新闻周刊:谁赢得了第五场民主党辩论?分析赢家，输家和亮点(3)

And Harris pulled off a similar move when asked about the stock photo error on Buttigieg's site that she quipped about just days ago. "The mayor has made apologies for that," she said, before pivoting¹ to focus on black voters.

当被问及几天前她在Buttigieg网站上调侃的股票照片错误时，哈里斯也做出了类似的举动。“市长为此道歉，”她说，然后转向关注黑人选民。

Buttigieg hit all his talking points, kept his cool, and even managed to squeeze in a line that Forbes had ranked him as "literally² the least wealthy person on this stage."

Buttigieg 抓住了他所有的谈话要点，保持冷静，甚至成功地挤出一句话，福布斯将他列为“这个舞台上最不富有的人”。

Electability, Schmelectability

候选资格，

Biden couldn't even get out his first sentence without stammering³, "who is most likely to win the presidency⁴ in the first place?" Polls say he's still in a good position, but the fact he could hardly get the statement out shows that candidate may not be him. Biden continued to play his Obama card--"I come out of the black community.. In terms of my support and cite his vast experience in Washington, which may not play as well with many voters as Buttigieg's selling point of not having vast (or any) experience in Washington.

Biden 甚至连第一句话都结结巴巴地说不出来，“首先，谁最有可能赢得总统大选?”民意调查显示，他仍然处于有利地位，但他几乎无法发表声明的事实表明，这位候选人可能不是他。拜登继续打出他的奥巴马牌—“我来自黑人社区…”说到我对他的支持，并引用他在华盛顿的丰富经验，这可能不会像Buttigieg在华盛顿没有丰富经验的卖点那样吸引很多选民。

Minutes later, Biden's first gaffe⁵ appeared in talking about his health care plan that would "not make people choose. Allow people to choose, I should say."

几分钟后，Biden 的第一次失言出现在谈论他的医疗保健计划时，他说这个计划“不会让人们做出选择”。我应该说，允许人们选择。”

Later on, when talking about violence against women, he said that politicians and society need to "keep punching at it, keep punching at it." Not a great choice of words. He said men should never raise a hand to a woman "except in self-defense, which rarely happens."

后来，当谈到针对妇女的暴力行为时，他说，政治家和社会需要“继续打击它，继续打击它”。用词不当。他说，男人永远不应该向女人举起手来，“除非出于自卫，这种情况很少发生。”

These sorts of gaffes⁶ don't seem to have mattered in the past to Biden voters. Still, when he started the campaign the nomination⁷ was his to lose--and he seems up to the task of losing it.

对于 Biden 的选民来说，这类失误在过去似乎并不重要。尽管如此，当他开始竞选时，他的提名是注定要失败的——而且他似乎能够承担失败的任务。

There was another Biden gaffe when he spoke⁸ of getting the support of "the only black woman to be elected to the Senate." There was a pause as Senator Cory Booker looked across the stage and Harris could be heard yelling, "No, I'm standing⁹ right here."

Biden在谈到获得“唯一当选参议员的黑人女性”的支持时，又一次失言。一阵沉默，参议员科里·布克望着舞台的另一边，可以听到哈里斯大喊，“不，我就站在这里。”

Moments earlier, Booker redirected a question thrown his way, saying, "I'd like to return to the issue of black voters, I've been one my entire life." The audience loved it, nearly as much as when Booker said he thought Biden "might have been high" when the former veep said he opposed legalizing marijuana.

就在几分钟前，布克重新提出了一个问题，他说，“我想回到黑人选民的问题上来，我一生都是黑人选民。”观众们都很喜欢，就像 Booker 所言，当前副总统Biden 说他反对大麻合法化时，他认为Biden“可能很兴奋”一样。

In other news, Warren had a plan, Bernie Sanders called for political revolution and Tom Steyer talked about climate change. As the field whittles¹⁰ down and the caucuses¹¹ get closer, the candidates actually seem to be enjoying themselves more, which made for a more entertaining debate.

在其他新闻中，Warren 有一个计划，Bernie Sanders 呼吁政治革命，Tom Steyer 谈论气候变化。随着竞选活动的减少和党团会议的临近，候选人实际上似乎更享受他们自己，这使得辩论更有趣。

The next Democratic debate is December 19.

下一次民主党辩论将于12月19日举行。

1 pivoting   

n.绕轴旋转，绕公共法线旋转v.（似）在枢轴上转动( pivot的现在分词 )；把…放在枢轴上；以…为核心，围绕（主旨）展开

参考例句：

• Here is a neat YouTube video showing the Gyro's pivoting mechanism. 这里是一个整洁的YouTube视频显示陀螺仪的旋转机制。 来自互联网
• Dart pivoting is widely used in the gannent pattern design. 省道转移的原理在服装纸样设计中应用十分广泛。 来自互联网

2 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

3 stammering   

v.结巴地说出( stammer的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He betrayed nervousness by stammering. 他说话结结巴巴说明他胆子小。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• \"Why,\" he said, actually stammering, \"how do you do?\" “哎呀，\"他说，真的有些结结巴巴，\"你好啊？” 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

4 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。

5 gaffe   

n.（社交上令人不快的）失言，失态

参考例句：

• I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.我不清楚我犯了什么错误。
• He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend.他在上周末的会议上出了洋相，狼狈不堪。

6 gaffes   

n.失礼，出丑( gaffe的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The presidential candidate made three mistakes, or gaffes, during his speech. 校长候选人在演讲中出了三次错，或失态。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
• When the microphones were on, gaffes gushed from his lips. 而当电话响起，他却口无遮拦，屡屡失言。 来自互联网

7 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。

8 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。

9 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

10 whittles   

v.切，削（木头），使逐渐变小( whittle的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

11 caucuses   

n.（政党决定政策或推举竞选人的）核心成员( caucus的名词复数 )；决策干部；决策委员会；秘密会议

参考例句：

• Republican caucuses will happen in about 410 towns across Maine. 共和党团会议选举将在缅因州的约410个城镇进行。 来自互联网