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Lily has reported on the Iran war, Latin America and domestic events. You can contact her at lily.shanagher@telegraph.co.uk or via X @lilyshanagher 12:00pm GMT Donald Trump has made a “bizarre” last pitch to voters before the midterm elections.
在数百万美国人前往投票站参加这场可能导致共和党失去对国会众议院和参议院控制权的选举前几个小时，这位美国总统絮絮叨叨了近一个小时，谈论林肯纪念堂倒影池、对委内瑞拉的打击，以及他称为“共产主义圣战分子”的民主党人。
Hours before millions of Americans head to the polls in an election which could see Republicans lose control of Congress and the Senate, the US president rambled for nearly an hour about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, strikes on Venezuela and Democrats whom he called “communist jihadists”.
在新近翻修完毕、长618米的倒影池前发表讲话时，他声称这是“世界上最大的倒影池，远超其他”，并称这项耗资1600万美元（约1200万英镑）的翻修工程本应是一个“团结所有美国人”的项目。
Giving a speech in front of the newly renovated 618m-long pool, he claimed it was “the biggest anywhere in the world by far” and the $16m (£12m) makeover should be a project that “unites all Americans”.
欧洲和亚洲存在按长度和容积计算都更大的水池，据《经济学人》8月委托YouGov进行的民调，49%的美国人不赞成特朗普的翻修工程。
There are bigger pools by length and volume across Europe and Asia, and 49 per cent of Americans disapproved of Mr Trump’s renovation, according to a YouGov poll by The Economist in August.
“破坏行为前所未有，”特朗普说，指的是未经证实的指控，即破坏者损坏了倒影池。他聘用的承包商和华盛顿美国检察官办公室均表示，问题源于施工质量差。
“The vandalism was unprecedented,” Mr Trump said, referring to unproven accusations that vandals had damaged the pool. Both the contractor he used and the US attorney’s office in Washington have said the issues resulted from poor workmanship.
他还批评了前总统贝拉克·奥巴马和乔·拜登修缮倒影池的努力，并提到了在他们的每个任期内倒影池对公众关闭了多长时间。
He also criticised efforts by former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden to fix the pool and mentioned how long it had been closed to the public during each of their terms.
华盛顿纪念碑倒映在特朗普身后的倒影池中 特朗普随后邀请一名叫格雷格的助手上台展示倒影池基础设施所用管道和接头的照片，而特朗普则描述了它们是如何被替换的。
The Washington Memorial could be seen reflected in the pool behind Mr Trump during his address Mr Trump then invited an aide named Greg to come up on stage and display pictures of pipes and joints used in the pool’s infrastructure, while Mr Trump described how they had been replaced.
BBC北美编辑莎拉·史密斯称这是“中期选举前向选民做出的非常离奇的最后拉票”。
Sarah Smith, the BBC North America editor, called it “a very bizarre last pitch to voters before the crucial midterm elections”.
天空新闻美国记者马克·斯通补充道：“他在一次注定会被载入史册、成为最离奇的中期选举前夜总统亮相之一的活动中说了不少明显不实之言。完全脱离选民想要和关心的东西。”共和党面临周二中期选举惨败，民主党预计将在得克萨斯州和南卡罗来纳州等州与特朗普亲自挑选的候选人势均力敌。
Mark Stone, a Sky News US correspondent, added: “He said quite a few things which are demonstrably untrue in an appearance which will surely go down as one of the most bizarre midterm-eve presidential appearances ever. Totally out of step with what voters want and care about.”The Republicans are facing a landslide defeat in the midterms on Tuesday, with Democrats predicted to run neck-and-neck with candidates hand-picked by Mr Trump in states including Texas and South Carolina.
《纽约时报》最终民调显示，民主党在七个关键摇摆州中的六个占优，包括在堪萨斯州领先。
Final New York Times polls show Democrats have the edge in six of seven battleground states, including a lead in Kansas.
