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09年英汉互译 The Texas Ruffian(无赖) ? ? He was the elemental man, a man of endless, restless ambition.??Nothing was ever completed；??each accomplishment was a challenge to reach for more.??He was a politician the like of which we shall not see again in this century, a man who bridged very different Americas, his early days and attitudes forged by earthy, frontier attitudes, and whose final acts as President took us to the very edge of the moon.??He was a man of stunning force, drive and intelligence, and of equally stunning insecurity.??The enormity of his accomplishments never dimmed the hidden fears which had propelled him in the first place; he was, in that sense, the most human of politicians.??There was about Lyndon Johnson something compelling; the more he tried to hide his warts(烂疮疤), the more he revealed them.Loyalty was crucial: Washington, after all, was a city with enemies everywhere, with sharks swimming out there waiting for any sign of weakness.??Thus the inner circle had to be secure, truly secure; particularly a man with as profound a sense of his own weakness and vulnerabilities as Lyndon Johnson wanted men around he could trust.How loyal is that man? he asked a White House staffer about a potential hand.Well, he seems quite loyal, Mr. President. said the staffer.I dont want to loyalty, I want loyalty.??I want him to kiss my ass in Macys window at high soon and tell me it smells roses ...His almost desperate need for loyalty was the half of the coin of insecurity of this great towering figure who had accomplished so much, was so much a man of Washington, and yet in so many important sections of the city felt himself an alien, the Texas ruffian among the perfumed darlings of the East.??It was a profound part of him; his sense of being alien,of the prejudice against him, was never assuaged (in October 1964 when George Ball handed in his first memo against the Vietnam war, Johnson turned to an aid and said, youve got to be carefully of these Eastern l