在全球最顶级的奶牛竞技舞台上，一位加拿大少女与她“最心爱的奶牛”在美国本土斩获两项大奖。
On the most elite stage in the world of competitive dairy, a Canadian teenager and her "favourite cow" scored two major wins while on U.S. soil.
没听说过奶牛竞技？其实这可是件大事。在威斯康星州麦迪逊市举办的世界奶牛博览会上，哪怕只赢得一次胜利，对养殖户及其奶牛而言都意义非凡；能连赢两次更是能彻底改变他们的命运。
Never heard of competitive dairy? Let me assure you, it's a really big deal. One win — let alone two — at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisc., can be life changing for farmers and their cows.
这一胜利能让奶牛的市场价值提升数万美元，其后代的价值也会随之水涨船高。当然，这其中还包含着民族自豪感的因素——尤其是在当前加拿大与美国正处于贸易战的背景下。
It can boost the value of an animal by tens of thousands of dollars. Future offspring can become more valuable too. And of course, there's an element of national pride, especially when Canada and the U.S. are locked in a trade war.
阿利森·多伊龙是来自魁北克省卡普桑特的一名16岁高中生。她与自己最心爱的奶牛合影时满脸笑容：这头名叫阿罗琳·登普西·埃拉的5岁奶牛，在国际青年荷斯坦牛展上摘得桂冠。“埃拉”是它的昵称。
Alyson Doiron, a 16-year-old high school student from Cap-Sante, Que., glows as she poses for photos with her aforementioned favourite cow — Arolene Dempsey Ella, who goes by "Ella" for short, was the five-year-old cow awarded the top prize at the International Junior Holstein Show. "She's an easy cow to work with.
“它特别好相处，我们可喜欢它了，”多伊龙对加拿大广播公司记者说道。
We love her so much," Doiron told CBC News.
周日，在博览会上埃拉被授予这一殊荣时，多伊龙又欢呼又落泪。虽然这是一场全球性盛会，但出于健康与安全规定，实际参赛的奶牛均来自加拿大和美国的牧场。
Doiron cheered and cried as she was given the prestigious honour on Ella's behalf, at the Expo on Sunday. Even though this is a global gathering, the actual competitions are between animals from Canadian and American farms, due to health and safety regulations.
“这对我意义重大，”她说道，同时向自己的家乡魁北克省点头致意，“这充分证明了魁北克省的奶牛展水平确实非常出色。”周日的胜利只是多伊龙与埃拉接下来精彩一周的开端。
"This means a lot to me," she said with a nod to her home province. "It just proves that in Quebec, the [cow] show is really really strong," she said. The win on Sunday was just the start of a very big week for Doiron and Ella.
令部分美国人介意的敏感点：在奶牛评审场地的高处，悬挂着加拿大、美国和墨西哥的国旗。这一景象如同牛粪的气味一般随处可见，时刻提醒着人们：跨境竞争与合作在这一领域备受重视。
Sore point for some Americans In the arena where the cows are judged, Canadian, American and Mexican flags hang in the rafters. It is a reminder, as constant as the smell of manure, that cross-border competition and co-operation are valued in this space.
“我认为我们能参加这场赛事意义重大，”布隆丹种牛公司的执行高级经理兼合伙人布赖恩·卡斯卡登说道。这家总部位于魁北克的奶牛企业同时经营牛奶生产和人工授精业务。
"I think it's important for us to be here," said Brian Carscadden, the executive senior manager and part owner of Blondin Sires, a Quebec-based dairy company that has milk production and artificial insemination operations.
“如果你想想威斯敏斯特犬展，情况也类似。能在那儿夺冠的狗狗肯定价值不菲。对奶牛来说也是同样的道理。”卡斯卡登和他的团队从圣普拉西德出发，驱车1500多公里抵达麦迪逊，随行的还有25头装在拖车里的奶牛。他表示，目前他的生意尚未受到贸易战的影响，在博览会上的交谈中也很少谈及这个话题。
"If you think of the Westminster Dog Show, it's not unlike that. If you can win that, you've got a dog that's worth some money. It's the same here with your cow." Carscadden and his team drove more than 1,500 kilometres from St. Placide to Madison, with 25 cows in trailers in tow. He says his business has not been affected by the trade war yet, and that it does not come up often in conversations at the Expo.
