PBS高端访谈:特朗普对经济进行重新调整

 　　JUDY WOODRUFF: It's down to business for President Trump¹, and the first order of business today was economic policy. A weekend of tumult² over the size of the inaugural³ crowd, record-breaking protest marches and news coverage⁴, gave way today to a focus on trade and jobs.

　　John Yang spent this day at the White House.

　　JOHN YANG: On his first full workday in the White House, President Trump wielded⁵ the presidential pen.

　　PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Great thing for the American worker that we just did.

　　JOHN YANG: Mr. Trump took three executive actions, formally withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific partnership⁶, or TPP.

　　Former President Obama pushed the 12-country trade pact⁷, but Congress never voted on it. The president also froze federal government hiring outside of the military, and he revived an on-again/off-again ban on federal funding for international groups providing abortions⁸.

　　But the theme of the day was clearly meant to be trade, business and jobs.

　　DONALD TRUMP: Good morning, everybody.

　　MAN: Good morning, Mr. President.

　　JOHN YANG: The president had breakfast with business executives, talking tax and regulation cuts. He made clear he wants to keep U.S. jobs from moving overseas.

　　DONALD TRUMP: We are going to be imposing⁹ a very major border tax on the product when it comes in, which I think is fair, which is fair. So, a company that wants to fire all of its people in the United States and build some factory someplace else and then thinks that that product is going to just flow across the border into the United States, that's not going to happen.

　　JOHN YANG: Ford¹⁰ CEO Mark Fields said he was encouraged.

　　MARK FIELDS, CEO, Ford Motor Company: I come out with a lot of confidence that the president is very, very serious on making sure that the United States economy is going to be strong. And I think that encourages all of us as CEOs as we make decisions going forward.

　　DONALD TRUMP: Thank you for being here.

　　JOHN YANG: Later, he met with union workers.

　　DONALD TRUMP: Companies that left are going to come back to our country, and they're going to hire a lot of people. It's inconceivable to me that this was allowed to happen in the first place.

　　特朗普对经济进行重新调整

　　JOHN YANG: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, holding his first full White House press briefing, said there'd be more meetings like those.

　　SEAN SPICER, White House Press Secretary: I think that you're going to see a lot more of that, a listening president who is engaged and trying to figure out what policies and actions that he can take, that this government can. That's who he is. That's what he did during the transition, and I think that's what he's going to do going forward.

　　JOHN YANG: Mr. Trump also did some foreign policy work, speaking by phone with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, pledging to continue U.S. military aid.

　　Meanwhile, ethics¹¹ lawyers filed a federal lawsuit¹², charging that his companies are violating the Constitution by taking payments from foreign governments while he's in office.

　　Mr. Trump brushed it aside.

　　DONALD TRUMP: Without merit. Totally without merit.

　　JOHN YANG: The White House said Mr. Trump has now officially resigned from the Trump Organization, as he had promised to do.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: So, John, you reported on what the Trump White House has done this first day.

　　They had been saying to the press that they were going to come out of the box with one action after another. What more are they telling you they have up their sleeves this week?

　　JOHN YANG: Well, they say we should look for actions and other indications on trade later this week, and perhaps on immigration, although one thing they say we will now not see as an executive action will be President Trump undoing¹³ President Obama's executive action deferring¹⁴ action, deferring deportation¹⁵ action on undocumented immigrants who came to this country as minors¹⁶.

　　They say that is now not a priority. The priority on undocumented immigrants is on people with criminal records and those who pose a threat. And on those so-called dreamers, the young people who came as minors, they say they want to work with Congress for a permanent solution.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: And, John, we know the president also has a couple of meetings already lined up with foreign leaders coming into Washington.

　　JOHN YANG: That's right, Friday, his first foreign visitor will be British Prime Minister Theresa May.

