万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-04-10&11, 希拉里打破筹资记录

And we turn now to the campaign trail. Just one day after closing the books on fundraising for the first quarter, some early returns on what many are calling the first Primary.

Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign announced today it has raised a record 26 million dollars. And former Senator John Edward's campaign raised more than 14 million, nearly twice as much as he raised for the same period in 2004. No announcement yet from Senator Obama's campaign. Now John Hardwood is CNBC's chief Washington correspondent. He joins us tonight. John, what does this new information mean for the campaigns?

Most importantly, John, it means Hillary Clinton remains¹ the front-runner in this Democratic race in every respect including financially. But she's got a tougher race than most people had expected. Don't have that number from Barack Obama. But we expect it to top 20 million dollars, with him reporting more donors² and perhaps more room to grow as he is narrowing her lead in the poll. John Edward who is still ahead in Iowa appears on track as well to have enough money to compete it. Remember the goal in fundraising, John, not to beat your opponent, but have enough to get your message outrun a rival campaign.

What do we know about fundraising on the Republican side?

This is fascinating and even more influx³. We don't have a number from any of these nervous Republican campaigns yet. But we expect that John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, the two leaders in the polls would be under 20 million dollars. That's an opening for Mitt⁴ Romney. If he can do better than that, might kick start his campaign after some of the bruise⁵ he has taken over full flops⁷ in the last couple of months.

John Hardwood in Washington, John, Thank you.

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Kick start :Start (a motor cycle ,etc) by pushing down a lever with one's foot
Flop⁶ :Total failure (of a book ,play ,etc .)

1 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。

2 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》

3 influx   

n.流入，注入

参考例句：

• The country simply cannot absorb this influx of refugees.这个国家实在不能接纳这么多涌入的难民。
• Textile workers favoured protection because they feared an influx of cheap cloth.纺织工人拥护贸易保护措施，因为他们担心涌入廉价纺织品。

4 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。

5 bruise   

n.青肿，挫伤；伤痕；vt.打青；挫伤

参考例句：

• The bruise was caused by a kick.这伤痕是脚踢的。
• Jack fell down yesterday and got a big bruise on his face.杰克昨天摔了一跤，脸上摔出老大一块淤斑。

6 flop   

n.失败(者)，扑通一声；vi.笨重地行动，沉重地落下

参考例句：

• The fish gave a flop and landed back in the water.鱼扑通一声又跳回水里。
• The marketing campaign was a flop.The product didn't sell.市场宣传彻底失败，产品卖不出去。

7 flops   

n.失败( flop的名词复数 )v.（指书、戏剧等）彻底失败( flop的第三人称单数 )；（因疲惫而）猛然坐下；（笨拙地、不由自主地或松弛地）移动或落下；砸锅

参考例句：

• a pair of flip-flops 一双人字拖鞋
• HPC environments are often measured in terms of FLoating point Operations Per Second (FLOPS) . HPC环境通常以每秒浮点运算次数(FLOPS)加以度量。 来自互联网