时代周刊:特朗普总统面临自己一手制造的一系列危机不断升级(7)

But Trump¹ is increasingly short of advisers³ to urge caution.

但特朗普身边越来越缺乏敦促他谨慎行事的顾问了。

Communications adviser² Hope Hicks, one of Trump’s closest confidants, left on March 29,

因为他最亲密的心腹之一、公关顾问霍普·希克斯已经于3月29日离开了，

while National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were all recently forced out.

而国家安全顾问麦克马斯特、国土安全顾问汤姆·博塞特和国务卿雷克斯·蒂勒森三人最近也都被迫辞职了。

Around the West Wing, the expectation is that Trump is far from done.

在白宫西翼，人们的预期是，特朗普还远不会停手。

Sessions, Rosenstein and White House chief of staff John Kelly are all on thin ice.

连塞申斯、罗森斯坦和白宫幕僚长凯利都如履薄冰了。

Trump blames Sessions and Rosenstein for his legal woes⁴.

因为特朗普将他的法律困境归咎于赛辛斯和罗森斯坦。

In Trump’s mind, had Sessions not recused himself from the inquiry⁵ into Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia—

在特朗普看来，如果赛辛斯没有回避对特朗普竞选团队与俄罗斯可能的联系的调查——

which was required by the Justice Department, since Sessions was a major voice inside the campaign—

但实际上塞申斯完全是应司法部的要求回避的，因为他是特朗普竞选团队的主要声音——

then Rosenstein could not have appointed Mueller.

罗森斯坦就不可能任命米勒负责那项调查。

Even Trump’s own aides acknowledge that the President fails to see how he made matters worse by firing Comey when the FBI director wouldn’t drop his own probe into Russia.

就连特朗普自己的助理都承认，总统没有意识到，FBI局长不放弃俄罗斯调查一事的情况下，是他解雇科米让事情变得更糟的。

In the wake of the Cohen raids, even Republican lawmakers had stark⁶ warnings for Trump.

科恩遭突袭后，就连共和党议员也对特朗普发出了严厉警告。

“It would be suicide” for Trump to fire Mueller, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley said.

爱荷华州参议员查克·格拉斯利说，特朗普解雇米勒“无异于自杀”。

On April 11, Grassley said the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to advance a bipartisan bill to protect Mueller if Trump attempts to fire him.

4月11日，格拉斯利表示，如果特朗普试图解雇米勒，参议院司法委员会就会推进一项两党法案来保护米勒。

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham tamped⁷ down the idea Trump is considering taking out Rosenstein:

南卡罗来纳州参议员林赛·格雷厄姆否定了特朗普考虑撤掉罗森斯坦的想法：

"I’m confident that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency⁸, and he’s not going to do that."

“我相信他要那么做了，他的总统任期也就要结束了，所以他不会那么做的。”

Since the night of Nov.8, 2016, Trump’s political and philosophical⁹ opponents have been publicly and repeatedly asking, How long can this last?

自2016年11月8日晚以来，特朗普的政治和哲学对手一直在公开、反复地问，这种情况能持续多久?

Those who have concluded “not much longer” have been vexed¹⁰ time after time.

那些得出的结论是“不会太久”的人已经一次又一次地失望了。

After all, this is a man who defied convention and criticism to achieve the highest office in the country,

毕竟，这是一个为了获得国家最高职位可以不顾传统和批评的人，

not to mention one who spent decades honing his abilities as a media provocateur.

更不用说他还是一个花了几十年时间磨练自己煽动媒体的能力的人。

Skilled as Trump has been at deploying¹¹ suspense¹², misdirection and invective¹³ to his advantage over the last 15 months,

尽管特朗普在过去15个月里善于利用悬念、误导和谩骂来达到自己的目的，

the Trump reality show appears closer than ever to colliding with reality itself.

但如今，特朗普的真人秀似乎比以往任何时候都更接近同现实本身发生冲突了。

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 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。

3 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。

4 woes   

困境( woe的名词复数 )； 悲伤； 我好苦哇； 某人就要倒霉

参考例句：

• Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
• She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。

5 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。

6 stark   

adj.荒凉的；严酷的；完全的；adv.完全地

参考例句：

• The young man is faced with a stark choice.这位年轻人面临严峻的抉择。
• He gave a stark denial to the rumor.他对谣言加以完全的否认。

7 tamped   

v.捣固( tamp的过去式和过去分词 )；填充；（用炮泥）封炮眼口；夯实

参考例句：

• The poets, once so praised, are tamped unceremoniously together in our textbooks, in one curt chapter. 那些名噪一时的诗人，在今天的教科书里，已被毫不客气地挤在一起，列为短短的一章。 来自辞典例句
• They tamped down the earth around the apple tree. 他们把苹果树周围的泥土夯实。 来自互联网

8 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。

9 philosophical   

adj.哲学家的，哲学上的，达观的

参考例句：

• The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
• She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。

10 vexed   

adj.争论不休的；（指问题等）棘手的；争论不休的问题；烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 )；使苦恼；使生气；详细讨论

参考例句：

• The conference spent days discussing the vexed question of border controls. 会议花了几天的时间讨论边境关卡这个难题。
• He was vexed at his failure. 他因失败而懊恼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

11 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

12 suspense   

n.（对可能发生的事）紧张感，担心，挂虑

参考例句：

• The suspense was unbearable.这样提心吊胆的状况实在叫人受不了。
• The director used ingenious devices to keep the audience in suspense.导演用巧妙手法引起观众的悬念。

13 invective   

n.痛骂，恶意抨击

参考例句：

• He retorted the invective on her.他用恶言讽刺还击她。
• His command of irony and invective was said to be very classic and lethal.据说他嬉笑怒骂的本领是极其杰出的，令人无法招架的。