美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-07-29

 We'll, of course, have the latest on Britain's new prince, making his public debut¹ today. That, a lot in depth tonight.

 

But, first breaking news and there's no prince charming in it. Anthony Weiner, the sexting congressman² who resigned in disgrace and is now running for mayor of New York, admitting to sending additional sexually explicit³ messages more than a year after stepping down from Congress and not long after a flattering spread in "People" magazine about his new son and rebuilt family life. 

 

Again he was doing this a full year after he shamefully⁴ resigned from Congress, after he apologized to his constituents⁵, after he publicly apologized to his wife. 

 

And speaking of his wife, Huma, she was by his side when Weiner spoke⁶ to reporters today. 

 

Some of these things happened before my resignation, some of them happened after. But the fact is that that was also the time that my wife and I were working through some things in our marriage. 

 

Well, the explicit messages were sent on Form Spring according to a Web site called the dirty.com which published them. Weiner allegedly using the online handle Carlos Danger. The question tonight, what drove him to keep at it long after it seemed he was over it, long after it wrecked⁷ his career and strained his marriage. 

 

A sex relationship expert joins us later in the program but first Dana Bash has the latest. 

 

So you covered the Weiner scandal when it broke around two years ago. Did you ever in your wildest imagine think you would see what you saw today? 

 

No, I mean, not a chance. And first of all, let's just go back in time. I still couldn't believe what happened happened at the time. But certainly, knowing the people who are close to him, knowing the people who are around them, it seemed very clear that this was his wife giving him a second chance, and that he was going to therapy and dealing⁸ with it. 

 

And what was one of the many things that was extraordinary about the press conference today was that it was Huma Abedin herself, his wife, who revealed the news that it was just a year ago that he was still engaging in this activity. 

 

Listen to what she said. 

 

Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs. It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where I could forgive Anthony. It was not an easy choice in any way, but I made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage. 

 

So, Dana, I mean, the timing⁹ of this, I'm assuming this means that he was sending these explicit sexual messages to other people while his wife was pregnant, even after his child was born, is that correct? 

 

It certainly seems that way. I mean, if you sort of do the math going back to when he resigned in the first place, Huma, that was when she revealed that she was pregnant. She was just pregnant. I think she was in her first trimester(三个月). If you look at what was on dirty.com it said that he was sending these messages in July and August of 2012. Their son was born in December of 2011. 

 

So it appears that way. But we don't know for sure that those are the dates but he did make clear that it happened well into, well into last year. 

 

There are obviously, you know, one of the, when this press conference ended, when they were walking away, one reporter was kind of yelling out, why should anybody trust you, and it was a question he didn't answer. 

 

You know Huma Abedin personally. How unusual is it for her to speak publicly like this? Because I don't think I've ever heard her speak like this. 

 

Well, you know, I don't know her well, but I certainly know a lot of people who do know her well, and she's very well respected. And, you know, she's almost like Cher and Madonna is and the rest of the world here in Washington, she's just known as Huma because she is such a fixture¹⁰ especially in Hillary Clinton's inner circle. She has been for decades now. 

 

And there has been a lot, Anderson, written about how private she is. And she certainly is. She has a very tight loyal circle of friends but she's also incredibly politically sophisticated. Not only did she learned on the knee of Hillary Clinton, the most famous kind of stand-by-her-man political wife, she also was the go-to person for anyone who wanted to get to Hillary Clinton, which means that she had to be one of the most discerning, savvy¹¹ figures in politics, so we have to remember that about her, as well.

1 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

2 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

3 explicit   

adj.详述的，明确的；坦率的；显然的

参考例句：

• She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
• He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。

4 shamefully   

可耻地； 丢脸地； 不体面地； 羞耻地

参考例句：

• He misused his dog shamefully. 他可耻地虐待自己的狗。
• They have served me shamefully for a long time. 长期以来，他们待我很坏。

5 constituents   

n.选民( constituent的名词复数 )；成分；构成部分；要素

参考例句：

• She has the full support of her constituents. 她得到本区选民的全力支持。
• Hydrogen and oxygen are the constituents of water. 氢和氧是水的主要成分。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 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。

7 wrecked   

adj.失事的，遇难的

参考例句：

• the hulk of a wrecked ship 遇难轮船的残骸
• the salvage of the wrecked tanker 对失事油轮的打捞

8 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

9 timing   

n.时间安排，时间选择

参考例句：

• The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
• The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。

10 fixture   

n.固定设备；预定日期；比赛时间；定期存款

参考例句：

• Lighting fixture must be installed at once.必须立即安装照明设备。
• The cordless kettle may now be a fixture in most kitchens.无绳电热水壶现在可能是多数厨房的固定设备。

11 savvy   

v.知道，了解；n.理解能力，机智，悟性；adj.有见识的，懂实际知识的，通情达理的

参考例句：

• She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
• Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了？