华盛顿邮报 数百名美国退役军人为外国政府工作(3)

So, the best-known example of someone going to work for the United Arab Emirates was actually Marine¹ General Jim Mattis, who's our former secretary of defense².

去阿拉伯联合酋长国工作的最著名的人物是海军陆战队上将詹姆斯·马蒂斯，他是我们的前国防部长。

Mm-hmm.

嗯嗯。

I, James Norman Mattis, do solemnly swear...

我，詹姆斯·诺曼·马蒂斯，庄严宣誓…

I, James Norman Mattis, do solemnly swear...

我，詹姆斯·诺曼·马蒂斯，庄严宣誓…

...that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States...

...我会拥护和捍卫美国宪法……

...that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States...

...我会拥护和捍卫美国宪法……

And we found out that he applied³ twice for foreign-government employment with the United Arab Emirates.

我们发现他曾两次申请阿拉伯联合酋长国的外国政府职位。

And, you know, that he had served as the head of all U.S. military operations in the Middle East, so he was very well-acquainted with the Emirati leadership.

而且，他曾是美国在中东所有军事行动的负责人，所以他非常熟悉阿联酋的领导层。

We asked General Mattis, you know, "How much did they pay you for this?"

我们问马蒂斯上将，“他们为此给了你多少钱?”

He said he did this on an unpaid⁴ basis.

他表示他这样做是无偿的。

But it's a little strange that you would have such a high-ranking retired⁵ general work as a military adviser⁶ for a foreign government.

但让这样一位高级退休上将为外国政府担任军事顾问有点奇怪。

And what's different in Mattis' case is that after he was working as an adviser for the United Arab Emirates, he comes back into U.S. government service as the secretary of defense.

马蒂斯的不同之处在于，他在担任完阿拉伯联合酋长国的顾问后，回到美国政府担任国防部长。

He becomes President Trump's first secretary of defense.

他成为特朗普总统的首任国防部长。

And this was something that never really was made public at the time, that Mattis had served as a military adviser.

马蒂斯曾担任军事顾问，这在当时是从未真正公开过的。

Again, he says unpaid, but, still, this was a role he held for a foreign government.

同样，他说没有报酬，但这仍然是他为外国政府担任的职务。

And then he comes back and he's in charge of our armed forces.

然后他回来指挥我们的军队。

So this was a twist and turn that we hadn't really expected, but sort of opened our eyes to the extent this is going on overseas.

这是一个我们没有预料到的转折，但在某种程度上打开了我们的眼界，看到了海外正在发生的事情。

Well, can you tell me a little bit, like, what are the implications exactly of having, you know, high-ranking military officials working for foreign governments and then, in Mattis case, coming back to work for the U.S. government?

嗯，你能告诉我，让像马蒂斯那样的高级军事官员为外国政府工作，然后再回到美国政府工作，到底意味着什么?

You know, what is the -- What are the broad concerns of having people participate in this revolving⁷ door?

让人们参与这个旋转门有什么广泛的担忧吗?

So, the United Arab Emirates, even though it's a very small country, with only about a million of its own citizens, over the last 10 or 15 years, it's built up a pretty strong military force.

阿拉伯联合酋长国，尽管是一个非常小的国家，只有大约一百万的公民，在过去的10到15年里，该国建立了一个相当强大的军事力量。

It's probably the best-equipped and most capable army in the Middle East of all the Arab countries, save for Israel, of course.

这可能是中东地区所有阿拉伯国家中装备最好、战斗力最强的军队，当然，以色列除外。

So this is a country that's built up its military with an awful lot of American help, both at the strategic-advice level, but also at the grunt⁸ level.

这个国家在美国的大量援助下建立起了自己的军队，不仅包括战略建议层面的援助，而且包括步兵层面的援助。

You know, we have hundreds of people there working as contractors⁹.

我们有几百人在那里做承包商。

And the way that's possibly problematic is the Emiratis have gone from just trying to defend their own territory to they've become more aggressive.

可能的问题是阿联酋已经从仅仅试图保卫自己的领土变得更加具有侵略性。

1 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

2 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

3 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

4 unpaid   

adj.未付款的，无报酬的

参考例句：

• Doctors work excessive unpaid overtime.医生过度加班却无报酬。
• He's doing a month's unpaid work experience with an engineering firm.他正在一家工程公司无偿工作一个月以获得工作经验。

5 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

6 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

7 revolving   

adj.旋转的，轮转式的；循环的v.（使）旋转( revolve的现在分词 )；细想

参考例句：

• The theatre has a revolving stage. 剧院有一个旋转舞台。
• The company became a revolving-door workplace. 这家公司成了工作的中转站。

8 grunt   

v.嘟哝；作呼噜声；n.呼噜声，嘟哝

参考例句：

• He lifted the heavy suitcase with a grunt.他咕噜着把沉重的提箱拎了起来。
• I ask him what he think,but he just grunt.我问他在想什麽，他只哼了一声。

9 contractors   

n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》