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经济学人:列克星顿专栏--搅乱德克萨斯州(2)

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(1). 1:His political balancing act reflects his enigmatic figure.
2:He is much less charismatic than his immediate predecessors, Rick Perry and George W. Bush, and—deep into his second gubernatorial term—less well-known.
3:Having ascended to the governorship via the state Supreme Court bench and attorney-general’s office, he has never faced a tough election.
4:Many Texans have no idea even that he is wheelchair-bound, owing to a freak tree-fall accident he suffered as a teenager— though his courage in battling back from that tragedy is his most admirable quality.
5:Politically, too, Mr Abbott has managed to remain usefully indeterminate.
1:他的政治平衡行为反映了他令人费解的形象。
2:他的魅力远不如他的前任,里克·佩里和乔治·沃克·布什,而且在他的第二个州长任期内也不那么出名。
3:他通过州最高法院和总检察长办公室升任州长,从未面临过艰难的选举。
4:许多德克萨斯人甚至不知道他是坐轮椅的,因为他十几岁时遭遇了一次奇怪的树木坠落事故,尽管他从那场悲剧中奋力反抗的勇气是他最令人钦佩的品质。
5:在政治上雅培也设法保持了不确定性,这很有用。
(2). 1:He took office as a conservative hardliner—boasting of the 31 times he had sued the Obama administration and soon enough echoing Mr Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.
2:This earned him credit with a state party that had veered hard to the right.
3:Dan Patrick, leader of the Texan senate and an advocate of American grandparents risking covid-19 infection for the sake of the economy— even unto death—is its most recognisable face.
4:Yet Mr Abbott knows Mr Patrick’s politics is another sort of suicide mission in a state that last had a white majority over a decade ago.
5:The 2018 mid-terms, in which the Democrats flipped 14 seats in the state legislature (and Mr Patrick survived a surprisingly fierce challenge) underlined that reality.
6:Having won his own re-election with ease, Mr Abbott used his increased heft in the party to help launch one of the most quietly impressive Republican rethinks of the Trump era.
7:The state’s next biennial legislative session, held last year, was devoted to property tax and bipartisan education funding, not—as previously—to bathroom bills.
1:他上任时是保守派强硬派,自夸自己曾31次起诉奥巴马政府,并很快回应了特朗普的反移民言论。
2:这为他赢得了一个努力右倾的州政党的赞誉。
3:德克萨斯州参议院领袖丹·帕特里克倡导美国有感染新冠肺炎风险的老年人们,通过死亡以拯救美国经济,他是努力右倾的州政党的代表。
4:然而,雅培知道帕特里克先生的政见对于一个州来说,是另一种自杀式的任务,上一次自杀式任务是在10年前,当时白人占多数。
5:在2018年中期选举中,民主党在州议会中的席位翻了14席(帕特里克在一次出人意料的激烈挑战中获胜),凸显了这一现实。
6:在轻松赢得连任后,雅培利用自己在党内日益增加的分量,帮助发起了共和党对特朗普时代最令人印象深刻的反思之一。
7:该州下一次两年应届的立法会议于去年举行,专门讨论财产税和两党教育经费问题,而不是像以前那样讨论厕所法案。
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