前总统乔·拜登在一次新采访中回顾了他在2024年与特朗普总统的辩论表现，那场辩论当时引发了人们对他年龄以及能否再担任一届总统的担忧。
Former President Joe Biden reflected in a new interview on his 2024 debate performance against President Trump, which sparked concerns at the time about his age and ability to serve another term in the Oval Office.
这位前国家元首在接受《人物》杂志采访时说：“你看，我不知道有谁在辩论中没犯过错。
对我来说，那场辩论没什么大不了的。”
此次采访是在他的回忆录《Promise Me, America》下周出版前进行的。
“Look, I don’t know anybody who hasn’t made a mistake in a debate. To me, it was not very consequential,” the former head-of-state said in an interview with People ahead of the release of his memoir, “Promise Me, America,” next week.
他继续说道：“首先，我以为还会有另一场辩论，但并没有。
“First of all, I thought there’d be another debate, which there wasn’t,” he continued.
不过，尽管没有另一场辩论，这件事也没有困扰我，因为它无关紧要。”
“But notwithstanding the fact that there wasn’t another debate, it didn’t disturb me because it wasn’t consequential.”
2024年7月，在亚特兰大举行的CNN总统辩论中，拜登说话结巴，似乎忘记了自己在说什么。
During the 2024 CNN presidential debate in Atlanta in July 2024, Biden stumbled over his words and appeared to lose track of what he was saying.
辩论当天，他随后不久对ABC新闻的乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯说，他“感觉糟透了”。
He told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos shortly after that he was “feeling terrible” on the day of the debate.
在面临党内要求他退出连任竞选的巨大压力后，这位前总统一个月后退出竞选，并支持时任副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯。
After facing immense pressure from within his own party to drop his reelection bid, the former president bowed out of the race a month later and endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
今年早些时候，吉尔·拜登在她的回忆录《View From the East Wing》出版前接受CBS新闻的丽塔·布雷弗采访时回顾了那一刻。
Earlier this year, Jill Biden looked back on the moment in an interview with CBS News’s Rita Braver ahead of the release of her own memoir, “View From the East Wing.”
这位前第一夫人说：“我看着的时候想，‘天哪，他中风了。’
“As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my god, he’s having a stroke,” the former first lady said.
这把我吓坏了。”
“And it scared me to death.”
离开白宫四个月后，乔·拜登宣布他被诊断出患有一种侵袭性前列腺癌。
Four months after leaving office, Joe Biden announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
对于他直到离开白宫后才公开诊断结果的指责，这位前总统不予理会。
The former president brushed aside accusations that he hid his diagnosis until after leaving the White House.
他对《人物》杂志说：“我没有那样做。
我一发现、一知道是怎么回事，就让大家知道了。
“I didn’t do that. We let the public know when I found out, when I knew what was going on,” he told People.
我认为，作为总统，国家领导人让民众知道他们也会经历许多美国民众正在经历的同样的事情，这很重要……”我根本没有隐瞒。”
“I think it’s important for a national leader, as President, to let people know they go through some of the very same things that a lot of American people are going through…. I wasn’t hiding it at all.”
此外，乔·拜登表示，如果他当时知道自己的诊断结果，就不会寻求连任。
Additionally, Joe Biden said he would have not sought another term if he’d been aware of his diagnosis at the time.
“如果我知道自己感觉不舒服是因为得了癌症，我就会辞职——我就不会继续参选，因为我认为一个80岁的人不应该竞选[总统]，但当时并不是这种情况，”他说。
“If I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer, I would have resigned — I would have not gone forward because I don’t think an 80-year-old man should be running for [president], but that wasn’t the case,” he said.
他还表示，他相信“从客观角度来看，我是最适合这份工作的人”。
He added that he believes “on an objective basis, I was the best person to do the job.”