PBS高端访谈:共和党总统竞选候选人联合起来抗议伊朗协议

 　　GWEN IFILL: Presidential politics came to Capitol Hill today, as Republican candidates joined with lawmakers to protest the Iran nuclear deal.

　　Political director Lisa Desjardins was there.

　　SEN. TED¹ CRUZ, Republican Presidential Candidate: God bless the United States of America.

　　LISA DESJARDINS: Republican presidential hopefuls and rivals Donald Trump² and Ted Cruz joined forces to slam the nuclear deal with Iran.

　　SEN. TED CRUZ: Let's rise up and tell every elected official in Washington, no more talk, no more show votes. Get it done. Stop this deal!

　　LISA DESJARDINS: Thousands gathered on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol to hear the speeches, many using umbrellas for shade in the 90-degree Washington heat.

　　WOMAN: If this deal goes through, I'm really scared for our country.

　　FRED GORDON, Rally attendee: I don't like the Iran deal. And I think it's going to hurt us in the long run.

　　LISA DESJARDINS: The Texas senator organized the event, along with Tea Party supporters, but the star of the show was clear.

　　DONALD TRUMP, Republican Presidential Candidate: Never, ever, ever in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently³ negotiated as our deal in Iran. And I mean never.

　　LISA DESJARDINS: Hours earlier, inside the Capitol, Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed much of the opposition⁴ as irrelevant⁵.

　　JOHN KERRY, Secretary of State: I believe that the people who count are the 42 senators who have made up their minds. That's the count that matters right now. And if Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and Dick Cheney want to be the face of the opposition, that's their choice.

　　LISA DESJARDINS: The 42 senators are Democrats⁶ who support the deal and could block any Republican move to disapprove⁷ it. With that in mind, Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz sought to pressure Republicans to move on.

　　JOHN KERRY: We hope that the Senate would move rapidly to do the business of our country, not of a party, but the business of our nation.

　　LISA DESJARDINS: But all the words and all the drama inside the U.S. Capitol today likely will not change the legislative⁸ fate of the Iran deal. President Obama has more than enough votes for it to survive in the U.S. Senate.

　　But the rally outside and other words today may indicate the real future of the Iran deal, as a hot issue for 2016. Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton laid out her views in a Washington speech. She acknowledged that the Iran deal is not perfect, but maintained it's the only way to keep Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.

　　HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Democratic Presidential Candidate: Either we move forward on the path of diplomacy⁹ and seize this chance to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon, or we turn down a more dangerous path, leading to a far less certain and riskier¹⁰ future.

　　LISA DESJARDINS: And on the Senate floor, her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders compared critics of the deal to those who voted to go war with Iraq in 2003.

　　SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, Democratic Presidential Candidate: Unfortunately, these individuals have learned nothing from the results of that disastrous¹¹ policy and how it destabilized that entire region.

　　LISA DESJARDINS: The Iran deal seems certain to figure again in the next Republican presidential debate. That's a week from now. The deadline for Congress to vote is the next day.

　　Lisa Desjardins, PBS NewsHour, Washington.

1 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 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。

3 incompetently   

adv.无能力地

参考例句：

• He did the job rather incompetently. 这项工作他做的相当不好。 来自互联网
• When the Republicans have stuck by their principles, they have done so incompetently. 当共和党忠于其原则时，他们是如此无能。 来自互联网

4 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

5 irrelevant   

adj.不恰当的，无关系的，不相干的

参考例句：

• That is completely irrelevant to the subject under discussion.这跟讨论的主题完全不相关。
• A question about arithmetic is irrelevant in a music lesson.在音乐课上，一个数学的问题是风马牛不相及的。

6 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》

7 disapprove   

v.不赞成，不同意，不批准

参考例句：

• I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。
• She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员，但她的父母不赞成。

8 legislative   

n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的

参考例句：

• Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
• Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。

9 diplomacy   

n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕

参考例句：

• The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
• This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。

10 riskier   

冒险的，危险的( risky的比较级 )

参考例句：

• Now they are starting to demand higher returns on riskier assets. 而今他们开始在风险更高的资产上要求更高的回报。
• The problem with that: RIM's business is getting riskier every quarter. 不过问题也随之而来：RIM面临的业务风险正逐季增大。

11 disastrous   

adj.灾难性的，造成灾害的；极坏的，很糟的

参考例句：

• The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
• Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨，血本无归。