From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

  • -- Carl Hiaasen 卡尔·希尔森

从我的经验来看,政客们更不愿意被取笑,而不是被说教、被尖叫——你知道,以及被例行公事地说教。当他们知道自己是被嘲笑的对象时,他们会更加不安。

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It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

一段时间后,解析政客们一遍又一遍地做同样的事情是有点乏味的。事实每周都在变化,但化妆舞会却没有。

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

一次又一次,我们听到政客们说,在经济如此脆弱的时候,他们不能把我们的税金花在环境保护上。

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

此外,我还在曼哈顿、布鲁克林和布朗克斯区的街头向犯罪团伙布道——奇迹开始发生。