CNN 2011-10-23

 Each Republican candidate is trying to convince voters that he or she should be the party's presidential nominee¹. On Tuesday, seven of them faced off during a debate in Los Vegas. You haven't heard about debates among Democrats² because president Obama is expected to get his party's nomination³, and the Republican candidates, they want to stand out. They're taking part in these debates and getting ready for primary season which starts earlier next year. Nevada holds one of the nation's first primaries, and it hosted this week's debate. Taxes, illegal immigration, the economy, healthcare, all of those came up. And things got tense between the candidates when they took aim at each other's plans. Jim Coster wraps up the event.I'm speaking ...

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Time for you to get ..

You get 30 seconds, this is the way the rules work here. Is that I get 60 seconds?

Well, no, but American people wants the truth.

And you get, and you get 30 seconds response.

It was a wild west shootout on the Las Vegas strip, and at time, it felt like Rick Perry's last stand with an urgent strategy that take down Mitt⁴ Romney.

You hired illegals in your home, and you knew for it about it for a year. And the idea that you stand here before us and talk about your're strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy⁵.

Mitt Romney wasn't laughing for long.

Are you just going to keep talking? These are a tough couple of debates for Rick.

Civil discourse⁶ was out the window, this was first GOP debate to get personal.

We hired a lawn, a lawn company to mow⁷ our lawn. And they had illegal immigrants that were working there. You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking. And I suggest that if you want to become president of the United States, you got to let both people speak.

Unlike past debates, the night was also Romney's first real test as a front runner as the candidates took aim at his healthcare plan in Massachusetts. Rick S. pointed⁸ out some of Romney's own advisers⁹ help draft president Obama's healthcare law.

You just don't have credibility, Mitt, when it comes to repealing¹⁰ Obama care.

Your plan was the basis for Obama care. Your consultants¹¹ helped Obama craft Obama care.

At issue, New G. says is the individual mandate¹² in both Romney care and Obama care. 

That is a lot of big government behind Romney care, not as much as Obama care. But a heck of a lot more than your campaign is admitting.

Romney responded he got the idea from G.

Actually, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you, you did support an individual mandate.

Yes, sir.

Rising Republicans Star Herman Kein also found himself on the defensive¹³ over his 999 plan. Independent studies have found the the plan's individual, business and national sales taxes all set at 9% would raise taxes on millions of Americans.

Herman, I love you, brother, but let me take something, you don't have to have a big analysis to figure this thing out. It's not going to fly.

Romney pointed out the new national sales tax would be combined with existing state sales taxes.

Will the people in Nevada not have to pay Nevada sales tax and in addition pay the 9% tax?

Governor Romney, you're doing the same thing that they are doing, you're mixing apples and oranges.

I'm gonna to be getting a bushel basket that has apples and oranges in it because I'm gonna to pay both taxes.

For Perry, it was a night to take campaign full of lemons and make lemonade, giving Republicans of bitter taste of more combative¹⁴ campaign to come.

1 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

2 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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》

3 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

4 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

5 hypocrisy   

n.伪善，虚伪

参考例句：

• He railed against hypocrisy and greed.他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。
• He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。

6 discourse   

n.论文，演说；谈话；话语；vi.讲述，著述

参考例句：

• We'll discourse on the subject tonight.我们今晚要谈论这个问题。
• He fell into discourse with the customers who were drinking at the counter.他和站在柜台旁的酒客谈了起来。

7 mow   

v.割（草、麦等），扫射，皱眉；n.草堆，谷物堆

参考例句：

• He hired a man to mow the lawn.他雇人割草。
• We shall have to mow down the tall grass in the big field.我们得把大田里的高草割掉。

8 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

9 advisers   

顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )； （指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
• She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。

10 repealing   

撤销，废除( repeal的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• In addition, repealing the alternative minimum tax would also help. 此外，废除替代性最低税也会有所帮助。
• Repealing the investment tax credit. 取消投资税款扣除。

11 consultants   

顾问( consultant的名词复数 )； 高级顾问医生，会诊医生

参考例句：

• a firm of management consultants 管理咨询公司
• There're many consultants in hospital. 医院里有很多会诊医生。

12 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

13 defensive   

adj.防御的；防卫的；防守的

参考例句：

• Their questions about the money put her on the defensive.他们问到钱的问题，使她警觉起来。
• The Government hastily organized defensive measures against the raids.政府急忙布置了防卫措施抵御空袭。

14 combative   

adj.好战的；好斗的

参考例句：

• Mr. Obama has recently adopted a more combative tone.奥巴马总统近来采取了一种更有战斗性的语调。
• She believes that women are at least as combative as are.她相信女性至少和男性一样好斗。