巴西总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦与其竞选对手弗拉维奥·博索纳罗在周日这场胜负难料的选举前，正不遗余力地挖掘一切争议来抹黑对方、争取选民。
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his election rival Flavio Bolsonaro are leaving no controversy unturned in their last-ditch efforts to discredit each other and win over voters ahead of Sunday’s nail-biter election.
这场被丑闻和辱骂主导的竞选，几乎无助于缓解这个拉美最大经济体——该地区最后的左翼堡垒之一——深刻的政治两极分化。
A campaign dominated by scandals and insults has done little to ease the deep political polarisation in Latin America’s biggest economy, one of the last major leftist bastions in the region.
这场势均力敌的角逐，将80岁的卢拉与前任极右翼总统雅伊尔·博索纳罗之子对阵，后者是唐纳德·特朗普的亲密盟友，曾支持拉美一波获胜的右翼候选人。特朗普周四表示，他正在“非常密切”地关注巴西选举。
The tight race pits Lula, 80, against the son of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of Donald Trump who has backed a wave of victorious right-wing candidates in Latin America. Trump said Thursday he was watching Brazil’s election “very closely”.
民调预测，此次投票将进入10月25日的第二轮决选，卢拉与弗拉维奥势均力敌。
Opinion polls predict the vote will go to a run-off on October 25, with Lula and Flavio in a dead heat.
“选情胶着但并非停滞不前：最后一周将决定那些仍可能被说服的选民会投向何方，”民调机构Quaest的负责人费利佩·努内斯说。
“The race is tied but not at a standstill: the final week will determine where the voters who can still be swayed will go,” Felipe Nunes, director of the Quaest polling institute, said.
该国1.6亿选民中的许多人对自己的选择感到失望，而当两位领先候选人周四晚间均拒绝出席一场电视辩论时，选民们也失去了观看他们对决的机会。
Many of the nation’s 160 millioned voters are disenchanted with their options and were deprived of a debate between the leading candidates when both declined to attend a televised show on Thursday evening.
32岁的马塞洛·维拉诺瓦是东南部城市茹伊斯迪福拉的一名鱼市经理，他说自己投票给卢拉是因为他是“两害相权取其轻”。
Marcelo Vilanova, 32, a fish market manager in the southeastern city of Juiz de Fora, said he was voting for Lula as the “lesser of two evils”.
“他为我、为我的家人做了好事，”他说，指的是卢拉的社会福利项目。“我对他也有批评。”38岁的卢卡斯·萨莱斯是该市一家手机店老板，他投票给弗拉维奥·博索纳罗，即便“他本人并非最佳选择”，理由是后者承诺严厉打击犯罪——这是本次选举中许多巴西人关心的关键问题。
“He did good things for me, for my family,” he said, referring to Lula’s social welfare programmes. “I have criticisms of him too.”Lucas Sales, 38, a mobile phone shop owner in the city, is voting for Flavio Bolsonaro even if “he himself isn’t the best option,” citing his promise to be tough on crime, a key concern for many Brazilians in this election.
对未决选民的争夺，让双方都时刻警惕，寻找任何可以扭曲利用的机会。
The race for undecided voters has had both sides on alert for anything they can twist to their advantage.
近日，巴西备受爱戴的守护神——阿帕雷西达圣母（Our Lady of Aparecida，形象为黑圣母）成为了舆论焦点，起因是有传言称弗拉维奥·博索纳罗（Flavio Bolsonaro）计划在当选后剥夺其守护神的地位。
In recent days, Brazil’s beloved patron saint, Our Lady of Aparecida, depicted as a Black Madonna, became the focus as rumours erupted that Flavio Bolsonaro planned to strip her of her post if elected.
弗拉维奥对此予以强烈否认，而卢拉则在竞选活动中手持圣母像，宣称“亵渎”圣母是“不可接受的”。选举法院周四下令删除这些“不实”指控的相关帖文。
Flavio issued fierce denials as Lula took to the campaign trail clutching a statue of the saint, declaring that “messing” with her was “unacceptable”. The electoral court ordered Thursday that posts with the “untrue” claims be taken down.