但特朗普的支持率处于历史低位，直到后来才提及将决定其总统任期最后两年走向的选举，此前他一直在长篇大论、重复不已地谈论他那个游泳池。
But Mr Trump, whose ratings are at record lows, did not mention the elections that will determine the last two years of his presidency until later, as he continued talking about the pool in his long and repetitive speech.
一小群记者围着总统，他在新装修好的游泳池旁发表了一场漫无边际的演讲。总统称这次投票“据我判断，是我们有生之年最重要的中期选举”，并将民主党候选人描述为“美国历史上最极端、最危险的一批候选人”。
A small press pack surrounded the president as he gave a rambling speech by the newly renovated pool The president called the vote “the most important midterm, I believe, in our lifetime” and described Democratic candidates as “the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history”.
“民主党想通过选出共产主义圣战分子来毁掉这一切，”他说。“从未有过我们所看到的这种情况——圣战分子、穆斯林兄弟会成员，以及没人能相信我们正在看到的人。”
“The Democrats want to blow all of this up by electing communist jihadists,” he said. “There’s never been anything like what we’re seeing – jihadists and Muslim Brotherhood members and people that nobody can even believe what we’re looking at.”
“通常不管在任总统是谁——共和党或民主党，好或坏，好总统、伟大总统、坏总统——出于某种原因，在任总统在中期选举中不会获胜，”特朗普总结道。“但我们已经全力以赴了。”演讲接近尾声时，他默默站着，手里举着一张长满藻类的游泳池海报，胜利的音乐响起。
“Usually whoever the sitting president is – Republican or Democrat, good or bad, good president, great president, bad – for some reason, the sitting president doesn’t win the midterms,” Mr Trump concluded. “But we gave this a very strong shot.”As the speech wrapped up, he stood silently holding a poster of the algae-clogged pool as triumphant music played.
特朗普举起一张翻新前长满藻类的游泳池照片，称该工程将“团结所有美国人”。随后在福克斯新闻频道，特朗普向肖恩·汉尼蒂吹嘘创造了25万亿美元财富、实现了全球最低药价，并表示美国“再次受到全世界尊重。两年前我们还被嘲笑”。当汉尼蒂试图插话时，他又谈起了伊朗战争。
Mr Trump held up a photo of the algae-covered pool before the renovation that would ‘unite all Americans’ Later on Fox News, Mr Trump boasted to Sean Hannity of creating $25tn worth of wealth, the lowest drug prices in the world and said the US was “respected again all over the world. We were laughed at two years ago”. He then spoke about the Iran war while Mr Hannity tried to interject.
“当我名列选票上时……我们能多获得50%的选票……我请求大家假装我在选票上，”他在列举针对小费、加班费和老年人社会保障的减税政策时重复说道。“如果我们的人去投票，我们将大获全胜，”他补充道。
“When I’m on the ballot... we get 50 per cent more votes... I’m asking everybody to pretend I’m on the ballot,” he repeated as he listed his tax cuts for tips, overtime and social security for seniors. “If our people vote, we win in a landslide,” he added.
在大选临近之际，特朗普的演讲变得越来越随意。他对记者大肆辱骂，对男性候选人的身体发表不当言论，发表冗长演讲，内容常常离题万里且充满谬误。
Mr Trump’s speeches have become increasingly loose in the run-up to the elections. He has dished out crude insults to journalists, made inappropriate comments about male candidates’ bodies and delivered lengthy addresses that are often tangential and riddled with inaccuracies.
《纽约时报》对其演讲的分析发现，与十年前竞选总统时相比，他的演讲更加粗俗和绝对化，公开表达比2016年更加下流、放纵和前言不搭后语。
A New York Times analysis of his speeches found they were more profane and absolutist than when he ran for president a decade ago and that his public communication was more vulgar, uninhibited and incoherent than in 2016.
分析发现，特朗普每1万个词中使用了近15个脏话，而两年前为14个，十年前为6个。
The analysis found Mr Trump used nearly 15 swear words per 10,000 words compared with 14 two years ago and six a decade ago.