PBS高端访谈:为什么美国共和党人会因特朗普引起分歧?

 　　HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: "The Washington Post" released a 2005 video of Donald Trump¹ speaking in vulgar terms that disparaged² women last week. Then came a series of accusations³ by women accusing Trump of sexual improprieties.

　　This is costing Trump support in his own party. According to a "USA Today" survey, about 25 percent of the Republicans serving as governors, U.S. senators and members of the House of Representatives now say they do not support Trump. And according to a "Time Magazine" tally⁴, among female Republicans in office, around 35 percent do not support him.

　　To discuss the gap within the GOP, I'm joined from Washington by Jonathan Swan, a national political reporter with "The Hill".

　　So, how significant is this rift⁵?

　　JONATHAN SWAN, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER, THE HILL: It's about as significant as it can — as imaginable. I mean, this — particularly, in the last few weeks, when Donald Trump and his cohort made a strategic decision to no longer migrate towards the center. I mean, there was sort of a period there where he was at least indicating that he was trying to reach out to some of those undecided voters. Now, there seems to be a strategy to really just double down on the most incendiary rhetoric⁶ possible.

　　So, you already had a whole lot of Republicans who were deeply uncomfortable about supporting Trump but wanted to support him, and he's making it very, very easy for them now to say, "No, we don't want to be a part of this". And what it's doing, really, is severing⁷ through what was a very thin thread connecting the Paul Ryan wing of the Republican Party to the Donald Trump wing of the Republican Party.

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: So, what happens to all the people that support Trump that no longer see, perhaps, the GOP as their home?

　　为什么美国共和党人会因特朗普引起分歧?

　　JONATHAN SWAN: Well, this is a conversation that's now happening with increasing intensity⁸ all around Washington. I mean, I — this week I had conversations with people close to Paul Ryan. I had conversations with people who were working for Donald Trump. And both camps are saying now openly that there may need to be a third party.

　　I mean, how do you reconcile the Donald Trump universe, which is the view of Donald Trump and his campaign CEO Steve Bannon, is that Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, is part of the conspiracy⁹ with folks like George Soros and Paul Singer to bring about one-world government, to destroy America through open borders. That's literally¹⁰ their world view.

　　Steve Bannon has said to his colleagues at "Breitbart" that Paul Ryan is the enemy. How do you reconcile that with Paul Ryan and with the elite¹¹ wing of the Republican Party that believes in all of these orthodoxies that they've supported for the past 20 years? I don't see how those two things join up.

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: Ryan's task doesn't get any easier after Election Day.

　　JONATHAN SWAN: It gets harder. He's going to have a reelection for speaker. He's probably going to have a slimmer majority. I don't believe that the House is going to flip¹², but they may lose some seats. There's quite a few vulnerable members.

　　So, Paul Ryan is going to face a more hostile caucus¹³. He is going to have a month of nuclear warfare¹⁴ from the person who has possession of the biggest megaphone in the party. Donald Trump has been savaging¹⁵ Paul Ryan. He's been suggesting there's something sinister¹⁶ going on, that Paul Ryan is masterminding some kind of a plot to undermine him.

　　So, that has resonance¹⁷ with the Republican base. I can tell you, a lot of folks close to Paul Ryan are really worried about the effect, the toxic¹⁸ effect that Trump's rhetoric is having among the Republican base and the way that they view Paul Ryan

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: All right. Something to keep an eye on.

　　Jonathan Swan from "The Hill" — thanks for joining us.

　　JONATHAN SWAN: A pleasure.

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 disparaged   

v.轻视( disparage的过去式和过去分词 )；贬低；批评；非难

参考例句：

• French-Canadian fur trappers and Sioux disparaged such country as "bad lands. " 法语的加拿大毛皮捕兽器和苏人的贬低国家作为“坏土地”。 来自互联网
• She disparaged her student's efforts. 她轻视她的学生做出的努力。 来自互联网

3 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

4 tally   

n.计数器，记分，一致，测量；vt.计算，记录，使一致；vi.计算，记分，一致

参考例句：

• Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
• The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。

5 rift   

n.裂口，隙缝，切口；v.裂开，割开，渗入

参考例句：

• He was anxious to mend the rift between the two men.他急于弥合这两个人之间的裂痕。
• The sun appeared through a rift in the clouds.太阳从云层间隙中冒出来。

6 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

7 severing   

v.切断，断绝( sever的现在分词 )；断，裂

参考例句：

• The death of a second parent is like severing an umbilical cord to our past. 父母当中第二个人去世，就象斩断了把我们同过去联在一起的纽带。 来自辞典例句
• The severing theory and severing method for brittle block are studied. 研究裂纹技术应用于分离脆性块体的分离理论和分离方法。 来自互联网

8 intensity   

n.强烈，剧烈；强度；烈度

参考例句：

• I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。
• The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。

9 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

10 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

11 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

12 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

13 caucus   

n.秘密会议；干部会议；v.（参加）干部开会议

参考例句：

• This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
• It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。

14 warfare   

n.战争(状态)；斗争；冲突

参考例句：

• He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。
• Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。

15 savaging   

（动物）凶狠地攻击（或伤害）( savage的现在分词 )； 残害； 猛烈批评； 激烈抨击

参考例句：

• The flip side of retrospectively savaging the loser is beatifying.the winner(Charles Krauthammer) 失败者并没有对已过去的事感到恼怒，相反的，他们正在为胜利者祝福（查尔斯克劳萨默）

16 sinister   

adj.不吉利的，凶恶的，左边的

参考例句：

• There is something sinister at the back of that series of crimes.在这一系列罪行背后有险恶的阴谋。
• Their proposals are all worthless and designed out of sinister motives.他们的建议不仅一钱不值，而且包藏祸心。

17 resonance   

n.洪亮；共鸣；共振

参考例句：

• Playing the piano sets up resonance in those glass ornaments.一弹钢琴那些玻璃饰物就会产生共振。
• The areas under the two resonance envelopes are unequal.两个共振峰下面的面积是不相等的。

18 toxic   

adj.有毒的，因中毒引起的

参考例句：

• The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
• There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。