美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-07-15

 We have put together field operation. Everybody said it is hard to gather 3,750 signatures over the course of couple days on the streets of city. I feel confident and we are out there today. But I feel pretty we will be ok.

 

OK, confident.

 

But I feel like a CEO, who is reporting cording we earnings¹ before they are out, I don’t want to over-promise, I don’t want to under-promise, we feel comfortable, and we will see what out of this.

 

You have the votes, because you have to move ahead of that. Will you have the votes...?

 

Well, that is the ultimate test, of course. I will feel the public is going to give me a fair hearing; it’s the one pull that is come out. This is certainly the very encouraging I’m waiting. But I didn’t pull before I got into this race. I have got an instinct that if I make my case to the public, the instant what they did to the Attorney General, fighting is the independent voice on financial matters and the whole graph of other stuff, but certainly financial matters, which go to the heart and soul what had been in the control of what the city is all about, I think the public will go to support …  

 

You know, there is also this feeling though in New York and elsewhere, that you had your chance, Eliot, as governor of New York, you had your chance and you blew it. 

 

Right.

 

Why do you deserve it as to trust another chance?

 

First, I seek in the public trust and we didn’t; we accomplished² the enormous amount, not only when I was Attorney General, but we fully³ founded the New York City’s public education system. We did not raise taxes; we reformed health care; we put in place and created the New York state stem cell research fund. I could go on reform on the employment …. 

 

But I could go on to. You know what they talk about? It was, yes, the Attorney General prosecuted⁴ and tried. And you prosecuted prosecution⁵ rings. And, as Governor, you know, you rushed your jobs, you rushed your jobs because of hypocrisy⁶. 

 

No, I resigned because I believed it was the appropriate way to say I appreciate what accountability is all about, which it had been something like I had spoken about and I believe in. Five years later, I am ready to go to the public and say, here is the entirety of the record, here is the totality of the record. I think I can serve once more. And I am ready to serve. If you want, bring me back. I have always trusted the public. Whether it was a low-level prosecutor⁷ trial in misdemeanor case in front of a jury, or significant felony cases, or as a politician ask them for vote, I would trust and defer⁸ to the public’s verdict on that. And I asked gonna to be able to make my case, that’s wonder

1 earnings   

n.工资收人；利润，利益，所得

参考例句：

• That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
• Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。

2 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。

3 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

4 prosecuted   

a.被起诉的

参考例句：

• The editors are being prosecuted for obscenity. 编辑因刊载污秽文字而被起诉。
• The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。

5 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

6 hypocrisy   

n.伪善，虚伪

参考例句：

• He railed against hypocrisy and greed.他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。
• He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。

7 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

8 defer   

vt.推迟，拖延；vi.(to)遵从，听从，服从

参考例句：

• We wish to defer our decision until next week.我们希望推迟到下星期再作出决定。
• We will defer to whatever the committee decides.我们遵从委员会作出的任何决定。