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最近政壇「素人(novice)」崛起:4月中,台灣首富郭台銘宣布角逐總統大位,不到一週,東歐國家烏克蘭也選出喜劇演員澤倫斯基(Volodymyr Zelensky)接棒總統。智庫Penta指出,選民「受夠」政治菁英,象徵反全球化勢力抬頭。
【政治素人淺談】
■novice 新手、素人
A:Another political novice just won presidency. Do you want to guess what country?
(又一個政治素人剛贏得總統大選。猜猜看是哪個國家?)
B:I know. It's Ukraine and the president-elect is a comic-turned-leader.
(我知道,是烏克蘭,剛當選的總統原是喜劇演員。)
■tycoon 大亨、巨頭
A:Yeah, the Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou just announced to run for presidency, too, with no experience in politics.
(沒錯,沒有從政經驗的首富郭台銘也要選總統了。)
B:Why do you suppose that is--this trend of novices running for office in the globe?
(你覺得為何會有這股政治素人從政的風潮?)
■corruption 貪污
A:Partly because people are fed up with corruption in the current politics and are hungry for change.
(部分是因為人民受夠了目前政治的貪腐並渴望改變。)
B:Well, let's just hope those people know what they are doing.
(嗯,只能期望那些人知道自己在幹嘛。)
【延伸關鍵字】
1. disillusion:幻想破滅
2. frenzy:狂熱
3. ballot :選票
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