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B1Politics & SocietyOct 6, 2016

What Washington Politicians Are Really Saying

ワシントンの政治家たちが本当に言っていること

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My name is Chuck McCutcheon.
私の名前はチャック・マカチオンです。
I'm a reporter who covers politics.
私は政治を取材する記者です。
I've been covering Washington D.C. since 1995.
1995年からワシントンD.C.を取材しています。
I'm the co-author of Dog Whistles, Walkbacks, and Washington Handshakes.
私は『Dog Whistles, Walkbacks, and Washington Handshakes』の共著者です。
Politics and the way that politicians talk really, really fascinates me.
政治と政治家の話し方には本当に、本当に魅了されます。
I would just say to my good friend from Wisconsin, "My good friend" is an extremely common expression in the U.S.
ウィスコンシン出身の良き友人にこう言いたいだけです、「私の良き友人」は米国では非常に一般的な表現です。
Congress.
議会。
People of both parties will say this all the time during debates in the House and Senate, as a way of showing politeness to their colleagues.
両党の人々は、下院と上院での討論中に同僚への礼儀を示す方法として、この言葉をいつも使います。
The problem is that most of the time, those people are not their good friends, and it's usually a thinly disguised attempt at concealing their hatred for somebody.
問題は、ほとんどの場合、それらの人々は良き友人ではなく、通常は相手への憎しみを隠すための薄っぺらな試みだということです。
And I'm afraid the election is going to be rigged.
そして選挙が不正操作されるのではないかと心配しています。
I have to be honest.
正直に言わなければなりません。
Because I think my side was rigged.
なぜなら私の側が不正をされたと思うからです。
If I didn't win by massive landslides, rigged has been a very popular word in this presidential election.
圧倒的な地滑り的勝利で勝たなければ、不正は今回の大統領選挙で非常に人気のある言葉になっています。
Donald Trump uses the word rigged all the time to talk about what he thinks might be the outcome of the election results.
ドナルド・トランプは、選挙結果がどうなるかについての考えを話す際に、rigged（不正操作された）という言葉をいつも使います。
It's a way of trying to mobilize people and stir up resentment at the political process.
それは人々を動員し、政治プロセスへの恨みをかき立てようとする方法です。
There are steps we can take that improve gun safety and further the prevention of violence by guns.
銃の安全性を向上させ、銃による暴力を防止するために私たちが取れる対策があります。
And today, I am proposing what I consider to be common sense approaches.
そして今日、私が常識的なアプローチだと考えるものを提案します。
Common sense is a word that politicians often use, try to make it sound that their proposals should make sense to everyone, and that therefore they should be easily passed.
常識というのは政治家がよく使う言葉で、自分の提案が誰にとっても納得できるように聞こえさせ、だからこそ簡単に可決されるべきだと印象づけようとします。
Hillary Clinton uses this word quite often in the context of gun control legislation.
ヒラリー・クリントンは銃規制法案の文脈でこの言葉をかなり頻繁に使います。
She says that she doesn't want to ban guns, but she wants to take a "quote unquote" common sense approach to restricting various aspects of guns.
彼女は銃を禁止したいわけではないが、銃のさまざまな側面を制限するために「いわゆる」常識的なアプローチを取りたいと言っています。

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