2017考研英語拓展閱讀：奧巴馬對陣川普進入白熱化

考研英語來源：新東方網整理 2016-06-24　

ust a day after Mr Trump gave a speech on immigration and national security that included sweeping condemnations of Mr Obama’s policies, the president responded with some of his harshest criticisms to date.

起先川普就移民和國家安全問題發表了一份演說，他對于奧巴馬的政策給與了徹底的譴責，然而僅僅一天之后，奧巴馬就用他迄今而至最為嚴重的批評做了回應。

"Where does this stop?" Mr Obama asked. "The Orlando killer, one of the San Bernardino killers, the Fort Hood killer - they were all US citizens. Are we going to start treating all Muslim-Americans differently? Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? Are we going to start to discriminate [against] them, because of their faith?"

奧巴馬問到：“什么時候才是個頭啊?奧蘭多案兇手、圣貝納迪諾案的一名兇手、胡德堡案兇手--他們都是美國公民。我們現在要開始對所有穆斯林美國人區別對待了嗎?我們現在要開始對他們進行特別監視了嗎?就因為他們的信仰，我們現在就要開始對他們進行歧視了嗎?”

Such views, Mr Obama said, are "not the America we want".

奧巴馬說，這些論點“不是我們想要的美國”。

As the Obama-Trump clash heats up, here are several things to keep in mind.

隨著奧巴馬和川普之間的對決逐漸升溫，有幾件事我們需要銘記在心。

Donald Trump and Barack Obama have a history that predates the current election cycle. In early 2011 Mr Trump repeatedly circulated conspiracy theories about the authenticity of the president’s birth certificate and whether he was actually born in the US.

事實上在這輪大選開始前，川普和奧巴馬之間就結下了梁子。早在2011年的時候，川普就一再流傳關于奧巴馬出生證明真實性的陰謀論，他甚至懷疑奧巴馬不是在美國出生的。

Later that year, at a black-tie Washington event, Mr Obama relentlessly mocked Mr Trump while the New Yorker sat stone-faced in the audience - a performance the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik said helped motivate Mr Trump to eventually run for president.

那年晚些時候，在華盛頓一場正式活動上，奧巴馬無情地嘲弄了川普，當時川普面色鐵青地坐在賓客中間--據亞當·高普尼克透露，正是那場活動讓川普最終下定決心競選美國總統。

Over the past year Mr Trump has questioned Mr Obama’s competence and openly speculated about his allegiances in what he labels the war on radical Islam. As recently as Sunday, he cryptically noted that Mr Obama was either "tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind".

在過去的一年里，川普質疑了奧巴馬的能力，并將其所領導的戰爭打上了“激進伊斯蘭”的標簽，公開質疑奧巴馬對國家的忠誠。就在上周末，他隱晦地指出奧巴馬既不“強硬，也不聰明，腦子里什么其他東西都沒有”。

Mr Obama has criticised Mr Trump in the past, but his remarks on Tuesday were the sharpest, most direct of this political season. His tone was stern, his language blunt.

奧巴馬之前也曾批評過川普，但是周二的講話是他這一任期內最尖銳、最直接的發言。他的語氣很嚴厲，他的措辭很直接。

A few hours later, Mr Trump shot back, effectively accusing Mr Obama of treason.

幾個小時之后，川普反擊了，直截有力地指控奧巴馬叛國罪。

The president, he said in an email to the Associated Press, "continues to prioritise our enemy over our allies, and for that matter, the American people".

在發給美聯社的一份郵件中，川普說總統“繼續把我們的敵人擺在優先于我們盟友的地位，更甚者，擺在優先于美國人民的地位”。

The president clearly does not like the presumptive Republican nominee - and the feeling appears to be mutual.

很明顯奧巴馬總統不喜歡這位共和黨假定候選人--而相互的，川普也不喜歡奧巴馬。

There’s very little precedent in modern US political history for a sitting president to directly and sharply criticise the opposing party’s standard-bearer in the run-up to a general election.

在美國現代政治史上，很少有現任總統在大選開始前，直接、尖銳地批評反對黨的候選人的先例。

In part that’s because there simply haven’t been many two-term presidents in recent memory - George W Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower are the only ones since World War 2. And of those, only Reagan and Eisenhower left office with high approval and largely free from scandal.

一部分原因是因為近年來，沒有多少連任兩屆的美國總統--喬治·W·布什、比爾·克林頓、羅納德·里根和德懷特·艾森豪威爾是二戰以來僅有的幾位連任兩屆的總統。在這些人之中，只有里根和艾森豪威爾在卸任之時獲得了很大的贊譽，并且幾乎沒有丑聞。

Mr Obama is currently above 50% in most opinion polls and has been trending upward, so he is in a position to be an active and eager participant in the campaign fray. Because he’s not the nominee, he has a free hand in what he can say, and he can bring the full weight of the presidency to bear on Mr Trump.

在大多數民調中奧巴馬的支持率都在50%以上，并且這一數據一直曾上升趨勢，所以他將來能夠在競選辯論中成為一個積極、熱心的參與者。因為他不是提名人，所以在他的發言上沒有束縛，而且他可以調動身為總統的所有優勢來擊敗川普。

The Republican nominee will be effectively campaigning against two candidates - Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama. And, at least for now, Mr Trump can only count on the tepid support of many of his fellow Republicans. Following Mr Obama’s remarks on Tuesday, the Republican National Committee issued a press release that made no mention of Mr Trump or his proposed immigration measures, instead focusing on the Second Amendment and firearm rights.

川普實際上將要和兩位民主黨候選人競爭--希拉里和奧巴馬。然而，至少從現在來看是這樣，川普只能夠依靠他眾多共和黨同僚不溫不火的支持。在奧巴馬于周二發表講話過后，共和黨全國委員會發布了一篇新聞稿，新聞中沒有提及川普和他提出的移民措施，反而關注于憲法第二修正案和槍支權利。