纽约时报 政客能成为像体育明星一样的英雄吗?(2)

I did not see Lillard's peroration¹ live on TV but a day later, on Twitter, where it played in heavy rotation², accompanied by sentiments like "class act" and "no better role model."

我没有在电视上看到利拉德的讲述，而是一天后在推特上看到的。在推特上，他的讲述被大量转发，评论中透漏出如“出类拔萃”和“最佳榜样”之类的情感。

I am a basketball fan and have followed Lillard since his college days; the first time I came across the clip, I also happened to be waiting for my daughter to finish soccer practice.

我是一个篮球迷，从利拉德上大学时就一直关注着他。第一次看到这段视频时，我正等着女儿完成足球训练。

And yet despite being steeped in sports, both in my history and in that moment, they were the furthest thing from my mind as I watched.

然而，尽管我沉浸在体育中，无论是在我过去、还是在那一刻，当我观看视频时，那是我脑海中最遥远的事情。

Lillard's defense³ of discipline and hard work made me think about, of all things, politics.

利拉德捍卫纪律和努力工作的态度不禁让我想起了政治。

Public performance and spectacle — rallies, speeches, news conferences — are as inherent to politics as they are to sports.

公开表演如集会、演讲、新闻发布会，对政治和体育来说都是固有的。

Our two major political parties even hold their national conventions in giant sports arenas⁴. And in politics, just as in sports, a tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes work is involved in making the spectacle possible.

我们的两个主要政党甚至在大型体育场馆举行全国代表大会。在政治领域，就像在体育领域一样，为了让这一切成为可能，需要做大量的幕后工作。

Before the senator's dramatic floor speech, the bill must be drafted; the convention pageantry is typically preceded by the monthslong slog of drawing up a party platform.

在参议员戏剧性的演讲之前，必须起草好法案；在党代会盛大举行之前，通常会有长达数月的起草党纲的苦差事。

The public performance of politics is secondary to — and at the service of — the behind-the-scenes work, because the behind-the-scenes work is, in effect, the actual operation of government.

政治的公开表现是次要的，而且还是为幕后工作服务的，因为幕后工作实际上才是政府的实际运作。

1 peroration   

n.（演说等之）结论

参考例句：

• As he worked his way from ethos and logos to the pathos of peroration,he bade us think of the connection between deprivation and belligerence,and to do something about it.当他在演讲中从道义和理念，转到结尾处的感伤时，他请我们考虑贫困与好战的关系，并为此做些什么。
• He summarized his main points in his peroration.他在结束语中总结了他的演讲要点。

2 rotation   

n.旋转；循环，轮流

参考例句：

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
• The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。

3 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。

4 arenas   

表演场地( arena的名词复数 )； 竞技场； 活动或斗争的场所或场面； 圆形运动场

参考例句：

• Demolition derbies are large-scale automobile rodeos that take place in big arenas. 撞车比赛指的是在很大的竞技场上举行的大型汽车驾驶技术表演。
• Are there areas of privacy in the most public of arenas? 在绝大部分公开的场合中存在需要保护隐私的领域吗？