卢拉在天主教徒中往往拥有更多支持，而博索纳罗则得到了日益壮大的福音派群体的支持。
Lula tends to have more support among Catholics while Bolsonaro has the backing of a booming Evangelical population.
随后，当卢拉称男性在进行前列腺检查时表现得像个“懦夫”，而“女性从小就学会了接受触碰”（指妇科检查）时，弗拉维奥·博索纳罗及其支持者立即抓住了这一言论进行攻击。
Next, Flavio Bolsonaro and his supporters pounced when Lula said that men were “cowards” when it comes to getting their prostates examined, while “women learn to receive a touch from a young age”, referring to gynaecological exams.
他这番言论的片段在社交媒体上广泛流传，被解读为影射虐待，弗拉维奥·博索纳罗指责卢拉“性别歧视”。
Clips of his comment circulated widely on social media as if it were an allusion to abuse, and Flavio Bolsonaro accused Lula of being “sexist”.
45岁的服装店员工吉赛尔·索萨（Gisele Sousa）表示：“这简直变成了一场闹剧……我不会把票投给他们中的任何一个。”
“It’s really turned into a circus … my vote won’t go to any of them,” said Gisele Sousa, 45, a clothing shop employee.
在周四的另一场播客节目中，卢拉再次发起攻击，称他确信自己会在第一轮投票中获胜，并表示他的竞争对手甚至没有资格“担任一名大楼管理员”。
In another jab during a podcast Thursday, Lula said he was sure he would win in the first round, over a rival he said was not even qualified “to serve as a building manager”.
这位资深的左翼领导人卢拉正在寻求他的第四个非连续任期，他自诩尽管年事已高，但身体状况比以往任何时候都要好。
Veteran leftist Lula is seeking a fourth non-consecutive term, boasting he is fitter than ever despite his advanced age.
这位前工会领袖在任期内见证了通货膨胀和失业率的下降，并大规模遏制了亚马逊雨林的森林砍伐。
The former union leader has overseen a drop in inflation and unemployment while massively curbing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
然而，选民们仍对高昂的生活成本感到不满，并对暴力和犯罪感到厌倦。
Nevertheless, voters complain about a high cost of living and are fed up with violence and crime.
在选举前夕，卢拉推出了一系列措施以争取选民，包括增加社会福利金，以及禁止让许多人陷入赌博成瘾的体育博彩。
Lula unveiled a flurry of measures in the run-up to the election to win over voters, increasing social welfare payments and banning sports betting that has ensnared many in gambling addiction.
“只有卢拉拥有推行改革所需的政治影响力和公信力，”卢拉所属劳工党主席埃迪尼奥·席尔瓦表示。卢拉将巴西主权作为其竞选活动的核心支柱，并警告特朗普不要“干涉”巴西的选举。
“Only Lula has the political clout and credibility to carry out reforms,” Edinho Silva, president of Lula’s Workers’ Party, said Lula made Brazilian sovereignty a central plank of his campaign, warning Trump not to “meddle” in his country’s elections. Flavio Bolsonaro, 45, has remained a tough foe for Lula, even as it emerged he was under investigation for corruption over the financing of the biopic about his father.
45岁的弗拉维奥·博索纳罗一直是卢拉的强劲对手，尽管有消息披露，他正因围绕其父亲传记电影融资的腐败问题而接受调查。
He was forced during the campaign to admit he had asked jailed banker Daniel Vorcaro, at the heart of one of Brazil’s largest financial fraud cases, to bankroll the film.
在竞选期间，他被迫承认曾要求身陷囹圄的银行家丹尼尔·沃尔卡罗为这部电影提供资金，而沃尔卡罗正是巴西最大金融欺诈案之一的核心人物。
Bolsonaro was also confident of a first-round win, vowing that Lula would be “ousted from the presidency” on Sunday.
博索纳罗还对首轮获胜充满信心，誓言卢拉将在周日“被逐出总统职位”。
By Agence France-Presse