在缅因州中部海岸经历了数十年的potluck聚餐和桨板冲浪后，不断升级的愤怒与抗议让最高法院首席大法官比以往任何时候都更加孤立。
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
对于这片偏远的缅因州海岸线上的许多人来说，这里的每一天看起来都像是一幅由光影和水色构成的新鲜画作，首席大法官约翰·G·罗伯茨（John G. Roberts Jr.）只是“约翰”。约翰在距离波特兰东北约90英里、没有汽车且只有大约二十多栋房屋的休珀岛（Hupper Island）上度过了20多个夏天。约翰与邻居们互帮互助，并忍受着更有经验的船长对他的划船技术的调侃。
To many people on this remote stretch of Maine coastline, where every day looks like a fresh painting made of light and water, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is just “John.”John, who has spent over 20 summers on Hupper Island, a refuge about 90 miles northeast of Portland with no cars and barely two dozen homes. John, who swaps favors with neighbors and endures jokes about his boating skills from more experienced operators.
约翰经常在克莱德港（Port Clyde）的码头上度过许多早晨——那是隔水与小岛相望、邮票大小的小镇，手里拿着半咖啡因咖啡和肉桂卷。
John, who has spent many mornings on the dock in Port Clyde, the postage-stamp-sized town across the water from the island, nursing a half-caff and a cinnamon bun.
根据对20多名居民整个夏天的采访，在很长一段时间里，首席大法官在这里的生活是一段关于potluck晚餐和轻松友谊的故事。邻居们为他的职位感到高兴，但与他关于这方面的交流总是简短而轻松。在很久以前的一次年度夏季派对上，他曾参与腰旗橄榄球赛，然后通过高呼“Oyez, oyez, oyez, lobsters are ready（静听，静听，静听，龙虾煮好了）”来宣布晚餐开始。
For a long time, the chief justice’s life here was a story of potluck dinners and easy friendships, according to a summer of interviews with more than two dozen residents. Neighbors reveled in his position but kept exchanges with him about it brief or light. At a long-ago annual summer party, he used to participate in touch football, then call dinner to order by proclaiming: “Oyez, oyez, oyez, the lobsters are ready.”
但近年来，随着最高法院重塑了美国人的生活并将更多权力交给了特朗普总统，一种非常个人化的愤怒开始在这里针对这位首席大法官滋生，改变了他的度假生活。
But in recent years, as the Supreme Court has reshaped American life and handed more power to President Trump, a very personal form of anger has been rising here at the chief justice, transforming his getaways.
他长久以来广为人知的夏季度假，如今成为了争论的焦点。邻居们甚至下水抗议他。自称为“皮划艇激进分子”的人们组成船队，面向他的岛上住宅，手里举着防水标语表达他们的失望。当地的一位报纸专栏作家甚至建议镇上的人向他竖中指。
His summer retreats, long a well-known fact, are now a source of debate. Neighbors have taken to the water to protest him. Calling themselves “kayak-tivists,” they form flotillas facing his island home, holding waterproof signs conveying their disappointment. A local newspaper columnist recommended that people in town give him the finger.