PBS高端访谈:特朗普的万亿基础设施投资计划缺乏具体细节

 　　President Trump¹ spent a good part of last week touting² his campaign pledge to spend a trillion dollars to rebuild the nation's infrastructure³.

　　But other than talking generally about public-private partnerships⁴ for those investments, privatizing air traffic control,

　　and dismantling⁵ regulations that can delay construction, the White House has yet to put forward a detailed⁶ plan.

　　Washington Post reporter Mike DeBonis is covering the issue and joins me now from Washington.

　　Infrastructure takes a long time to building and a long time to plan. So, what's at stake here?

　　As you mentioned, you know, these projects are in the pipeline⁷ for years, in some cases, a decade or more.

　　And what's at stake is a certainty about a path forward and the longer there is uncertainty⁸, the harder it is to plan these projects.

　　And what we've seen in a lot of cases is that the Trump administration is created more uncertainty particularly seen this in the realm of public transit⁹,

　　but there's also world (ph) projects, port projects, things like that, where they made moves particularly in their budget that have a lot of people scratching their heads.

　　So, give me an example. I mean, give me an example of the city or municipality that's been working on something, or thinking about building something waiting for the funds?

　　Sure. We have — example are transit projects. We — there's a federal transit administration program that typically spends four or five billion dollars a year building transit projects across the country.

　　These aren't just big cities and Democratic states. A lot of these are in red states, places like Arizona, Indiana, North Carolina.

　　They've, you know, been in the process over a course of months and years expecting to get a federal contribution of these projects.

　　The Trump budget that was released proposes zeroing out one of these transit accounts that would halt some of these projects in their tracks,

　　at the very least, it would force localities to come up with tens of millions of more dollars that they weren't expecting to.

　　And so, what's the likelihood of something like this,

　　let's say a plan is put forth¹⁰ and gets through Congress, because members of Congress are very proud about what sport sort of dollars they can get in into their communities.

　　Oftentimes, states are the ones that actually own the infrastructure on the ground.

　　Well, obviously, Congress ultimately spends the money. And there is buy in, by and large, among local representatives, in places where these projects are happening.

　　That said, you have a, you know, major faction¹¹ of the Republican Party that wants to reduce discretionary non-defense spending to low levels and this politically and for many of them on principle, it's a good place to find cuts.

　　Politically, you know, these are, you know, by and large theirs the perception these are projects that are going to benefit Democrats¹².

　　They're typically even when they're in red states, they're in Democratic pockets and big cities. Policy-wise, there's a feeling among deficit¹³ hawks¹⁴ in Republican Party,

　　but simply speaking, that projects like this should be funded locally, that the federal government shouldn't have a role, that these are not projects of national import.

　　So, you know, you're right to say that ultimately Congress is going to have the say and probably not going to zero out these projects entirely¹⁵

　　but there is going to be a huge amounts of pressure on projects like this to, you know, sort of be on the chopping block.

　　All right. The Washington Post's Mike DeBonis — thanks so much.

　　Thanks, Hari. undefined

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 touting   

v.兜售( tout的现在分词 )；招揽；侦查；探听赛马情报

参考例句：

• He's been touting his novel around publishers for years. 他几年来一直到处找出版商兜售自己的小说。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Technology industry leaders are touting cars as a hot area for growth. 科技产业领袖吹捧为增长热点地区的汽车。 来自互联网

3 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

4 partnerships   

n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 )；合伙人身份；合作关系

参考例句：

• Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句

5 dismantling   

（枪支）分解

参考例句：

• The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。
• The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。

6 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

7 pipeline   

n.管道，管线

参考例句：

• The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
• A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。

8 uncertainty   

n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物

参考例句：

• Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
• After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。

9 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

10 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

11 faction   

n.宗派，小集团；派别；派系斗争

参考例句：

• Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
• I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境，在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。

12 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》

13 deficit   

n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。

14 hawks   

鹰( hawk的名词复数 )； 鹰派人物，主战派人物

参考例句：

• Two hawks were hover ing overhead. 两只鹰在头顶盘旋。
• Both hawks and doves have expanded their conditions for ending the war. 鹰派和鸽派都充分阐明了各自的停战条件。

15 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。