地道美語聽力播客591:缺席選舉

Khaled: Are you going to the polling place or are you voting by absentee ballot again?

卡勒德：你準備去投票所嗎?或者是再投缺席票?

Bernice: I always vote with an absentee ballot so I can vote in the comfort of my own home and in my own time. In fact, I’ve already mailed in my ballot.

柏妮絲：我總是投缺席票，那樣我就可以舒服的在家投票，享用自己的時間。實際上，我已經(jīng)郵寄出了我的選票。

Khaled: Good for you. Which candidate did you vote for in the governor's race?

卡勒德：能這樣不錯，那州長競選中你選的誰?

Bernice: I didn’t vote for either of the bozos that are running. I voted for a write-in candidate.

柏妮絲：我沒有選參加競選的那些家伙們，我選了一個選民自填的候選人。

Khaled: A write-in candidate? There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that a write-in candidate is going to win this election.

卡勒德：一個選民自填的候選人?選民自填的候選人毫無希望競選成功。

Bernice: That may be so, but I have to vote with my conscience, and I can’t bring myself to vote for either of those people. Have you voted?

柏妮絲：可能會這樣，但是我憑自己良心選舉，我不能讓自己去選那些人。你選了嗎?

Khaled: Not yet. I’m going to vote at the polls on Election Day. I want more time to think about whom to vote for and to read up on the ballot measures. There are a lot of them this time.

卡勒德：還沒有呢，我準備在選舉當(dāng)天再選，我想多花點時間思考一下選誰，仔細研究一下再選，這次參加選舉的人很多。

Bernice: Yeah, but the governor’s race is the only thing I care about. I can’t stand the thought of having either of those bozos as the next governor.

柏妮絲：是啊，州長選舉是我唯一關(guān)心的事情。我一想到這些人中的任何一個人要當(dāng)下一屆州長我都受不了。

Khaled: Just out of curiosity, who did you write in as a candidate?

卡勒德：我就是好奇，你到底填的誰做候選人?

Bernice: You.

柏妮絲：你啊!

Khaled: Me?! You’re crazy. I don’t want to be governor.

卡勒德：我?你瘋了啊，我不想當(dāng)州長。

Bernice: It was either you or me, and I’d rather not be a candidate and have to be in the company of those bozos.

柏妮絲：不是你就是我，與其和那些家伙們一起作伴，我更愿意不做這個候選人。