政客

One might imagine that America's politicians would do all that they could to prevent Mr Judge's dystopia from materialising.

人们可能想象美国的政客们会全力以赴防止Judge先生所描述的情况出现。

The politician had the effrontery to ask the people he had insulted to vote for him.

这个政客竟厚颜地要求受过他侮辱的人投他一票。

She gave an equivocal answer, typical of a politician.

她的回答模棱两可，是典型的政客做法。

"The Toshiba vice-president's rhetoric reminds the Chinese people of those Japanese politicians who equivocate over Japan's war crimes against China," some pointed out.

也有人在网上说：东芝副总裁的那一大堆外交辞令，很容易就让中国消费者联想到日本某些政客对于历史问题心''。

Ask a Dutch politician about Benelux (a word apparently coined in The Economist in August 1946 by our Belgian correspondent, who tried out Nebelux before deciding that Benelux was more euphonious), and the response is often a snort.

如果询问一位荷兰政客关于三国关税同盟的情况，你所碰到的经常是一脸坏笑。（Benelux这一词语明显是《经济学人》驻比利时的记者在1946年8月杜撰出来的，开始叫Nebelux后来觉得Benelux更悦耳一些。

Politicians are just beginning to understand the high economic price exacted by outsourcing our manufacturing base.

政客们刚刚开始认识到高昂的经济代价外包付出我们的生产基地。

Will he become a great statesman like Abraham Lincoln, a masterful politician like Bill Clinton, or a pragmatic experimentalist like FDR?

他会成为像亚伯拉罕。林肯一样伟大的政治家，像比尔。克林顿一样派头十足的政客，还是像富兰克林。罗斯福一样务实的实干家？

Environmentalism is hot right now: it even featured on a recent cover of Vanity Fair, with Julia Roberts as a green fairy, George Clooney fetchingly attired in peasant gear and Al Gore brooding earthily.

但是当流行褪色后，政客们可能开始质疑付这么一笔补贴的逻辑何在？

But local politicians have made their own egregious contributions to the debacle without even the fig leaf of ideology.

可是地方上的政客们在促成此项挫败也是劣绩昭彰，甚至连意识形态的托词都不用。

All it would do is create a false sense of security and a fig leaf for politicians opposed to any serious action — then fail in the clinch.

不完美的金融改革方案只能创造一种虚假的安全感，并为反对任何实质性改革的政客提供一张遮羞布，然后在扭曲之间一败涂地。

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。