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美语情景对话 第579期:Irish Politics 爱尔兰的政治

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  • So, Ruth, you're from Ireland.
  • 露丝,你来自爱尔兰。
  • Yes, that's right.
  • 对,没错。
  • And could you talk a little bit about the government in Ireland, like do you have a president or a prime minister?
  • 你能谈谈爱尔兰政府吗,比如你们国家的元首是总统还是总理?
  • In fact, we have both. We have a president, Mary McAleese,
  • 实际上,都有。我们的总统是玛丽·麦卡利斯,
  • and then there's another set, another ruling body, where the head is called the Taoiseach, which is Irish for Prime Minister,
  • 还有一个治理职位,即爱尔兰总理,
  • and the Prime Minister at the moment is a man called Bertie Ahern.
  • 现任总理是伯蒂·埃亨。
  • So you have two Prime Ministers.
  • 所以你们有两位总理。
  • We have a president and then we have a Prime Minister.
  • 我们有一名总统,一名总理。
  • OK, and the woman is the.
  • 好,那刚提到的女性是……
  • The woman is the President. Mary McAleese is the president.
  • 那名女性是现任总统。玛丽·麦卡利斯是现任总统。
  • OK, well, who actually has the power? Who makes the decisions?
  • 好,那谁掌握实权?谁来做决定?
  • Normally I think it's the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister, that makes most of the decisions, and he's over the government. He decides the government.
  • 我认为总理做大部分的决定,他是管理政府的人。他决定政府事务。
  • OK, and what's that title called, Taoiseach.
  • 好,那个职位叫什么,Taoiseach?
  • Taoiseach.
  • 对,Taoiseach。
  • Taoiseach.
  • OK, so that's like Gaelic.
  • 好,和苏格兰的盖尔语很像。
  • Yeah. Yeah. There are still some parts of Ireland that's the Gaelic and, and also because it's one of the official languages.
  • 对,没错。爱尔兰仍有很多地方用盖尔语,因为盖尔语是官方语言之一。
  • A lot of things will have an Irish name and an English name as well.
  • 许多东西既有爱尔兰说法也有英语说法。
  • So how do you choose the "Taoiseach".
  • 爱尔兰如何选总理?
  • The Taoiseach is chosen by the people. So we vote in the Prime Minister, but we also vote in the President as well. We get to choose both.
  • 爱尔兰总理由民众选出。我们会投票选出总理,当然总统也是民众投票选出来的。两个职位都要进行投票。
  • OK, well, that's quite interesting. Do the elections happen at the same time?
  • 嗯,这真有趣。选举是同时进行吗?
  • No, usually they happen seperately.
  • 不是,一般是分别举行的。
  • OK, so what's the point of having the President?
  • 好,那总统负责什么?
  • I'm not sure. I don't really know. I'm not big into politics, so I'm not sure how the whole thing works.
  • 我不太清楚。我真不清楚。我对政治不太感兴趣,所以我不太清楚政府的运作。
  • Right, right.
  • 好,好的。
  • But I just know that we have a president as well.
  • 不过我知道我们爱尔兰也有总统。
  • Well, have you ever had a female "Taoiseach", a female Prime Minister?
  • 好,有女性担任过总理一职吗?你们有过女性总理吗?
  • There's never been a female "Taoiseach", only female presidents.
  • 爱尔兰从未有过女性总理,只有女性总统。
  • We've had two female presidents. Mary McAleese and before her, Mary Robinson.
  • 爱尔兰有过两位女性总统,在现任总统玛丽·麦卡利斯之前玛丽·罗宾逊也曾担任过总统一职。
  • OK, now is Ireland do most of the people vote? Do you have a high voter turnout?
  • 好,那爱尔兰的大部分民众都会参与投票吗?投票人数多吗?
  • Quite a lot of people do vote. Mainly, older people, though. Younger people don't vote so much.
  • 非常多的人会参与投票。不过主要是年长一些的人。年轻人参与投票的不太多。
  • That's not good.
  • 这可不好。
  • No, not very good at all.
  • 对,一点儿也不好。
  • Yeah, I think in the states it's like 50%, or going down.
  • 嗯,我想美国有50%的年轻人会参加投票,也可能更少一些。
  • It's probably that, but maybe on the lower side.
  • 爱尔兰也差不多,不过投票的年轻人还是占少数。
  • OK, well, thanks Ruth.
  • 好,谢谢你,露丝。
  • No problem.
  • 不客气。


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majority [mə'dʒɔriti]

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n. 多数,大多数,多数党,多数派
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voter ['vəutə]

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n. 投票人,选举人

 
unfriendly [,ʌn'frendli]

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adj. 不友好的;不利的 adv. 不友善地

 
prime [praim]

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