竞选

A third candidate for president, hardliner Mohsen Rezaei, who headed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards for 16 years, campaigned in northern Iran, saying he would form a coalition government which includes "efficient people that abide by the law."

竞选总统的第三位参选者是曾领导伊朗革命卫队16年的强硬派人士雷扎伊，他在伊朗北部进行竞选宣传时说，他将组成一个联合政府，由遵行法律并讲究效率的人士组成。

A man who started with no money and few supporters has out-thought, out-organised and outfought the two mightiest machines in American politics-the Clintons and the conservative right.

一个白手起家的竞选者在参选初期极度缺乏支持者，但通过深思熟虑，巧妙安排和无畏斗争，奥巴马击败了美国政坛上两个巨人级的竞选机器–克林顿家族和保守的极右势力。

"When there are fewer ads, the race is less covered and, then, 10 and behold, there is less public interest," says Tom Ochs, a Democratic consultant

&当竞选广告较少的时候，对竞选的报道也少了，那末，你瞧，公众的兴趣也就降温了，&民主党顾问汤姆·奥克斯这样说。

And even if he fails this time round, he is likely to remain on the top rung of American politics for decades to come—perhaps as a vice-presidential candidate in 2008, and probably as a presidential candidate later.

即使他这次竞选失败了，但是在未来的几十年里，他仍有可能活跃在美国政坛的顶层——可能成为2008年副总统候选人，或者有可能继续竞选总统。

Obama's campaign has taken a the high-tech battle one-step one step further with his plan to annoce announce his vice-presidential vice presidential running mate.

奥巴马的竞选在高科技战上领先了一步：他计划公布他的竞选伙伴，副总统候选人的名字。

The campaign seemed to be on track until January 23, when the Little Rock media received advance notice of a story in the February 4 issue of the tabloid newspaper Star, in which Gennifer Flowers said she had carried on a twelve-year affair with me.

我的竞选似乎顺风顺水，但在1月23日，小石城的媒体收到一家小报——《星报》将在2月4日刊登一篇报道的预先通知，在这篇报道里，珍妮弗。弗劳尔斯说她与我有长达12年的情史。在1990年我竞选阿肯色州州长的时候，拉里。

If the Republican Party chose me to run for president, my platform would be: to help people have more safety and help stop pollution and global warming.

如果共和党选择我去竞选总统，我的竞选纲领将是：让人们活得更安全，阻止污染和全球变暖进程。

This Tuesday, Democrats face almost certain defeat in the governor's race in Virginia the key Southern state that helped deliver Mr Obama victory and a desperately close call in New Jersey, where the Democratic governor is in deep trouble in what should be a safe seat.

本周二，民主党人在维吉尼亚州——这个南方的州在帮助奥巴马先生登上总统宝座方面发挥了关键作用——的州长竞选中面临着几乎必败的局面。而在本该十拿九稳的新泽西州，民主党州长正麻烦缠身，竞选局面已是千钧一发。

Five years ago: Ross Perot announced he would form a new Independence Party that would field its own White House candidate and would try to be the swing vote in congressional races.

五年前，Ross Perot宣布将成立新独立党，派他们参加他们的白宫竞选并设法取得国会竞选的最终决定权。

While in the state legislature, I never needed to spend more than $100,000 on a race; in fact, I developed a reputation for being something of a stick-in-the-mud when it came to fund-raising, coauthoring the first campaign finance legislation to pass in twenty-five years, refusing meals from lobbyists, rejecting checks from gaming and tobacco interests.

在州议会任职时，我从来没有在一场竞选活动中花掉多于10万美元，事实上，在筹集竞选资金时，我树立了极端保守这个名声，拒绝议会说客们的请客吃饭，拒收来自赌博和烟草利益集团的红包。

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。