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New York Tribune referred him as a "wretched, rattlepated boy"
《紐約先驅(qū)論壇報》形容他是個“卑劣又愚蠢的兔崽子”
I sort of look at rattlepated, I couldn't find it in my dictionary
我查了一下rattlepated這個詞，在我的字典里沒找到
"Posing in vapid vanity and mouthing resounding rottenness", well they're going for alliteration to be sure
“擺出一副讓人厭倦的驕傲姿態(tài)說著自以為振聾發(fā)聵的陳腔濫調(diào)”，他們這么寫顯然是為了押韻
and the Philadelphia Press refer his followers as "hideous and repulsive vipers"
《費(fèi)城新聞》形容他的支持者是一群“又丑又令人反胃的屌絲”
So again if you think things are over the top today
所以不用為如今競選之激烈感到驚嘆
Well, there's a long heritage in American politics of doing this sort of things
美國的政治史上競選中的各種奇招已有著悠久傳統(tǒng)
So what William Jennings Bryan was able to do was to merge the interior west, the mining states
當(dāng)時布萊恩成功地獲得了西部大陸州區(qū)，以煤礦為支柱的州
the great plains with the exceptional North Dakota and the south
大平原州區(qū)，北達(dá)科他州及南部的支持
A coherent block against the northeast,great lakes and most of the pacific coast
完全隔離了東北部大湖區(qū)和太平洋沿岸州區(qū)
but where was most of the population was in the red zone
但人口最為密集的地帶卻在這小片紅色區(qū)域
William Mckinley, Republican candidate, hard money man, gold standard man with a pretty impressive political machine behind him
共和黨候選人，威廉·麥肯利一個推行硬性貨幣和金本質(zhì)的政治家，背后有著強(qiáng)大的政治集團(tuán)的支撐
It's estimated that Mckinley aided by Marcus Hanna who was sort of the master of the Republican party
據(jù)估計(jì)麥肯利受馬克思·漢納一位共和黨巨鱷
at this time they were estimated that they spend about 17 million versus 300 thousand for Bryan
在那次大選中的資助達(dá)到了一千七百萬美金，布萊恩只花了三十萬
but what Bryan did was to campaign very energetically
但布萊恩精力充沛地參與每次拉票活動
He was the one of the first to drop this notion that the presidential aspirant should be dignified and not campaigned,
他是第一個放下總統(tǒng)候選人高高在上的姿態(tài)
he travelled extensively and did anything he could, but suffered certainly in the electoral college
在全國到處游說拉票的他盡其所能，但最終卻輸在選舉人票上
A fairly resounding defeat
這是歷史上著名的一次敗選