“美国朋友们偶尔会开些玩笑，”他说，“也会有些带刺的冷嘲热讽……不过这也让气氛更有趣些。”
"There's jokes here and there," from his American friends, he said, along with "the odd snide remark … that makes things interesting."
“我总是告诫加拿大的同行们：这不是我们的国家，也不是我们的政治议题，千万别谈论。”相比之下，博览会上的美国人则直率得多。
"I always advise my Canadian colleagues that it's not our country, it's not our politics, don't talk about it." Americans at the Expo are far more direct.
对不少人而言，贸易战是个敏感话题，尤其是那些将美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的各项经济政策与生活成本上涨联系起来的选民。
The trade war is a sore point for some, including voters who are connecting dots between U.S. President Donald Trump's broad economic agenda and increases in the cost of living.
“食品价格没降，汽油价格也没降。显然所有物价都在上涨，这让我日子很难过，”宝拉·劳弗说道。
"There is no lowering of grocery prices, no lowering of gas prices. I mean obviously it's all going higher and it makes me struggle," said Paula Lawver.
她是印第安纳州一个农业社区的单身母亲，这次正带着儿子所在高中的一群学生一同参加博览会。她自称是秉持保守价值观的保守派选民，但并不认为自己是共和党人。
She's a single mom from a farming community in Indiana, and is at the Expo with a group of students from her son's high school. She describes herself as a conservative voter with conservative values, but does not consider herself a Republican.
她称与加拿大的贸易争端“毫无道理”，并表示这会影响自己今年11月中期选举的投票选择。劳弗明确表示，自己不会支持那些支持加征关税和挑起贸易战的候选人。
She calls the dispute with Canada "nonsense," and says it will influence her vote in the midterm elections this November. Lawver says she will not support candidates in favour of tariffs and trade wars.
来自纽约州的农民塞思·穆克也表示，自己或许也会重新考虑中期选举的投票意向。
Seth Muck, a farmer from New York state, says he too may reconsider how he votes in the midterms.
他表示，过去自己一直投票给“坚定的共和党人、极端保守派”。但在切身感受到特朗普的全球贸易政策带来的影响后，他正在考虑支持那些主张“相对温和政策”的候选人。这位农场主指出，自己的经济作物和农资产品受冲击最大，如今化肥价格已是去年的两倍。不过他仍寄望于经济状况能有所好转。“或许这需要一点时间……就像撕掉创可贴那样吧，”他说道。
He says in the past he's voted "hard, hard Republican, hard conservative." But after feeling the impact of Trump's global trade agenda, he's considering backing candidates with a "bit more moderate-type agenda." Muck says his cash crops and farm inputs have been affected the most, noting that the price of fertilizer is double what he paid last year. Though he still holds out hope that economic conditions could improve. "Perhaps it's going to take a bit … like ripping off a Band-Aid," he said.
即便是在那些愿意对特朗普及其经济政策多些耐心的人当中，CBC新闻也未能发现任何一位在展会上支持那些导致加美关系陷入僵局的激烈言论的美国人。
“我觉得这种言论毫无必要、毫无意义且幼稚至极，双方都是如此，”来自威斯康星州的退休农民加里·克劳说。
Even among those willing to be more patient with Trump and his economic vision, CBC News did not find any Americans at this Expo supportive of the heated rhetoric that has upended the Canada-U.S. relationship.
