美国人试过了能言会道的领导人;如今他们要试试笨嘴拙舌的了。
Mr Trump’s oratory may not have been sophisticated but it was effective.
特朗普的演讲术或许不复杂,但很有效。
He repeated emotive, simple words in an almost grammar-free structure.
他以几乎不含语法的结构,重复感情充沛的简单词汇。
That can work; symmetrically, after all, Mr Obama’s rhetorical ease didn’t do him much good once he was in office.
这可能奏效:毕竟,与之形成对比的是,在奥巴马上台后他流畅的措辞并没有多大帮助。
The rapier can be thrilling but the sledgehammer does a job too.
刺剑或许令人胆寒,但大锤也可以取人性命。
Listening to a Trump speech an audience would not follow much of an argument but they’d come away with words like great, tremendous, wonderful and winning ringing in their ears.
听特朗普的演讲,观众可能听不出多少逻辑性,但他们回家时耳边会萦绕着伟大的巨大的极好的和胜利之类的词语。
When Mr Trump spoke at a rally he used a pounding symploce (repetition both at the beginning and the end of his sentences, with a different, emotive abstract noun in the middle): We will make America strong again.
当特朗普在竞选集会上发言时,他利用具有冲击力的首尾词语反复(symploce,每句话都有相同的开头词和结尾词,中间有一个不同的感召性抽象名词):我们将让美国再次强大起来。
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