2020考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day19

英语阅读能力依靠什么？必然是词汇的积累，但，仅仅是词汇的积累是不够了，更应该了解英语句式，不同句型所表达意义。如何培养自己的阅读语感呢？那么就跟着聚英聚创考研信息网小编每天学一点英语，一起为考研筑起坚实的地基。阅读是需要积累的，就像我们需要经常和人沟通才会促进我们的表达能力一样~小伙伴跟着小编一起，每天坚持打卡，培养英语阅读能力及语感，了解文章一些经典词汇的用法。

经济学人:舆论漩涡中的美国新任大法官卡瓦诺

 

Leaders：The Supreme Court

社论：最高法院

Whatever the FBI finds, Brett Kavanaugh's own testimony should disqualify him from America’s highest court.It may never be possible to know what really happened in the suburban Maryland home where Christine Blasey Ford recalls being sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh in the summer of 1982.Mr Kavanaugh vehemently denies the accusation.

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不管联邦调查局调查出什么，布雷特·卡瓦诺自己的证词应该会使他无法进入最高法院任职。克里斯蒂娜·布拉西·福特回忆1982年的夏天在马里兰州一处郊区的房子里遭到布雷特·卡瓦诺的侵犯，或许永远无法知道真正发生了什么。卡瓦诺极力反对这一指控。

 

Given the difficulty of litigating a 36-year-old case, the risk of destroying the reputation of a man who may be innocent, and the partisan nature of the opposition——Democrats were against Mr Kavanaugh long before he faced allegations of sexual assault——should Republican senators confirm the president's nominee when the Senate votes?They should not.

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考虑到诉讼一个36年之久的案件，考虑到会毁掉可能是无辜之人的名声，还考虑到反对党的党派性质——早在卡瓦诺面临性侵犯指控之前，民主党人就反对他了——参议院投票时，共和党参议员应该支持总统的提名吗？不应该。

 

Even if an FBI investigation fails to turn up new evidence about what happened in a bedroom 36 years ago, there is no disputing what Mr Kavanaugh said in his confirmation hearings last week.And it was damning.Mr Kavanaugh was evasive and disingenuous.Under oath, he depicted himself as a typical teenage drinker and in control.A number of contemporaries at school and college dispute that.

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即使联邦调查局的调查没有发现36年前卧室里所发生事情的新证据，毫无疑问，上周卡瓦诺先生在他的证词中所表述的也毫无疑问。罪该万死。卡瓦诺先生闪烁其词，半伪半真。在宣誓后，他描述自己为典型的青少年酗酒者，且没有失控。许多中学和大学同学对此表示异议。

 

He claimed that he could legally drink in Maryland in his senior year——hence the "100 Kegs or Bust" boast in his yearbook.In fact, by the time he turned 18, the drinking age was 21.Lots of American teenagers drink before they are legally allowed to.They do not mislead the Senate about it three decades later.

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他声称高中时可以在马里兰州喝酒——因此，在他的年鉴中有“100 Kegs or Bust”的吹嘘。事实上，在他18岁的时候，他的饮酒年龄是21岁。许多美国青少年在被合法允许前就喝酒了。三十年后，他们并没有误导参议院。

 

Mr Kavanaugh told other small fibs under oath.He said that references by him and his friends to a girl called Renate, which contemporaries say were boasts of sexual conquest, real or pretended, were "intended to show affection, and that she was one of us".

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卡瓦诺在宣誓后说了其他小谎言。他说他和他的朋友提到叫做雷纳特的女孩，是“意在表达爱意，她是我们中的一员”。同时代的人说这是对性征服的吹嘘，不管是真的还是假的。

 

He changed the meanings of slang from his yearbook: the “Devil’s Triangle” (sex between one woman and two men) became a drinking game nobody has heard of;"boofing" (anal sex or infusion of drugs or alcohol) became farting.The real meanings might be awkward for Mr Kavanaugh, but a judge should not redefine words to avoid embarrassment.

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他把俚语的意思从年鉴里改了过来：“魔鬼三角”（一个女人和两个男人之间的性爱）变成了一个没有人听说过的喝酒游戏；“boofing”（肛交或注射毒品或酗酒）变成放屁。对卡瓦诺来说，真正的含义可能有些尴尬，但是法官不应该为了避免尴尬而重新定义词语。

 

注释

1.dispute 辩论； 争端

BBC News provides a step-by-step guide to the dispute

BBC新闻提供了关于这场争端的一步的指导。来源于《BBC》

The First Minister says the resolution to the dispute lies between the employers and nursery nurses.

第一部长说，这场纠纷的解决是雇主和护士之间的事。来源于《BBC》

 

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