美国文化脱口秀 第329期:美国老百姓很傻很单纯?

 最近很多听众让我们说说特朗普、为什么那么多美国人支持他？今天，我们就带来美国老百姓的访谈，解释自己为何支持他。

关键词：

Presidential election year: 总统大选年

Donald Trump¹ is the Republican party's front runner: 特朗普是共和党内选情领先的候选人

Candidate: 候选人、参选人

Voters:选民

特朗普是谁？

He's a rich real estate developer from New York: 他是美国的地产大亨

He inherited a lot of money from his dad: 他从爸爸那儿继承了很多钱

He has run many different businesses, some successful, others have gone under: 自己做过很多生意，有些成功、也有很多失败

To go under: 破产、倒闭

To file for bankruptcy²: 申请破产

真人秀明星，会吹牛

Loud mouth: 大嘴巴、会吹牛

He's full of it/full of sh*t: 说的都是没道理的话

He has made a lot of anti-immigrant, anti-China comments: 特朗普发表了很多反移民、反华的言论

谁支持特朗普？

Many Trump supporters are rednecks:很多特朗普的支持者是土包子、下巴老

Hillbilly: 土包子

Conservative: 保守的

Close-minded:思想闭塞的

我为什么支持特朗普？

He speaks the truth when he talks about immigration, border control. He doesn't care what people think: 他说的都是实话，他谈到移民、边境控管，他不在乎别人怎么看

He's unchoreographed: 他不装、不是精心设计的

I like his roughness and little Reaganesque: 我喜欢他的粗旷、有里根的气质

He's not a politician: 他不是政客

He's not gonna be bought off: 他不会被人收买（因为他已经很有钱了）

美国老百姓很傻很单纯?

他最了解名间疾苦

He may be a billionaire, but he's like one of us: 他虽然是亿万富翁，但他就像我们老百姓一样

Besides the money issue, he's still in tune³ with what everybody is wanting: 除了他很有钱，他跟我们老百姓想的都是合拍的

When he referred to some immigrants as rapists, did that bother you or did you ever notice it?

他说一些移民是强奸犯的时候，你们觉得有问题吗？还是根本没注意？

No, it didn't bother me：没有，我不觉得这有什么问题

他那么会做生意，一定也会管理国家

He said he's gonna put a wall down on the Southern border, that's the common sense thing to do: 他说会在我们南方的边境造一座墙，我觉得理应这样做，这是常识

I knew he was a wealthy successful man. I remember asking my mother if I could write him a letter and ask him how he made his money so that I could do it too: 我很早就知道他是个有钱、成功的人。我记得那时候问我妈，我能给他写封信，问他怎么赚钱吗？这样我也能赚钱

Even as a young kid, the word "Trump" meant success to me: 当我还是个孩子时，Trump对我来说就代表成功

He's a billionaire. How can I begrudge⁴ him on that? He worked hard to get there: 他是个亿万富翁，但我为什么要嫉恨他？他是通过自己的努力成功的

美国也有很多人讨厌特朗普

Voters: 选民

They vote in the election: 在大选时投票

Many Trump supporters look up to him and his success: 很多特朗普支持者很敬佩他的成功

But many say Trump isn't as successful as he claims:当然也有很多人觉得他根本没自己吹的那么成功

He brags and exaggerates: 他都是吹牛、夸大的

BS'ing (bull shitting): 吹牛、信口开河

I think some of Trump's supporters reasons are pathetic: 我觉得特朗普支持者说的理由都很可悲

I don't even think Trump believes in the crap he says 我根本不觉得特朗普相信他自己说的话

He's just saying it to get the constituency:他这样说就是为了得到这派选民的支持

To rally behind someone: 支持某人

白人民粹

I think Trump is very manipulative: 我觉得特朗普很会操纵人

Trump has tapped into many people's anger: 他利用了很多老百姓的怨气

Especially the blue-collar, lower middle class people who lost their jobs to globalization and immigration: 特别是底层蓝领，他们很多人因为全球化、移民涌入美国而失业

They blame China and Mexicans for their condition: 他们把自己的境况都怪在中国、墨西哥人身上

Looking for a scapegoat:找替罪羔羊

Trump stands for White populism: 特朗普就是在玩白人民粹政治

White power: 白人势力

Racist:种族歧视的

Intolerant: 排外的

Fascist: 法西斯主义者

The Republican Party has pushed many of its supporters to the far right of politics of White populism: 共和党近几年也在把支持者推到越来越右翼的白人民粹路线

They created their own monster in Donald Trump: 他们自己制造出了特朗普这个怪物

They made their own bed: 他们自食其果

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• 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。

2 bankruptcy   

n.破产；无偿付能力

参考例句：

• You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
• His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。

3 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

4 begrudge   

vt.吝啬，羡慕

参考例句：

• I begrudge spending so much money on train fares.我舍不得把这么多钱花在火车票上。
• We should not begrudge our neighbour's richness.我们不应该嫉妒邻人的富有。