另一位威斯康星州退休农民约翰·加尔戈夫斯基则对这一切感到困惑不已。“我只能无奈地举起双手，心想‘我们为什么要这么做呢？’”加尔戈夫斯基并不支持特朗普政府，他还表示，自特朗普重新执政以来国家的运行方式更坚定了他原本的立场。“现在真是糟糕的时期，”他说道。
"I think it's needless, pointless and childish. Both sides," said Gary Craugh, a retired farmer from Wisconsin. 'You will pay': Trump adviser warns Canada not to 'interfere' with U.S. midterms September 29 Duration Another retired farmer from Wisconsin, John Galgowski, says he's baffled by it all. "I throw up my hands and go, 'Why are we doing this?'"
这些选民所描述的自身遭遇，与特朗普政府对这一局势的描述大相径庭。
Galgowski does not support the Trump administration, and says the way the country has been run since Trump returned to office has only reaffirmed his position. "It's just bad times," he said.
特朗普称“糟糕透顶”的加拿大正在“接受教训”，贸易争端持续升级。随着贸易战愈演愈烈，美国对加拿大进口摩托车、乳制品及酒类产品实施的禁令正式生效。
The way these voters described their experience is very different from how the Trump administration is framing the moment.
在距离展会约120公里外的密尔沃基，美国贸易代表杰米森·格里尔主持了G20贸易部长会议。他在会上毫无歉意地力推“美国优先”的贸易政策，并声称这一战略已取得成效。“如今，美国劳动者及其家庭的生活水平比特朗普总统上任前有了显著提升，”格里尔照着事先准备好的讲稿说道。
Trump says 'very bad' Canada is being 'taught a little lesson' as trade action escalates U.S. bans on imported Canadian motorcycle, dairy, alcohol products take effect as trade war drags on About 120 kilometres from the Expo, in Milwaukee, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer hosted a gathering of G20 trade ministers, where he unapologetically advocated for the "America first" trade agenda, arguing that the strategy is working. "American workers and their families are better off now than they were before President Trump took office," Greer said as he read from prepared remarks.
格里尔为特朗普政府的政策辩护，这表明短期内政府并无改变方针的打算。这意味着与加拿大的贸易摩擦还将持续下去。
Greer's defence of the Trump administration's policies suggests there are no plans to change course anytime soon. Which means the trade war with Canada is poised to grind on.
埃拉的高光时刻：尽管加美两国间的紧张关系仍未缓解，但加拿大仍在世界乳制品博览会上再添一项胜利。
Ella's big day Even if the country-to-country tensions won't go away, Canada did score one more win at the World Dairy Expo.
周五，多伊龙带着埃拉骄傲地走上赛场，向评委们展示这头奶牛。埃拉此次角逐的是本次展会最重要的奖项之一——“顶级青年组冠军”。
On Friday, Doiron proudly paraded Ella in front of the judges on the arena floor, competing for one of the week’s largest titles: Supreme Junior Show Champion.
这一时刻原本差点未能实现。多伊龙称自己从小悉心照料埃拉，可父母却突然把这头奶牛卖掉了，这让她伤心欲绝。
It's a moment that almost didn’t happen. Doiron says she helped raise Ella, but when her parents unexpectedly sold the cow, she was devastated.
“我当时气坏了，因为埃拉就是我最喜欢的奶牛，”她回忆起小时候如何喜欢埃拉身上的每一块斑纹。
"I was so mad at my parents, because she was just the cow I liked," she said, recalling the way she loved all of Ella's spots as a kid.
多伊龙下定决心要重新找回自己最爱的奶牛。机会出现后，尽管遭到父母反对，她还是买回了埃拉。“我一定要把这头奶牛带回家，”她对母亲说道。这场重逢显然是命中注定。
Doiron was determined to be reunited with her favourite cow, and when the opportunity arose, she re-purchased Ella, despite objections from her parents. "I need to bring this cow home," she told her mom. The reunion was clearly meant to be.
在座无虚席的赛场上，多伊龙与埃拉的高光时刻终于到来——埃拉荣获“顶级青年组冠军”，这也是整个加拿大的荣耀。
In front of a packed arena, Doiron and Ella’s big moment finally arrived — the cow was named Supreme Junior Show Champion, a victory for all of Canada.