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LEHRER: Senator McCain, two minutes.
主持人：麥凱恩議員，兩分鐘。
MCCAIN: Well, thank you, Jim. And thanks to everybody.
麥凱恩：好的，謝謝你，吉姆。謝謝所有人。
And I do have a sad note tonight. Senator Kennedy is in the hospital. He's a dear and beloved friend to all of us. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the lion of the Senate.
今晚我還有一個令人遺憾的消息：肯尼迪議員住院了。他是我們最親愛的一個朋友。讓我們向議會的雄獅表達掛念和祈禱。
I also want to thank the University of Mississippi for hosting us tonight.
我也要感謝今晚容納我們的密西西比大學。
And, Jim, I -- I've been not feeling too great about a lot of things lately. So have a lot of Americans who are facing challenges. But I'm feeling a little better tonight, and I'll tell you why.
而吉姆，我--我近來一直對很多事情感到不滿。許多面臨困難的美國人們也和我一樣。然而今晚我感覺稍微好些了，我會告訴你為什么。
Because as we're here tonight in this debate, we are seeing, for the first time in a long time, Republicans and Democrats together, sitting down, trying to work out a solution to this fiscal crisis that we're in.
這是因為我們在今晚這場辯論上，我們看到，這是相當長一段時間以來第一次共和黨人和民主黨人坐下來，嘗試作出一個我們所面臨的金融危機的解決方案。
（注：我認為麥凱恩此言，意在抨擊民主黨人的"不合作"。當然，這個"不合作"是由他所定義的。）
And have no doubt about the magnitude of this crisis. And we're not talking about failure of institutions on Wall Street. We're talking about failures on Main Street, and people who will lose their jobs, and their credits, and their homes, if we don't fix the greatest fiscal crisis, probably in -- certainly in our time, and I've been around a little while.
我們毫不懷疑這次危機的危害性。我們現在不是在討論華爾街那些機構的破產，我們是在討論城鎮主街上（那些人）的破產。如果我們不解決掉這次重大的財政危機，也許--不，毫無疑問地，在我們的有生之年，人們將失去他們的工作，他們的銀行存款和他們的家。（笑）我已經伴隨（金融危機）一段時間了。
But the point is -- the point is, we have finally seen Republicans and Democrats sitting down and negotiating together and coming up with a package.
但重點是--重點是，我們終于看到了，共和黨人和民主黨人坐下來一起磋商并將提出一系列方案（注：由于找不到中文對應于package的這個意思，只好用一系列方案來代替了）。
This package has transparency in it. It has to have accountability and oversight. It has to have options for loans to failing businesses, rather than the government taking over those loans. We have to -- it has to have a package with a number of other essential elements to it.
這些方案應該有透明性。它們應該可以落實責任和監管。它們應該包括轉讓衰退中的生意的債權，而不是讓政府直接接管這些債權。我們必須--不，這些方案還應當包括許多其他的必需元素。
And, yes, I went back to Washington, and I met with my Republicans in the House of Representatives. And they weren't part of the negotiations, and I understand that. And it was the House Republicans that decided that they would be part of the solution to this problem.
還有，我回了一趟華盛頓，并會見了眾議院的共和黨議員們。他們并沒有參與磋商，我理解。是共和黨議會決定，他們也將是解決這次（金融危機）問題的一部分。
But I want to emphasize one point to all Americans tonight. This isn't the beginning of the end of this crisis. This is the end of the beginning, if we come out with a package that will keep these institutions stable.
但今晚我想對所有的美國人強調一點。現在不是金融危機尾聲的序幕。即使我們拿出一系列解決方案使得那些（金融）機構穩定，現在也只是金融危機序幕的尾聲。
And we've got a lot of work to do. And we've got to create jobs. And one of the areas, of course, is to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.
我們還有很多事情要做。我們得創造就業崗位。而創造就業崗位中一件（要做的）事情就是消除我們對外國石油的依賴。
（注：個人以為麥凱恩在最后幾句話里渲染金融危機的嚴重性，然后稍微透露一點"宏圖和前景"，企圖加強美國人對他的依賴感。很古老的招數，但政客們都在用。）
