【英文报刊翻译090423】说还是做？

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出处：《纽约时报》

翻译：Translated by Kevin.Ren from

Talking Versus Doing 说还是做

If you look around America today, you see the Olson logic playing out. Interest groups turn every judicial fight into an ideological war. They lobby for （试图通过游说获得）more spending on the elderly, even though the country is trillions of dollars short of (缺 少)being able to live up to its promises. They've turned environmental concern into subsidies for corn growers and energy concerns into subsidies for oil companies.
如果看看今日之美国，你就会发现奥尔森的逻辑正在上演。利益团体把每一场司法争斗都转别为意识形态之战。他们不断游说试图为老年人争取更多的资金，即使美国 要实现其承诺还缺少数万亿美元。他们已经将对环境的关切转化为对谷物种植者的补贴，将对能源的关切转别为对石油公司的补助。

The question amid this supposed change election is: Who is going to end this sort of thing?
有这样一个问题一直萦绕在这场理应是谋求变革的选举之中：谁将充当此种事情的终结者？

Barack Obama talks about taking on （同 某人较量）the special interests. This farm bill would have been a perfect opportunity to do so. But Obama supported the bill, just as he supported the 2005 energy bill that was a Christmas tree for the oil and gas industries.
巴拉克奥巴马说他要和特殊利益集团展开较量。这项农业议案本是他这样做的一个良机。但是正如他支持2005年的能源议案一样（此议案给石油与天然气行业送了一份圣诞大礼），奥巴马支持这一议案。

Obama's support may help him win Iowa, but it will lead to higher global food prices and more hunger in Africa. Moreover, it raises questions about how exactly he expects to bring about the change that he promises.
奥巴马对这一议案的支持或许会帮他赢得爱荷华州选举，但是这将导致全球食品价格进一步上涨，导致非洲出现更多的饥饿。此外，这使人们质疑奥巴马到底能在多大程度上带来他所许诺的变革。

John McCain opposed the farm bill. In an impassioned(充满激情的)speech on Monday, he declared: "It would be hard to find any single bill that better sums up（总 结, 概括）why so many Americans in both parties are so disappointed in the conduct of their government, and at times so disgusted by it."
约翰麦凯恩反对这项农业议案。在周一一场激情四射的演讲中,他宣称：很难找到还有哪项议案更能概括出为什么在两党中有如此多的美国人对政府行为感到如此的失望，有时甚至感到如此的令人作呕。

In fact, in this issue, McCain may have found a theme to unify his so far scattershot（漫无目标的）campaign. He has always been an awkward ideological warrior. In any case（无论如何, 不管怎样）, this year may not be the best year for Republicans to launch a right versus left crusade. But McCain has infinitely（无限地,无穷地）better grounds than Obama to run as a do-what-it-takes reformer.

In fact, Monday in Chicago, McCain declared: "In all my reforms, the goal is not to denigrate(诋毁, 诽谤)government but to make it better, not to deride(取笑; 嘲笑)government but to restore its good name."
事实上，周一在芝加哥，麦凯恩发表声明：我所有改革方案的目标不是诋毁政府，而是使政府变得更好，不是嘲笑政府，而是重塑政府的好名声。

Obama, sad to say, failed the farm bill test. McCain may have found a theme for a nation that has lost faith in its own institutions.
令人悲哀的是，奥巴马在农业议案的考验面前败下阵来。麦凯恩或许已经为这个对其自身的机构丧失信心的国家找到了一个主题。

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