the hell you say
theomania
thermal equivalent intensity
tons per man-hour
trifoliate orange
two-wedge bearing
unjellied
voting trust certificate
wall mounting vertical electric water heater
Web editor
wintams
worsted-type fabric