　　And then on Monday, he will meeting with Enrique Pena Nieto, the president of Mexico.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: And, John, two other quick things. We know the president is going to be going to a retreat I guess with congressional Republicans later in the week, but I also want to get your sense of how it feels different to be covering a Trump White House.

　　JOHN YANG: Well, I'll tell you, at first transitions always tend to be a little chaotic¹⁷ and a little messy.

　　In the briefing today, there was a lot of activity, a lot of people there, a lot of interest. It was jammed in the Briefing Room for the briefing. It wasn't quite as crowded as it was for President Obama's last press conference, but still a lot of interest and a lot of people wanting to attend that first briefing.

　　JUDY WOODRUFF: John Yang covering the White House for us on this first full day, workday, for the Trump administration, thank you, John.

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 tumult   

n.喧哗；激动，混乱；吵闹

参考例句：

• The tumult in the streets awakened everyone in the house.街上的喧哗吵醒了屋子里的每一个人。
• His voice disappeared under growing tumult.他的声音消失在越来越响的喧哗声中。

3 inaugural   

adj.就职的；n.就职典礼

参考例句：

• We listened to the President's inaugural speech on the radio yesterday.昨天我们通过无线电听了总统的就职演说。
• Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.皮尔逊教授在新的阶梯讲堂发表了启用演说。

4 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

5 wielded   

手持着使用（武器、工具等）( wield的过去式和过去分词 )； 具有； 运用（权力）； 施加（影响）

参考例句：

• The bad eggs wielded power, while the good people were oppressed. 坏人当道，好人受气
• He was nominally the leader, but others actually wielded the power. 名义上他是领导者，但实际上是别人掌握实权。

6 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

7 pact   

n.合同，条约，公约，协定

参考例句：

• The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。
• The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。

8 abortions   

n.小产( abortion的名词复数 )；小产胎儿；（计划）等中止或夭折；败育

参考例句：

• The Venerable Master: By not having abortions, by not killing living beings. 上人：不堕胎、不杀生。 来自互联网
• Conclusion Chromosome abnormality is one of the causes of spontaneous abortions. 结论：染色体异常是导致反复自然流产的原因之一。 来自互联网

9 imposing   

adj.使人难忘的，壮丽的，堂皇的，雄伟的

参考例句：

• The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
• He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。

10 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

11 ethics   

n.伦理学；伦理观，道德标准

参考例句：

• The ethics of his profession don't permit him to do that.他的职业道德不允许他那样做。
• Personal ethics and professional ethics sometimes conflict.个人道德和职业道德有时会相互抵触。

12 lawsuit   

n.诉讼，控诉

参考例句：

• They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
• He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。

13 undoing   

n.毁灭的原因，祸根；破坏，毁灭

参考例句：

• That one mistake was his undoing. 他一失足即成千古恨。
• This hard attitude may have led to his undoing. 可能就是这种强硬的态度导致了他的垮台。

14 deferring   

v.拖延，延缓，推迟( defer的现在分词 )；服从某人的意愿，遵从

参考例句：

• Recently, the Supreme Court has focused on an additional reason for deferring to administrative agencies. 最近，最高法院强调了尊重行政机构的另一种理由。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• Think of it as deferring part of the compiler's job to runtime. 可以认为这是将编译器的部分工作延迟到了运行时。 来自互联网

15 deportation   

n.驱逐，放逐

参考例句：

• The government issued a deportation order against the four men.政府发出了对那4名男子的驱逐令。
• Years ago convicted criminals in England could face deportation to Australia.很多年以前，英国已定罪的犯人可能被驱逐到澳大利亚。

16 minors   

n.未成年人( minor的名词复数 )；副修科目；小公司；[逻辑学]小前提v.[主美国英语]副修，选修，兼修( minor的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors. 法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He had three minors this semester. 这学期他有三门副修科目。 来自《简明英汉词典》

17 chaotic   

adj.混沌的，一片混乱的，一团糟的

参考例句：

• Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
• The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。