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儒琴英语词汇（English Words and Phrases of the Day）
retail politics
NOUN (in the US) a style of political campaigning in which the candidate attends local events in order to target voters on a small-scale or individual basis. 零售式竞选政治策略
While normally Trump addresses audiences of thousands from behind a podium, Monday morning’s event was more of the true town hall style of retail politics
psephology
noun [ U ] politics specialized /sɪˈfɒl.ə.dʒi/
the study of elections and voting statistics (= numbers):
Students of psephology will recall that the opinion polls before the 1992 election were inaccurate. 选举学
Psephology is not prophecy, and only a rash man would, at this distance venture a prediction. Still, I will say that if the next two years are anything like the last, Donald Trump will win in a landslide. I don’t know what the NeverTrump fraternity will do.
petticoat
used to denote female control of something regarded as more commonly dominated by men.
Jan 06, 2018 · Trump’s Petticoat Government Incapacity in the chief executive is not a new thing in American history.
The election for Mid Ulster’s Westminster seat saw the first straight contest between two women in Northern Ireland politics and was labelled “the petticoat election” by the media.
gubernatorial
adjective /ˌɡuː.bɚ.nəˈtɔːr.i.əl/
relating to a governor (= the official leader of a state in the US)
（美国）州长的，州长职位的
Donald Trump (R) carried all three states holding 2019 gubernatorial elections in the 2016 presidential election. His largest margin of victory was 29.8% in Kentucky…. Usually includes gubernatorial elections and sometimes statewide offices as well. Geo-referenced to US Census Voting Tabulation Districts for comparison to Census data at low levels. Data can be downloaded to a variety of formats.
bien pensant
[ˈbyen pänˌsänt] ADJECTIVE
right-thinking; orthodox.
synonyms:
conventional · mainstream · conformist · accepted · approved · received · [more] 正统的
Jan 28, 2018 · Mr. Trump is simply telling the bien pensant the emperor has no clothes. • Peter Morici is an economist and business professor at the University of Maryland, and a national columnist.
cause célèbre
noun [ C ] /ˌkɑːz selˈeb.rə/
plural causes célèbres /ˌkɔːz.selˈeb.rə/ /ˌkɑːz-/
an event, such as a famous legal trial, that attracts a lot of public attention
引起公众关注的争议事件 ；引起公众关注的诉讼案 (Cambridge)
Nov 25, 2019 · Trump’s decision to wade into the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is the latest example of him intervening to help a conservative cause celebre.
Jul 23, 2018 · The latest progressive cause célèbre is for eliminating America’s border enforcement agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). One can be outraged at how Trump is enforcing America’s immigration laws without thinking that eliminating all border enforcement is a good idea.
turn sth on its head
to cause something to be the opposite of what it was before
使走向对立面；颠倒
These new findings turn the accepted theories on their head. 这些新发现彻底推翻了现今人们已经接受了的理论。（Cambridge）
“That is the reverse of what the National Security Council was created to do at the Cold War’s dawn — to inform and advise the president on national security decisions. But under Mr. O’Brien, the White House’s hostage negotiator when Mr. Trump chose him to succeed John Bolton in September, that dynamic has often been turned on its head.” –New York Times Feb 22, 2020
jitters
noun [ plural ] informal /ˈdʒɪt.əz/ us
a feeling of nervousness that you experience before something important happens
（极度的）紧张不安；恐慌
I always get the jitters the morning before an exam. 考试当天早上我总是很紧张。
figurative The collapse of the company has caused jitters in the financial markets. 这家公司的倒闭导致金融市场发生恐慌。(Cambridge)
Donald Trump blames Federal Reserve for economic jitters. The strength of the economy is a major factor in President Trump’s reelection bid. Jitters on Wall Street and overseas this week were a reminder that it may not be something he can totally rely on.
recalibrate
[ˌrēˈkalibrāt] VERB
calibrate (something) again or differently; to change the way you do or think about something
重新校准; 重新调整; 重新审查
And if our septuagenarian top-tier didn’t recalibrate to the new and different campaign led by Pence, then some of the field’s second tier of younger, fresher faces would have a chance to present themselves as more direct contrasts to the new president. They represent a progressivism without the sharp edges that Warren and Sanders like to brandish. And they can be more attuned than Biden is to contemporary cultural sensitivities.
down-ballot
ADJECTIVE
denoting a contest for a political office that appears in a relatively low position on the electoral ballot, which typically lists contested offices in descending order from national to local.
指在选举投票中处于较低位置的政治职位的竞争，通常按从国家到地方的降序排列。
Sanders Causes Down-Ballot Jitters. Washington Post: “As Sanders builds what could eventually be an insurmountable delegate lead, many Democratic House and Senate candidates are approaching a dramatic shift in their campaigns, as they recalibrate to include praise of capitalism and distance themselves from the national party. Top campaign strategists from both parties view Sanders’s success as a potentially tectonic event, which could narrow the party’s already slim hopes of retaking the Senate majority and fuel GOP dreams of reclaiming the House, which it lost amid a Democratic romp in 2018.”
tectonic
adjective /tekˈtɑː.nɪk/
a very important one that will have major effects.
非常重要的；具有重大影响的
He led the company through a period of tectonic shifts in the movie industry. 他领导公司度过了一段电影业发生了翻天覆地变化的时期。
The process of writing is in the midst of a tectonic change caused by changes in the technology writers use. 写作过程正在经历一场巨大变革，这是由作者们所使用的科技引发的。(Cambridge)
Sep 25, 2019 · The Trump Impeachment Inquiry Is a “Tectonic Shift” for Democrats. How Did We Get Here? “We finally had the straw that broke the camel’s back.” What has happened in America under Trump is a tectonic shift that is generating an unthinkable realignment.
