PBS高端访谈:即使重要的几个州投票情况不佳 特朗普仍保持乐观

 　　JUDY WOODRUFF: Donald Trump¹ continues to drive division in the Republican Party, as new polls have him losing ground in states that will be key to victory.

　　We look at where the race stands now with Robert Costa. He's the national political reporter with The Washington Post.

　　Robert Costa, welcome back to the program.

　　First of all, we know that Reince Priebus, who is the chairman of the Republican Party, made a point of introducing Donald Trump today when he spoke² in Erie, Pennsylvania. But at the same time, we have been mentioning the polls are slipping for Mr. Trump. There has been a string of these controversial statements. How worried — or is this party worried?

　　即使重要的几个州投票情况不佳 特朗普仍保持乐观

　　ROBERT COSTA, The Washington Post: Judy, good to be with you.

　　The relationship between the party chairman and the GOP standard-bearer remains³ a pivotal one within the GOP, and my sources tell me that Priebus made a point today to travel from New York to Erie, Pennsylvania, to make sure he showcased his unity⁴ with Donald Trump, as some people at the party's upper levels are saying maybe it's time, because of these sliding poll numbers, to distance Republicans, especially in swing states, from Donald Trump.

　　Priebus said today in Erie that's not true, the party is not moving away from Trump, he's sticking with the nominee⁵.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: And so what sort of pressure, Robert, is there on the Republican Party, on the leadership of the party to either work with Donald Trump or to distance themselves from him?

　　ROBERT COSTA: At the RNC level, they're intertwined, the Trump campaign and RNC, when it comes to fund-raising. So, they have had a close relationship.

　　The tensions are really more raw when it comes to the congressional ranks. House Republicans have a 59-seat majority. Some members there are privately⁶ very edgy⁷, uncomfortable about what Trump could mean for them especially if they are in a swing district. And in the Senate, you have states like Pennsylvania where Trump was today, Mark Kirk in Illinois, Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire. They're facing very tough races this fall and how they align⁸ with Trump is becoming their key strategic decision.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: We also heard — we heard Donald Trump just himself acknowledge in the last day or so that he's having problems in some states, in some of these important swing states like Ohio, like Florida, but even in a reliably Republican state like Utah.

　　What is that telling you, somebody who's been covering politics for some time, and what does it say to Republicans who are watching this race so closely?

　　ROBERT COSTA: Utah is a particularly case.

　　You have a new presidential candidate, an independent conservative, Evan McMullin, come from Utah. Temperamentally, the Mormon population of Utah doesn't always fit with Donald Trump. They really like Donald Trump, according to most polls. Some evangelical communities, you see Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, she is gaining in a state like Georgia.

　　Trump is trying to adjust to a general election. He's been so rough and tumble for so long, throwing punches, that it turns some swing voters off. But according to my sources in the Trump campaign, Trump is adamant⁹ that he will not change, that he wants to continue to run a campaign from the gut¹⁰, on his instincts.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: And what does that mean, Robert? Does that mean we can expect to hear comments like the ones in the last few days, the Second Amendment¹¹ comment that some people took to mean he was threatening Hillary Clinton, and then more recently this comment that Hillary Clinton and President Clinton founded ISIS?

　　ROBERT COSTA: That's always the peril¹² Trump finds himself in as a novice¹³ first-time national candidate.

　　He likes to be the outsider, someone who's brash and bold in his mind, but he takes risks in his some of his comments by being out there a little bit. The party hopes that he can control some more of his incendiary remarks, but still have that outsider appeal, which they think is really Trump's really only path to the White House, to make these swing voters and working-class voters who are disengaged with the system feel like they maybe have a candidate for themselves.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: And, Robert, we have seen more — or at least a number of prominent Republicans like Senator Susan Collins of Maine come out and say they couldn't support Donald Trump. There was a letter this week by former foreign policy experts in the Republican Party. Then yet another letter went to the RNC from Republicans saying, we don't want you to spend as much money on Donald Trump, we want you to spend money on these other races.

　　Is this the kind of thing that the party leadership has to worry about or can they just ignore it all?

　　ROBERT COSTA: Oh, they're not ignoring it at all, Judy, because one of the things Trump is facing is, he doesn't have an institutional history within the Republican Party.

　　He doesn't have the relationships going back years that have sustained other nominees¹⁴ in past cycles when they have had a patch of rough poll numbers. A lot of Republicans now on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, they're saying, if Trump is going to lose the general election, in our view, maybe it's time to walk away, walk away in a full way, don't even have money going from major donors¹⁵ to the nominee, put it to those down-ballot race that are more vulnerable.

　　But Trump insists that the RNC is still going to work with him and Priebus was there today, but this is all happening, these conversations are circulating within the party that maybe Trump isn't going to win and things have to be done.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, Robert Costa with The Washington Post, we thank you very much.

　　ROBERT COSTA: Thank you.

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 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。

3 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

4 unity   

n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调

参考例句：

• When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
• We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。

5 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

6 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。

7 edgy   

adj.不安的；易怒的

参考例句：

• She's been a bit edgy lately,waiting for the exam results.她正在等待考试结果，所以最近有些焦躁不安。
• He was nervous and edgy, still chain-smoking.他紧张不安，还在一根接一根地抽着烟。

8 align   

vt.使成一线，结盟，调节；vi.成一线，结盟

参考例句：

• Align the ruler and the middle of the paper.使尺子与纸张的中部成一条直线。
• There are signs that the prime minister is aligning himself with the liberals.有迹象表明首相正在与自由党人结盟。

9 adamant   

adj.坚硬的，固执的

参考例句：

• We are adamant on the building of a well-off society.在建设小康社会这一点上，我们是坚定不移的。
• Veronica was quite adamant that they should stay on.维罗妮卡坚信他们必须继续留下去。

10 gut   

n.[pl.]胆量；内脏；adj.本能的；vt.取出内脏

参考例句：

• It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
• My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。

11 amendment   

n.改正，修正，改善，修正案

参考例句：

• The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
• The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。

12 peril   

n.(严重的)危险；危险的事物

参考例句：

• The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.难民有饿死的危险。
• The embankment is in great peril.河堤岌岌可危。

13 novice   

adj.新手的，生手的

参考例句：

• As a novice writer,this is something I'm interested in.作为初涉写作的人，我对此很感兴趣。
• She realized that she was a novice.她知道自己初出茅庐。

14 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

15 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》