总统近几个月来频频爆粗口,重新定义了公职人员语言规范。谢丽尔·约翰逊(Cheryl Johnson)对当今政客最不满的一点就是脏话连篇。
President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public office With a lifetime of political memories stretching back to John F Kennedy’s assassination and the Black civil rights struggles of the 1960s, Cheryl Johnson had one complaint above all else about today’s politicians: the swearing.
作为一名住在匹兹堡地区的退休社会工作者,她对从肯尼迪遇刺到60年代民权运动以来的政治记忆历历在目。她说:“政治中充斥着这些咒骂,我们以前从未听过。
“All this cursing in politics, we never heard that before,” said Johnson, a retired social worker living in the Pittsburgh area.
言语的力量非常强大,而这个国家过去45位总统从未用过如此卑劣的语言。”
“Words are very powerful, and the past 45 presidents of this country, have not used such vile language.