美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-01-26

 A big meeting happening today in Utah, two men who we think wanna be president are having a meeting, a private meeting. I am talking about Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, and Mitt¹ Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts too, who has run for president a couple of times, you might remember. 

 

So what on earth are they going to talk about? Joined by Reihan Salam who comes from the right side of the Iowa, Shall we say! Here is Sally, column political commentator², Sally Kohn. Sally, thank you so much for being with us, and Reihan Salam you as well. 

 

Reihan I suppose, you know, it was Jeb Bush who asked for the meeting, so I will put this in his shoes. If you were Jeb Bush and you walking into a meeting with Mitt Romney and you know Mitt Romney wants to be the president and you know that you want to be the president. What do you say dude?

 

“I just say, look, you and I care about the same thing pretty much. We present the same wing of the party. If you get in and you are gonna squeeze me out and some wack dude is gonna win. That’s what he would say. I personally think, I’d love see both of them go at it so that some candidate who is better than both could come in the middle. I would love see them just blow enormous amounts of money from their donor³ friends and just bash each other all day long, but sadly, they are smart enough to realize that would be a battle for both of them.” 

 

‘So let me put that in that way, what would Mitt say to Jeb? Something in reverse.’

 

“That’s a tricky⁴ question, because I wonder which one is more ambivalent⁵. The question is one of them is a bit more on the fence. So the other one is gonna say, ‘Look!’ the one who is really committed, is gonna say ‘I am gonna make this really expensive, I am in this, period! This is not a joke for me! I am dead serious!’ The question is which one is more like that? And I just don’t know the answer.”

 

“Sally Kohn, scale of 1 to 10 on the awkward scale, 10 being the most awkward, where would this rank?”

 

“Really, really awkward! I mean, they planned this meeting before Mitt start dangling⁶ the possible ways he might be in the race. You know, I think two things are interesting here. One is which Jeb Bush and especially which Mitt Romney might even consider running? They are both starting to make more progressive populist over church. Mitt Romney recently said he would make his campaign all about fighting against poverty as opposed to attacking the 47%. You know, he recently said he is now thinking climate change is an issue again when he said he didn’t before he did and all that. So that’s the first thing. They are gonna hammer out …

1 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

2 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。

3 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

4 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。

5 ambivalent   

adj.含糊不定的；(态度等)矛盾的

参考例句：

• She remained ambivalent about her marriage.她对于自己的婚事仍然拿不定主意。
• Although she professed fear of the Russians,she seemed to have ambivalent feelings toward Philby himself.虽然她承认害怕俄国人，然而她似乎对菲尔比本人有一种矛盾的感情。

6 dangling   

悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口

参考例句：

• The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果，那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。
• The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上，摇晃着他们的双腿。