008《经济学家》读译参考之八：预备!开火!瞄准!!-切尼打鹌鹑.docVIP

TEXT 8 Ready, fire, aim 预备！开火！瞄准！！ Feb 16th 2006 From The Economist print edition Foreword：A vice-president, a ★quail[1] and the first glimmer of class warfare in hunting 引言：一位副总统，一只鹌鹑，等级矛盾第一次在打猎中凸现。 POLITICALGRAVEYARD.COM is （1）a goldmine for both trivia addicts and congenital time-wasters.▲ Do you want to find out about American politicians who were killed in duels (17 a______①_____ to the site)? Or about politicians who were murdered (86)? Or politicians who have been to outer space (6)? Or politicians who died while hunting or fishing (14)? Just point and click. But as yet the site doesnt have an entry for politicians who almost kill the poor ★saps[2] they are hunting or fishing with. 对于喜欢捕风捉影的人和那些天生爱好浪费时间的人而言，政治墓园网站（）是一个极佳去处。您想知道有多少美国政治家在决斗中丧生吗（该网站认为是17人）？有多少政治家遭谋杀（86人）？有多少政治家曾去过外太空（6人）？又有多少政治家在打猎或钓鱼时不幸身亡（14人）？点击便知。不过迄今为止，有关那些差点杀死同去狩猎或者钓鱼的“可怜虫”的政治家人数，这家网站还没有登记。 No doubt （2）the good people ▲at politicalgraveyard will soon update their site. Ever since Dick Cheney took aim at a quail on February 11th and hit a 78-year-old lawyer i_________②, America has been talking of little else. This is not only because Mr Cheneys tragicomic accident seemed to sum up his style of shooting first and asking questions later (hence a torrent of jokes about Mr Cheneys insistence that he was right to shoot despite the failure to find quail in the bushes). It is also because he handled the incident with astonishing ★ineptitude[3]. 政治墓园网站指定要更新他们的网页了。2月11日，迪克?切尼瞄准一只鹌鹑，结果却击中一位78岁的律师。自那以后美国人无不对此议论纷纷。切尼先生令人啼笑皆非的遭遇，似乎充分表明他惯于先斩后奏（因此这事也一时传为笑柄，都说他有权开枪射击，即便是灌木丛中没有鹌鹑），不过人们关注的焦点并非仅此而已，他在处置这一突发事件中所表现出来的无能也让人感到惊讶。 Harry Whittingtons wounds were s________③: he was pepper-sprayed in the face, neck, chest and rib cage, and rushed to intensive care. But Mr Cheney didnt bother to tell the public that their vice-president had ★winged[4] a lawyer until the next day (when he got his host to phone her local paper, the ★Corpus Christi[5] Caller-Times) and he didnt give a television interview until Februa