nationalism(Nationalism is the real devil)

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nationalism(Nationalism is the real devil)

?? A CHEER goes up as Jens Maier takes the podium at a packed sports club in Dresden. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate for the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, rails againstAngela Merkel’s refugee policies: “Who has to live with these ‘new citizens’? Whose children have to go to school with their children? Who produces the wealth they feed off?” Germany, he concludes, needs MPs “imbued with a sense of responsibility towards their own people” who can “show up the incompetent establishment”.

1） go up 英 [ɡ?u ?p] 美 [ɡo ?p] 上升;响起;（幕布）升起;破产

I fancy Leicester to go up.

我认为莱斯特队会晋级。

短语：go up to 英 [ɡ?u ?p tu:] 美 [ɡo ?p tu] 入…，进…

go up and down 英 [ɡ?u ?p ænd daun] 美 [ɡo ?p ?nd da?n] 升降

go up in flames 毁于大火;突然地和完全的结束，破灭，毁于一旦

go up the ladder 英 [ɡ?u ?p ð? ?læd?] 美 [ɡo ?p ði ?læd?] 爬得很高，飞黄腾达，官运亨通

2） rail against 英 [reil ??ɡenst] 美 [rel ??ɡenst] 反对…，严厉责骂…

Both rail against oil companies, drug companies, credit-card companies& the usual suspects.

他们都抱怨石油公司、药品公司和银行&这是免不了的。

3） feed off 英 [fi:d ?f] 美 [fid ?f] 依靠…提供的东西维持（生活），从…中取食

When fresh food and water are not available, the camel can feed off its hump.

在缺乏新鲜食物和水时，骆驼能以自己的驼峰为营养来源。

4） imbue with 英 [?m?bju: wið] 美 [?m?bju w?ð] 灌输

About the Image-his image was a personal project, I wanted to paint an exotic open desertlandscape and imbue with a sense of mystery.

这是张个人作品，我想绘制一副带有异国情调的开阔沙漠景观，并融入强烈的神秘感。

?? At the federal election in 2013 the just founded AfD narrowly missed the 5% vote share required to make it into the Bundestag. Since then it has ditched free-market Euroscepticism for anti-Islam nationalism as its guiding ideology. Though it has fallen back from highs of around 15% in polls following the refugee crisis, its strategy of polarisation and provocation has allowed it to reach popularity ratings of around 9% today. If that holds, the AfD would win more than 60 of the Bundestag’s 600-odd seats at the election on September 24th.

?? Candidate lists suggest that members of such a Bundestag group will be “very loud and mostly from the right wing of the party”, observes Melanie Amann, a journalist and expert on the party. It would probably be dominated by Alexander Gauland (pictured), the traditionalist whose vision of the AfD as a pure-protest outfit prevailed over more conciliatory alternatives at its annual conference in April.

1） prevail over 英 [pri?veil ??uv?] 美 [pr??vel ?ov?] 战胜; 压倒;<正>打败;覆盖

Political and personal ambitions are starting to prevail over economic interests.

政治抱负和个人野心开始压倒经济利益。

2） conciliatory 英 [k?n?s?li?t?ri] 美 [k?n?s?li?t?:ri] adj.调和的;安抚的;说服的;调解的

The next time he spoke he used a more conciliatory tone

他再次开口时使用了更具安抚性的语气。

?? The party’s record in state parliaments is another indicator. It now has seats in 13 of Germany’s 16 states. According to a study by the Otto Brenner Stiftung, a thinktank, AfD MPs are typically noisy and fractious, but legislatively active. In SaxonyAnhalt they are so volatile that the speaker has had a button installed enabling him to switch off their microphones. The AfD’s legislators in Baden-Württemberg fell out and split into two rival parliamentary groups, an illustration of the furious battles over ideology and power that rage between different wings. The researchers found that the party’s MPs submit motions at a relatively high rate, most often on matters like crime and migration.

1） fractious 英 [?fræk??s] 美 [?fræk??s] adj.易怒的，急躁的

Nancy was in a fractious mood

南希情绪烦躁。

2） volatile 英 [?v?l?ta?l] 美 [?vɑ:l?tl] adj.易变的，不稳定的;（液体或油）易挥发的;爆炸性的;快活的，轻快的

There have been riots before and the situation is volatile

以前曾发生过暴乱，现在局势不太稳定。

短语：volatile matter 英 [?v?l?tail ?mæt?] 美 [?vɑl?tl ?mæt?] 挥发物

volatile content 英 [?v?l?tail ?k?ntent] 美 [?vɑl?tl ?kɑn?t?nt] 挥发物含量

volatile market 英 [?v?l?tail ?mɑ:kit] 美 [?vɑl?tl ?mɑrk?t] 不稳定的行情

volatile memory 英 [?v?l?tail ?mem?ri] 美 [?vɑl?tl ?m?m?ri] 非永久性存储器，易失存储器

3） switch off 英 [swit? ?f] 美 [sw?t? ?f] 关闭;切断;（使）没兴趣;使停止谈话

She switched off the coffee-machine

她关掉了咖啡机。

4） fell out 英 [fel aut] 美 [f?l a?t] 争吵，发生

She fell out with her husband

她与丈夫闹翻了。

?? Most mainstream members of the Bundestag will shun their new AfD colleagues. In some state parliaments some MPs even refuse to shake hands with the party’s representatives. In March the Bundestag moved to pre-emptively block Wilhelm von Gottberg, a 77-year-old AfD candidate, from assuming the honorary title of “father of the house” by changing the definition of the term from “oldest member” to “longest-serving member”. Whether being spurned by the establishment will hinder or help the party is debatable.

?? Will the AfD change Germany once it is in the Bundestag? Fully 93% of Germans (and 64% of the party’s voters) say they have not noticed its impact in state parliaments. Yet its presence may require the next federal government to build broader coalitions of mainstream legislators to pass contentious laws. And ministers might word legislation on sensitive topics more loosely to avoid conflict, suggests Ms Amann. That Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) are now talking tough on security and decking out their campaign with the national flag is an early hint of the AfD’s indirect influence.

1） deck out 英 [dek aut] 美 [d?k a?t] 妆饰；打扮；装扮

The cab was decked out with multi-coloured lights

出租车上装饰了五颜六色的彩灯。

?? It is not unthinkable that the AfD might one day enter government. (The equivalent of a CDU-AfD coalition may run Austria from October.) But to get to that point the AfD must reconcileits big internal differences, marginalise its hardliners and find a balance between provocationand respectability. Joining the Bundestag may make those tasks harder, not easier.