自由民主党

Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire.

汤马斯。杰佛逊是《独立宣言》、《维吉尼亚宗教自由法令》、一七八四年与一七八五年西部土地法，以及其它大批官方文献的起草人，他一度担任维吉尼亚州州长、驻法大使、国务卿以及美国副总统，并于一八○○年当选为美国总统。杰佛逊是所有鼓吹民主信仰的美国人之中辩才最健的一位，他把崇高的理想与广泛的实际情况结合在一起：他是一位学者、科学家、建筑师、民主党创始人，同时也是注重实际的政治家。

The Democrats and Progressives would have to wait until later to put many of their more liberal ideas into action.

民主党人和进步党党员需要等到后来把它们更自由的想法付诸实现。

Unfortunately, I couldn't persuade very many of them, because the AFL-CIO, which was still angry about losing the NAFTA vote, had made the fast-track vote a test of whether Democrats were for or against labor.

不幸的是，我无法说动他们中的许多人，因为美国劳联-产联对输掉对《北美自由贸易协定》的投票仍很生气，正把快速通道立法作为检验民主党人是支持劳工还是反对劳工的标准。

They were liberal Democrats who opposed the Vietnam War, and they agreed to support me.

他们是自由派民主党人，反对越南战争。他们同意支持我。

Some even see the disarray among Republican hawks, social conservatives and economic libertarians as evidence that the reign of the Grand Old Party is over and that a new Democratic majority is dawning.

还有人指出共和党内部鹰派、保守派和经济自由派人物纷争不断，这将导致共和党的统治失势，民主党将迎来曙光。

Jim Horney, a former Democratic congressional staffer now at the liberal Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities, a think-tank, says it has been made even harder by the disappearance of any culture of restraint in Congress.

吉姆·霍尼以前曾在民主党国会中任职，现在他受聘于一家自由派研究机构：预算与政策优先权中心（Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities）。他认为国会中遏制传统的缺失使得对政府政策的监管变得更为困难。

Jim Horney, a former Democratic congressional staffer now at the liberal Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities, a think-tank, says it has been made even harder by the disappearance of any culture of restraint in Congress.

现任自由派预算与政策优先权中心智囊的前民主党国会工作人员吉姆·霍尼表示，国会中抑制文化的消失让事情变得愈加困难。

Plunder melds and run with this jewel!

掠夺melds和运行与此宝石！

My dream is to be a crazy growing tree and extend at the edge between the city and the forest.

此刻，也许正是在通往天国的路上，我体验着这白色的晕旋。