A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选举
Election
I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.
我是决策者;我是议员。
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
这次选举可不是什么恶心的电视节目。
People are what this election is all about.
人民就是这次选举的全部。
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
无论输赢，我们都在选举后去购物。
I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.
我没有赢得选举所需要的基础。
I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs.
我是由布加勒斯特人民选举出来的，而不是狗。
Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.
选举之夜是最容易表现得像个大人的时候。
Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.
不管有没有选举，国会都不能休假一年。
Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
从来没有人通过向政敌吐口水来赢得选举。
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
坏官员是由不投票的好公民选出来的。
So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
所以对我们来说，我们在选举中获得的任何一票，都是一场胜利。
I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
我被选为国会议员的方式和每次议会选举一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.
让我告诉你那些重要的民意调查，这些是选举前几周的民意调查。这时，民意测验专家们开始担心他们的可信度。所有人都记得这些民调。
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
虽然现在已经是大选年，但我们只有携手前进，只有满足人民的迫切需要，才能取得胜利。我们不能停滞不前，也不能倒退。我们现在必须共同前进。
I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.
我没有放弃工作……在不同的议题上，也许需要一两次选举才能完全酝酿，也许有时人们需要一段时间才能意识到最好的道路是什么。
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
在我当选之前，年轻的切罗基女孩从来没有想过她们长大后会成为酋长。
Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along.
双方都知道上次选举只是下一次选举的开始。很明显，他们并没有试图进行任何形式的和睦相处。
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
选举是一种道德上的恐怖，除了流血之外，它和战争一样糟糕;为每一个与之有关的灵魂洗个泥浴。