PBS高端访谈:特朗普在寻求什么样的外交政策?

 　　HARI SREENIVASAN: Often, the people a president surrounds himself with says something about his goals as any policy statement.

　　President-elect Trump¹ is in the process of deciding who will fill critical national security and diplomatic posts. These decisions will shape the direction of his presidency² and the country.

　　For more on who's in the running for these jobs, and the reaction from allies and others overseas, I'm joined now by "NewsHour" chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner.

　　There are a lot of important national security jobs, foreign policy positions. What's the latest?

　　MARGARET WARNER: Well, the latest is, Hari, that to experienced foreign policy hands, the process looks chaotic³.

　　You have names being raised — for instance, let's take secretary of state. You have John Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador, very kind of aggressive, you would call a neoconservative. Then you have Senator Bob Corker, who is considered sort of middle of the road and conservative. And then you have Rudy Giuliani, of course, the former New York mayor.

　　A few other names have surfaced, Kelly Ayotte, Nikki Haley, the South Carolina governor. But what troubles those who are really observing this process is there seems to be no rhyme or reason. And what you have got are people who don't share the same views. Some don't share the views that Trump enunciated⁴ during the campaign.

　　Now, the people close to the Trump Organization say, look, we honestly didn't expect to win. So they didn't have a big structure set up, as Hillary Clinton did, with somebody like a former national security adviser⁵ in charge of this particular part of the transition.

　　But I think it is also keeping with the way he ran his campaign, which was kind of free form and competing centers of power. And so then, of course, it's also, finally, the first time he's really having a baptism by fire in managing this chaotic — or, I would say, diverse Republican coalition⁶.

　　So, you have John McCain lecturing him yesterday about don't get too close to Putin. You have Senator Rand Paul shooting bullets at both Bolton and Giuliani, saying we don't need a hothead in these jobs.

　　So I think that everybody will settle down once you have got these top jobs filled.

　　特朗普在寻求什么样的外交政策?

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: Meanwhile, President Obama overseas trying to reassure⁷ the E.U., different countries, that President Trump will honor his commitment to NATO. How do the Europeans see this?

　　MARGARET WARNER: One ambassador said to me, very reassuring⁸ words, but we want to hear them from president-elect Trump.

　　As you said, President Obama will be meeting with Chancellor⁹ Merkel tomorrow. They have private meetings before he goes in meetings with other NATO allies.

　　What concerns the Europeans deeply are two things that Donald Trump said during the campaign. One was, he questioned the whole relevance¹⁰ of the NATO alliance and in fact some of our alliances overseas, the burden that the United States pays to support them. And he actually suggested that maybe NATO wouldn't come to the rescue some of country if it hadn't been — under Article V if it hadn't been paying its full fair share, which is supposed to be 2 percent of GDP.

　　And so Wolfgang Ischinger, who used to be the German ambassador here — and I spoke¹¹ to Ambassador Ischinger late last night — and he said, these are really dangerous times for Europe. We have got the migrant crisis. We have got Britain leaving the E.U. We have got the rise of all these populist nationalist parties with some ugly aspects to them. And if we start to feel that the United States is not really our reliable partner, ally, and anchor, it's going to get worse, then dangerous.

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: And, finally, what about the relationship between president-elect Trump and Putin? How are Europeans concerned about this?

　　MARGARET WARNER: That's a big part of it, Hari.

　　There was actually an interesting little conference call yesterday with two former secretaries general of NATO. And I'm surprised they spoke so bluntly. There is concern that — it didn't go unnoticed that president-elect Trump called Vladimir Putin before he called some NATO leaders, and they are concerned that he will be open to cutting some separate deal with Putin, some sort of trade-off between Syria and the Ukraine, without getting into all the details.

　　And they said that would really be very, very dangerous. It would send the message that taking — you know, crossing borders and taking territory by force is OK.

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: Margaret Warner, thanks so much.

　　MARGARET WARNER: Thank you.

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 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

3 chaotic   

adj.混沌的，一片混乱的，一团糟的

参考例句：

• Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
• The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。

4 enunciated   

v.（清晰地）发音( enunciate的过去式和过去分词 )；确切地说明

参考例句：

• She enunciated each word slowly and carefully. 她每个字都念得又慢又仔细。
• His voice, cold and perfectly enunciated, switched them like a birch branch. 他的话口气冰冷，一字一板，有如给了他们劈面一鞭。 来自辞典例句

5 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• 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。

6 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

7 reassure   

v.使放心，使消除疑虑

参考例句：

• This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点，于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
• The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。

8 reassuring   

a.使人消除恐惧和疑虑的，使人放心的

参考例句：

• He gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. 他轻拍了一下她的肩膀让她放心。
• With a reassuring pat on her arm, he left. 他鼓励地拍了拍她的手臂就离开了。

9 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

10 relevance   

n.中肯，适当，关联，相关性

参考例句：

• Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles.政治家的私生活与他们的公众角色不相关。
• Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.她的想法与现代社会完全脱节。

11 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。