CNN News: 何為美國國情咨文？

 
It's a report card and it's a prognostication. It is the president saying, this is what I would like to do in the coming year.
 
國情咨文報告既是一張成績單，也是一個預言。特朗普表示，這是未來一年我想要做的事情。
 
The State of the Union is essentially a homework assignment from the framers of the Constitution to every president who's lived ever since. The Constitution tells them that they periodically must tell Congress how the country's doing if a president wants to lean hard to one side or hard to the other side, then you might see more political purpose in the State of the Union. Although often it's just a general sense of let's move this direction.
 
《國情咨文》本質上是制憲者給歷任總統(tǒng)布置的家庭作業(yè)。憲法告訴他們，他們必須定期向國會匯報國家的情況，如果總統(tǒng)想要向一方或另一方傾斜，則意味著更多政治意圖。雖然向一方傾斜，有時只是我們的感覺。
 
The whole thing is a huge pageant. The president comes walking in escorted by members of the House and Senate, the Sergeant of Arms announced him and everybody stands and cheers and there's quite a crowd there. Everyone has assigned seating. Right behind the president you will find the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the President of the Senate which will be the vice-president of the United States and then the two parties generally - - generally stay on their side if the aisle.
 
整個過程就像一場盛大的慶典?？偨y(tǒng)在參眾兩院議員的陪同下走了進來，軍士宣布了他的名字，人山人海，每個人都站起來歡呼。每個人都有座位。就在總統(tǒng)后面，你會看到美國眾議院的發(fā)言人和參議院的總統(tǒng)，也就是美國的副總統(tǒng)，兩黨通常會站在他們一邊。
 
You typically have the Supreme Court there, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are there representing the military and the First Lady will also be there usually with some sort of special guest in recent years that will illustrate some point is making.
 
最高法院在那里，參謀長聯(lián)席會議在那里代表軍隊，第一夫人也會在那里，同時通常會有一些特殊的客人，近年來，這一點更得以證明。
 
One of the coolest part of the presidential address is always the missing cabinet member and figuring it out who it's going to be. One member of the cabinet always has to be somewhere else in case something terrible happened. So presumably you could have the Secretary of Agriculture sitting somewhere thinking about hog futures and suddenly he's the president of the United States which would be a huge shock to him.
 
總統(tǒng)演講中最酷的部分之一就是失蹤的內閣成員，以及如何找到合適的人選。內閣中總有一個人要到別的地方去，以防發(fā)生什么可怕的事情。假設你可以讓農業(yè)部長坐在某處思考豬的未來，突然他變成了美國的總統(tǒng)這對他來說是一個巨大的沖擊。
 
 Since the 1960s the opposition has also issued a response, that is someone selected by the opposing party to stand up and refute what the president said or say perhaps we have different ideas on how the government should be conducting itself and where we should be going in the coming year.
 
自20世紀60年代以來,反對派也選人發(fā)表回應,站出來駁斥總統(tǒng)說或說對于政府的管理以及未來一年的走向，我們有不同的想法。