竞选

I was also helped by James Carville and a brilliant campaign team who kept me and everyone else focused and on message through all the ups and downs; by Stan Greenberg's insightful polling and Frank Greer's effective paid media; by able people who led the campaign at the grass roots; by a Democratic Party united by Ron Brown's skill and the desire to win after a dozen years in the wilderness; by extraordinarily high levels of support from minorities and women, who also elected a Congress with six female senators and forty-seven female members of the House, up from twenty-eight; by the initial disunity and overconfidence among the Republicans; by surprisingly positive press coverage in the general election, in stark contrast to the going-over I got in the primaries; by the extraordinary performance of Al and Tipper Gore in the campaign, and the generational change we all represented; and by the New Democrat philosophy and ideas I had developed in Arkansas and with the DLC.

多亏了詹姆斯。卡维尔和才华出众的竞选班子的帮助，无论是处于顺境还是逆境，他们使我和其他所有人精力集中在我们的政见上；也多亏了斯坦。格林伯格富有洞察力的民意调查和弗兰克。格里尔卓有成效的付费宣传手段；多亏了在基层领导竞选活动的能干的人们；多亏了因罗恩。布朗的领导技巧和12年在野之后希望重新上台的愿望而团结一致的民主党；还有来自少数族裔和妇女非凡的鼎力支持，是他们，还选举出了一个有着6名女参议员和47名女众议员的国会，以前只有28名；也得感谢共和党刚开始的不团结和过分自信；感谢大选中来自媒体的令人惊异的正面报道，与我在初选中遭到的严厉谴责形成鲜明的对比；感谢艾尔和蒂珀的杰出表现，以及我们所有人代表的新老两代人的交替；感谢我在阿肯色州及民主党领袖委员会工作期间形成的人生观和理念。

"But after blowing hot and cold for weeks, aides had expected the star to bow to the concerns of his wife about the effect on their four children and stay out of the October gubernatorial race."

但是经过几周的犹豫之后，他的助手们希望他能够顾及他妻子的担心而放弃十月的州长竞选活动。他的妻子担心参加竞选会影响到他们的四个孩子。

"But after blowing hot and cold for weeks, aide s had expected the star to bow to the concerns of his wife about the effect on their four children and stay out of the October gubernatorial race."

但是经过几周的犹豫之后，他的助手们希望他能够顾及他妻子的担心而放弃十月的州长竞选活动。他的妻子担心参加竞选会影响到他们的四个孩子。

Tipper and I feel a deep gratitude to Joe and Hadassah Lieberman who brought passion and high purpose to our partnership and opened new doors, not just for our campaign but for our country.

尤其要感谢我的夫人和利伯曼，感谢他们为我们的竞选不断注入活力和希望，不仅仅为了竞选，更是为了我们整个国家。

While I was out on the hustings, Betsey Wright was working hard to get the mechanics in place.

我外出发表竞选演讲的时候，贝琪。赖特一直努力工作，将竞选活动的机构和细节安排到位。

Two Tory campaign strategists came to Washington to advise the Bush campaign on how they might destroy me the way the Conservative Party had undone Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock six months earlier.

英国保守党的两个竞选战略专家专程赶到华盛顿，给老布什的竞选团队提供建议，像六个月前保守党诋毁工党领导人尼尔。基诺克那样毁掉我。

Few people these days have the time or inclination to volunteer on a political campaign, particularly since the day-to-day tasks of working on a campaign generally involve licking envelopes and knocking on doors, not drafting speeches and thinking big thoughts.

在现如今，很少有人有空闲时间或有兴趣来自发自愿地参与政治竞选活动，因为对他们来说，单调的竞选活动就是贴信封封口或是拜访陌生人，而不是起草演讲稿或是考虑大众的需求。

I knew I'd have to run the campaign out of Little Rock.

我心中有数，我的竞选活动要从小石城开始，它不仅是州政府所在地，而且还位于本州的中心，而且是可能是投我票的人最多，最有可能筹集到竞选资金的地方。

Among those who didn't come out of the campaign were my choice for White House counsel, Bernie Nussbaum, Hillary's colleague on the 1974 Nixon impeachment inquiry staff; Ira Magaziner, my Oxford classmate, who would work with us on health-care reform; Howard Paster, an experienced Washington lobbyist, who would manage our congressional relations; John Podesta, an old friend from the Duffey campaign, as staff secretary; Katie McGinty, Al Gores choice for our environmental policy person; and Betty Currie, Warren Christopher's secretary in the transition, who would do the same job for me.

我任命的有些官员并没有帮助我竞选，其中包括伯尼。努斯鲍姆、伊拉。马加齐纳、霍华德。帕斯特、约翰。波德斯塔、凯蒂。麦金蒂、贝蒂。科里和安德鲁。弗兰德利。伯尼。努斯鲍姆将任白宫法律顾问。在1974年的尼克松弹劾案中，他和希拉里同在调查小组中。伊拉。马加齐纳是我牛津大学的同学，将和我们一起推进医保改革。霍华德。帕斯特在华盛顿是经验丰富的说客，将负责处理我们与国会的关系。约翰。波德斯塔是我参加杜菲竞选时认识的朋友，将担任人事秘书。凯蒂。麦金蒂是戈尔选定的，任环保政策顾问。贝蒂。科里在过渡时期担任克里斯托弗的秘书，后来担任了我的秘书。

The McGovern trailer was overseen by Gary Hart as national campaign manager, with Frank Mankiewicz as national political director and public spokesman, and my friend Rick Stearns as the director of research and caucus state operations.

麦戈文的宣传房车是由好几个人监管的：加里。哈特担任全国竞选经理，弗兰克。曼凯维奇担任竞选活动的全国政治主任和新闻发言人，我的朋友里克。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。