Unit2Politics.pptVIP

Quiz---Translation Checks and Balances legislative, judicial,executive Congress senator, representative popular election electoral college primary; caucus closed/open primary red/ blue/purple states Mid-term election hit the campaign trail deep-pocketed allies political novice Quiz---Translation death penalty immediate goal commemorate be presided over by be awash in weapons drug cartel bureaucratic infighting al Quaeda graveyard of empires Achilles’s heel Quiz---Translation 大选情势不明，金钱不代表所有 今年情势多变的中期选举颠覆了美国政治中一个广为流传的理念：拥有较多竞选资金的一方有足够的资金可以击败竞争者。 Now, at the end of a wasteful and frustrating decade, our objective is to end the fighting and leave a measure of? stability behind. To the extent that he knows his history, I suspect he imagines a replay of Cold War days, when the hawks of both parties had a quiet deal with the liberals: they would support social policies in return for the liberals’ votes for defense spending. We kept the Russians at bay?, the welfare state continued to expand, and both sides were happy. Quiz---Translation Probably no country in the world is a worse candidate for nation-building — something the U.S. is ill equipped to do in the best of circumstances. It is time for conservatives, Tea Partiers, and right-thinking Americans, from whatever persuasion, to recognize that Obama’s Afghan war is a fool’s errand with virtually no chance of success, whatever success may mean. Common words and expressions stumble: ~ (over sth) strike ones foot against sth and almost fall 绊脚 shore up :支撑, 支持 He(Reagan) sent Secretary of State Shultz to Capitol Hill in an effort to shore up wavering Republicans. ? 他(里根)派国务卿舒尔兹到国会山庄去给意志动摇的共和党议员打气。 pipe dream : A fantastic notion or vain hope. 白日梦，幻想，空想 Political terms President Karzai :总统卡赛/卡尔扎伊 born 24 December 1957) is the?12th?and current?President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the?Taliban regime?in late 2001.