PBS高端访谈:希拉里在家养病 奥巴马亲自出马为她助选

 　　GWEN IFILL: Hillary Clinton is still on the sick list tonight, but she's gotten a political shot in the arm. It came today from the man she once battled for the presidency¹, and now hopes to succeed in the White House.

　　He's the biggest surrogate an ailing² Hillary Clinton could have called on, at a moment the candidate needed it most.

　　In Philadelphia today, President Obama offered a rousing defense³ of his former secretary of state.

　　PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: She's been accused of everything you can imagine and has been subjected to more scrutiny⁴, and what I believe is more unfair criticism, than anybody out here. We take for granted sometimes what is steady and true. And Hillary Clinton's steady, and she is true.

　　GWEN IFILL: Clinton remained sidelined with pneumonia⁵ today. But she called in to CNN last night to discuss her collapse⁶ on Sunday and the delay in publicly acknowledging her illness.

　　希拉里在家养病 奥巴马亲自出马为她助选

　　ANDERSON COOPER: Why not just say on Friday, as you said to — apparently⁷ to Senator Schumer on Sunday, you know, I have pneumonia, folks, I'm going to power through it? Why keep it a secret?

　　HILLARY CLINTON (D), Presidential Nominee⁸: Well, I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal.

　　GWEN IFILL: Republican Donald Trump⁹ was on the road, stopping in Iowa, ready, he said, with a plan to ease the financial burden of child care.

　　DONALD TRUMP (R), Presidential Nominee: We have to start taking care of each other, which we're not doing. Tonight, I'm going to roll out a plan to help our mothers and our families get affordable¹⁰ quality child care for their children.

　　GWEN IFILL: Trump's allies stuck to a different topic: condemning¹¹ Clinton for putting half of his supporters into what she called a basket of deplorables.

　　HILLARY CLINTON: The racist¹², sexist, homophobic, xenophobic.

　　GWEN IFILL: Donald Trump Jr. posted a photo showing an overflowing¹³ Trump rally, with the line, "Looks like we are going to need a bigger basket."

　　But Trump and running mate Mike Pence faced new pressure for refusing to say former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke is, to use Clinton's critique, deplorable. Pence huddled¹⁴ with House Republicans at the U.S. Capitol today.

　　GOV. MIKE PENCE (R), Vice¹⁵ Presidential Nominee: Donald Trump and I have denounced David Duke repeatedly. We have said that we do not want his support, and we do not want support of people who think like him, that the simple fact is that I'm not in the name-calling business.

　　But I'm also not going to validate¹⁶ the language that Hillary Clinton used to describe the American people.

　　GWEN IFILL: A campaign official says Trump will visit Flint, Michigan, tomorrow. He's said he would have prevented the city's water crisis if he'd been president.

　　Clinton is unlikely to return to the campaign trail before Friday, as she recovers, under doctor's orders, at home in New York.

1 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

2 ailing   

v.生病

参考例句：

• They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
• She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。

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 scrutiny   

n.详细检查，仔细观察

参考例句：

• His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好，但是经不起仔细检查。
• Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。

5 pneumonia   

n.肺炎

参考例句：

• Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
• Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。

6 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

7 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

8 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

9 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。

10 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

11 condemning   

v.（通常因道义上的原因而）谴责( condemn的现在分词 )；宣判；宣布…不能使用；迫使…陷于不幸的境地

参考例句：

• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
• I concur with the speaker in condemning what has been done. 我同意发言者对所做的事加以谴责。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

12 racist   

n.种族主义者，种族主义分子

参考例句：

• a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
• His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。

13 overflowing   

n. 溢出物,溢流 adj. 充沛的，充满的 动词overflow的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The stands were overflowing with farm and sideline products. 集市上农副产品非常丰富。
• The milk is overflowing. 牛奶溢出来了。

14 huddled   

挤在一起（huddle的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
• We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。

15 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

16 validate   

vt.（法律）使有效，使生效

参考例句：

• You need an official signature to validate the order.你要有正式的签字，这张汇票才能生效。
• In order to validate the agreement,both parties sign it.为使协议有效，双方在上面签了字。