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Mr Biden also tried to lay out the traditional policy case,
拜登还试图阐述一些传统的政策主张，

including, by his flubby standards, with some half-decent answers on policing and climate-change policy.
包括用他含糊不清的标准，半正式地回答了一些有关治安和气候变化政策的问题。

For his part, Mr Trump made a handful of disjointed, mostly defensive, claims for his administration's achievements:
而特朗普主要是为自己政府的所作所为发表了一些零散的辩护声明。

on the subject of insulin pricing, for example, he said "I'm getting it for so cheap it's like water."
例如，在胰岛素定价问题上，特朗普表示：“我买的胰岛素便宜的像水一样。”

But he did not describe any policy or future plan wholly or in detail.
但他没有完整或详细地描述任何一项政策或未来计划。

Was there a strategy to this beyond his usual refusal to be constrained by rules and need to dominate?
特朗普除了一贯拒绝受规则约束，以及对于统治权的需要以外，还有什么策略吗？

Maybe not;
也许并没有。

those urges explain most of what Mr Trump does.
正是这样的冲动才能解释特朗普大部分的所作所为。

But the strategic implications of his thuggery look no less dire for being, in all likelihood, unplanned.
但是，探究特朗普暴行所采用的策略，细思极恐，因为他极有可能是没有任何计划的。

Ahead of an election he appears on course to lose,
大选即将到来，特朗普似乎要输了。

he is telling his supporters that Democrats are not merely hostile opponents but somehow illegitimate.
他告诉自己的支持者，民主党不仅是对手，而且在某种程度上是不合法的。

He also repeated in Cleveland his unfounded claim that the election will "be a fraud like you've never seen".
在这次克利夫兰的总统辩论中，他再次重申了毫无根据的声明，声称总统大选将“是一场你从未见过的骗局”。

Asked to condemn the violent white supremacists who have already taken to the streets on his behalf, in Oregon and elsewhere, he failed to do so.
当特朗普被要求谴责那些打着他的旗号，充斥在俄勒冈州等地的街头的暴力的白人至上主义者时，他却充耳不闻。

None of this seemed likely to help his electoral prospects.
因为这些似乎都无助于他的选举前景。

It is the kind of behaviour that has turned a small majority of Americans against him.
正是这样的行为使一小部分美国人反对他，

And yet over 40% are still with him to the hilt.
但仍有超过40%的人支持他。

In "How Democracies Die", published early in Mr Trump's tenure,
在特朗普上任初期出版的《论民主的死亡》一书中，

two Harvard scholars, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, described a slippery slope
两位哈佛学者史蒂文·莱维斯基和丹尼尔·齐布拉特描述了民主国家的覆灭之路。

that starts with a trampling of democratic norms—thereby ending the degree of mutual trust between rivals that democracy requires—
从对民主规范的践踏开始——从而失去了民主制所要求的竞争对手之间的互信程度——

and proceeds through damage to institutions, especially those related to elections,
继而是对制度的损害，特别是与选举有关的制度，

to lawlessness and extremism.
最终到达漠视法律和极端主义。

It is always possible to underestimate the shock absorbers in America's vigorous, multi-tiered system.
在美国充满活力的多级体系中，人们总是有可能低估下坡路中起到缓冲作用的那一步骤。

Yet at the federal level, it must be admitted, many of the warning lights they described are already flashing.
然而，联邦层面必须承认缓冲机制已经遭到损害，学者们在书中描述的许多警告灯已经在闪烁。

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1.on the subject of 关于……问题
From now on Labour will be on the back foot on the subject of welfare.
今后工党在福利问题上将处于下风!r#CdI[hw_,+FPYhDkj。

2.in all likelihood 十之八九;极有可能
In all likelihood, the committee will have to interview every woman who's worked with Thomas.
十有八九，委员会将不得不与每一位曾和托马斯共过事的女性面谈,jYA2._+SrZATI_。

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