密歇根新闻广播 密歇根选民表示不喜欢美国大选风光

 

Presidential candidates keep hopping¹ on the bandwagon. 'Tis the season, after all.

But according to a recent survey conducted by the Detroit News and WDIV-TV, Michigan voters are mostly not liking² what they're seeing.

The News' Lansing reporter, Chad Livengood, tells us that the survey says the established brands – former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush – have an advantage through sheer recognizability, but they also have an "unfavorable" problem.

According to Livengood, when all candidates on the survey were scored on "favorables" versus³ "unfavorables," the results were skewed toward the latter.

"It's just one sign that maybe the public is increasingly disengaged or turned off by whom they see vying⁴ to be the next leader of the free world," Livengood says.

Listen to our conversation with Livengood above to learn more about the survey results and what it might mean in the upcoming political landscape.

1 hopping   

n. 跳跃 动词hop的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The clubs in town are really hopping. 城里的俱乐部真够热闹的。
• I'm hopping over to Paris for the weekend. 我要去巴黎度周末。

2 liking   

n.爱好；嗜好；喜欢

参考例句：

• The word palate also means taste or liking.Palate这个词也有“口味”或“嗜好”的意思。
• I must admit I have no liking for exaggeration.我必须承认我不喜欢夸大其词。

3 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

4 vying   

adj.竞争的；比赛的

参考例句：

• California is vying with other states to capture a piece of the growing communications market.为了在日渐扩大的通讯市场分得一杯羹，加利福尼亚正在和其他州展开竞争。
• Four rescue plans are vying to save the zoo.4个拯救动物园的方案正争得不可开交。