西蒙和加芬克尔和伯尼•桑德斯

AS IT IS 2016-01-22 Simon and Garfunkel and Bernie Sanders 西蒙和加芬克尔和伯尼•桑德斯

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In less than two weeks, the state of Iowa will vote on its choices for the 2016 Democratic and Republican presidential nominees¹. The Iowa Caucus² begins a months-long process of selecting presidential candidates.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is one of the Democratic presidential candidates. On Thursday, he released a new ad targeting Iowa voters. The 60-second ad is set to a famous song from the 1960s: the folk rock band Simon and Garfunkel’s “America.”

The video shows images of Iowa farms, coffee shops, families at kitchen tables, and thousands of Sanders' supporters. The ad is designed to show Sanders’ growing crowd of supporters made up of “everyday Americans.”

“Simon and Garfunkel” trended worldwide on Twitter and on Facebook. “Simon Garfunkel and Bernie Sanders” was also a Top-10 Google search on Thursday.

On social media, people praised Sanders for his choice of avoiding attacking other candidates and instead “focusing on voters,” as one New York Times headline said.

As Simon and Garfunkel’s famous line, “They’ve all come to look for America,” plays, so, too, does video footage of Sanders' supporters.

Twitter user @Hilary_Crisan tweeted: “This is what political ads should look like. No intimidating³. No trash-talking. Just Simon and Garfunkel.”

Bernie Sanders himself tweeted: “ This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump⁴. This campaign is about you.”

Words in This Story

trash talk - n (informal). insulting speech intended to intimidate⁵ or humiliate⁶ someone, especially an opponent?

endorsement⁷ - n. a public or official statement of support or approval

1 nominees   

n.被提名者，被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
• A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网

2 caucus   

n.秘密会议；干部会议；v.（参加）干部开会议

参考例句：

• This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
• It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。

3 intimidating   

vt.恐吓，威胁( intimidate的现在分词)

参考例句：

• They were accused of intimidating people into voting for them. 他们被控胁迫选民投他们的票。
• This kind of questioning can be very intimidating to children. 这种问话的方式可能让孩子们非常害怕。

4 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。

5 intimidate   

vt.恐吓，威胁

参考例句：

• You think you can intimidate people into doing what you want?你以为你可以威胁别人做任何事？
• The first strike capacity is intended mainly to intimidate adversary.第一次攻击的武力主要是用来吓阻敌方的。

6 humiliate   

v.使羞辱，使丢脸[同]disgrace

参考例句：

• What right had they to bully and humiliate people like this?凭什么把人欺侮到这个地步呢？
• They pay me empty compliments which only humiliate me.他们虚情假意地恭维我，这只能使我感到羞辱。

7 endorsement   

n.背书；赞成，认可，担保；签(注)，批注

参考例句：

• We are happy to give the product our full endorsement.我们很高兴给予该产品完全的认可。
• His presidential campaign won endorsement from several celebrities.他参加总统竞选得到一些社会名流的支持。