政治上的

As Halloween neared, all that remained on the political mask rack in the New York store were forlorn renderings of has-beens: George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.

随着万圣节的临近，纽约商店政治类面具货架上的就剩下那些被遗弃的明日黄花们的代言人：乔治。布什、迪克。切尼、以及比尔和希拉里。克林顿两口子。

If they could cut funding for Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the environment, middle-class Americans would see fewer benefits from their tax dollars, feel more resentful paying taxes, and become even more receptive to their appeals for tax cuts and their strategy of waging campaigns on divisive social and cultural issues like abortion, gay rights, and guns.

如果他们在医疗保障方案、医疗补助计划、教育、环保上削减经费，中产阶级就更难看到纳税的好处，就会更加对税收不满，变得更容易接受他们关于减税的呼吁，更容易接受他们在引起分裂的社会和文化热点问题，如流产、同性恋权利和枪支等方面发起政治运动的策略。

More politically salient is its warning that health inflation will squeeze wages hard as an ever larger share of compensation comes in the form of health insurance.

从政治上看，更为重要的警钟是，从医疗保险的赔偿所占份额之大这一点来看，医疗花费的膨胀将严重挤压人们的收入。

South Korea is seeking to ease some domestic irritation, with a move that could complicate American-Korean trade relations. Seoul is amending its promise to resume U.S. beef imports by imposing new trade conditions aimed at placating political critics of the South Korean president.

首尔政府正在修正先前做出的恢复进口美国牛肉的承诺，为美国牛肉进口制定了新的贸易条件，希望以此化解韩国总统在政治上受到的批评。

Both the Freudians and the behaviorists, though diametrically opposed politically and though proffering very different kinds of advise to parents, stress three things: 1 Parents must do the right thing at the right time. 2 Parents, if they try, can raise superior children. 3 If something goes wrong and the kids don't turn out OK, guess who's to blame?

佛洛依德和行为主义，尽管在政治上完全相反，但给父母提出了完全不同的建议，主要集中在三方面：第一，父母必须在正确的时候作正确的事情，第二，如果父母尽力，就可以培养出优秀的孩子，第三，如果出了问题，孩子结果不好，猜猜谁该受到责难？

Both the Freudians and the behaviorists, though diametrically opposed politically and though proffering very different kinds of advise to parents, stress three things: 1 Parents must do the right thing at the right time. 2 Parents, if they try, can raise superior children. 3 If something goes wrong and the kids don't turn out OK, guess who's to blame?

佛洛依德和行为主义，尽管在政治上完全相反，但给父母提出了完全不同的建议，主要集中在三方面：第一，父母必须在正确的时候做正确的事情，第二，如果父母尽力，就可以培养出优秀的孩子，第三，如果出了问题，孩子结果不好，猜猜谁该受到责难？

Some, I know, find the political and moral insight of the Utilitarians a very simple one, but we should not mistake this simplicity for superficiality nor forget how favourably their simplicities compare with the profundities of other thinkers.

我知道有人认为功利主义者在政治和道德问题上的见识并不难懂。实际上，他们的观点不是浅陋而是浅显易懂。而且，比起某些思想家的深邃难懂，功利主义者的直白实是一大优点。

As Supreme Leader, he supported the students behind the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, stalemated Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War, issued a fatwa for the death of author Salman Rushdie, and suppressed political and religious opposition. He died in 1989 and two million Iranians attended his funeral.

作为伊朗的最高领导人，霍梅尼支持策划1979年伊朗人质危机的学生，在两伊战争中与萨达姆侯赛因持久对峙，发布法特瓦通缉追杀印裔英国作家萨尔曼鲁西迪，并且压制政治和宗教上的反对派。1989年，霍梅尼去世，两百万伊朗人参加了他的葬礼。

This is a difficult responsibility to embrace, for human history has often been a record of nations and tribes, and, yes, religions subjugating one another in pursuit of their own interests.

继续这样子的冲突代价太大，政治上也阻力重重。如果我们能够自信的说，阿富汗和巴基斯坦没有坚决要杀死尽可能多的美国人的暴力极端主义分子，那我们将非常乐意将军队里面的每一个人带回家。但是现在，还不行。

In other words, these politically correct people would use the clause to suppress an institution they find abhorrent the prohibition of which transgresses a right they think is of limited importance, but not an institution they approve (same-sex marriage) which they see as required to condemn discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

换句话说，当这些政治上正确的人们发现一种制度可憎以及对该制度的禁止只会违反他们认为重要程度不大的权利时，他们可能就会适用这项条款对该制度进行压制，但是如果他们既赞成一种制度，又认为这种制度是谴责性取向歧视时不可或缺的东西，那么他们就会不再适用这项条款。

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。