查询词典 Middle America

SIXTEEN years ago an American presidential election was fought against the backdrop of a weak economy and a grumpy electorate. In 1992, in the shadow of a recession and with Americans worried about their living standards, their health care and their country's ability to compete, a charismatic young Democrat won by focusing on middle-class America's economic angst and excoriating the "failed" policies of the Reagan and Bush eras.

16年前，一场针对疲软经济背景以及坏脾气选民的总统大选拉开帷幕。1992年，笼罩着衰退的阴霾，以及在美国人对自己的生活水平、医疗保健和国家竞争力的担忧中，一位魅力超凡的年轻民主党候选人，通过聚焦美国中产阶级的经济焦虑和批判里根及布什时代的&失败&政策，赢得了大选。

In 1992, in the shadow of a recession and with Americans worried about their living standards, their health care and their country's ability to compete, a charismatic young Democrat won by focusing on middle-class America's economic angst and excoriating the "failed" policies of the Reagan and Bush eras.

最终，通过对中产阶级的经济担忧的充分重视及对里根及老布什时代政策的严厉斥责，一位民主党的青年才俊当选了，他就是克林顿。

In testimony to a Senate committee this week, General David Petraeus, hero of Iraq and America's commander in the wider Middle East, said the unsolved conflict in Palestine was fomenting anti-Americanism in the wider region.

在这星期接受一个参议员委员会质询时，戴维·彼得雷乌斯将军——伊拉克战争的英雄，也是美国的中东司令，表示巴勒斯坦问题的悬而不决正煽动着广大地区的反美情绪。

After giving BILLIONS to Wall Street hucksters and criminal investment bankers — billions with no strings attached and , as we have since learned, no oversight whatsoever — the Senate decided it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.

在给华尔街的骗子和官司缠身的投资银行上亿，没有附带条件的上亿，正如我们知道的，真他妈的算不怎么失职，议员选择打破工会更重要，损失中产阶级利益，使其沦为工人无产阶级比保护破产的美国工业更重要。

After giving BILLIONS to Wall Street hucksters and criminal investment bankers—billions with no strings attached and, as we have since learned, no oversight whatsoever—the Senate decided it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.

在给华尔街贩子和投行骗子们送去数十亿之后——不附加任何条件，后来我们发现也没有任何监督，啥也不附加的送上数十亿——参议院决定，与防止美国工业全面崩溃相比，更重要的是要干掉工会，让中产阶级工薪族去做苦工。

I know it probably won't happen in your first year, but if and when it does, the legislation will enable America to take a huge step toward recapturing the middle-class society we've lost.

我知道这很可能不会在您总统任期的第一年发生，但当这事在某个时候发生了，这一立法将使得美国能在重新找回我们失去的中产阶级社会的道路上前进一大步。

I know it probably won''t happen in your first year, but if and when it does, the legislation will enable America to take a huge step toward recapturing the middle-class society we''ve lost.

我知道第一年你可能办不到这些，但你做的那一天，这立法会是美国跨出的一大步，将会使我们的''中产阶级''社会失而复得。

Many developing countries in Latin America and the Middle East stagnated after periods of rapid growth.

拉美和中东的许多发展中国家都在经历了迅速发展的阶段后变得停滞不前。

Many developing countries in Latin America and the Middle East stagnated after periods of rapid growth.

多数拉美和中东的发展中国家，在经历了一段时期的飞速发展之后，出现了停滞。

While in America the trend s tarted as a reaction to the economic decline-after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late ' 80s-and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.

在美国，这一返朴趋势是以经济衰落的反应为开始的--那是在80年代末期裁员而引起大量的失业之后一一现在依然与提倡节俭的政纲相关；而在英国，最起码在我所熟识的中产阶级返朴归隐者中，追求简约；生活的原因就多种多样了。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。