美大選第二場辯論 特朗普重新站穩腳跟

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump traded insults in a bitterly contentious second debate that saw the Republican regain some of his footing following a disastrous two weeks that had threatened to derail his populist campaign for the White House.

希拉里•克林頓(Hillary Clinton)與唐納德•特朗普(Donald Trump)在火藥味兒濃厚的第二場辯論中展開了互相攻擊。共和黨候選人在此次辯論中重新找回了一些立足之地，此前災難性的兩週險些破壞他的民粹主義總統競選活動。

After declining to shake hands as they came on stage, the candidates launched into some of the most acrimonious and personal exchanges seen on a presidential debate stage as they questioned each other’s fitness to serve as president.

兩位候選人站上臺時均拒絕握手，接着他們發表了總統辯論階段出現的一些最激烈和私人化言論，雙方均質疑對方是否適合擔任總統。

Mrs Clinton attacked her rival over the 2005 video where he discussed groPing women in vulgar language, while Mr Trump vowed to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her email scandal.

希拉里就特朗普2005年的視頻對他發起攻擊，特朗普在視頻中用粗俗言語討論猥褻婦女。而特朗普則發誓要任命特別檢察官調查希拉里的電子郵件醜聞。

Mrs Clinton said the video, which emerged on Friday, was more evidence that Mr Trump disrespected women and lacked the temperament to be president. Defending his words as “locker room talk,” Mr Trump denied having assaulted any women, and sought to turn the tables on her husband, Bill Clinton, accusing the former president of being one of the worst abusers of women.

希拉里說上週五公佈的視頻進一步證明特朗普不尊重女性，缺乏總統氣質。特朗普辯解自己那些話是“更衣室聊天”，他否認曾對任何婦女動手，並試圖將矛頭轉向希拉里的丈夫比爾•克林頓(Bill Clinton)，指責這位前總統是最糟糕的婦女猥褻者之一。

“If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse. Mine were words and his were action,” Mr Trump said.

特朗普說：“如果你看看比爾•克林頓，他更糟糕。我只是說說，他卻付諸行動。”

In heated exchanges on subjects from healthcare and tax policy to how the US should respond to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Mrs Clinton repeatedly tried to rile her opponent as she had successfully done in the first debate.

二人就醫療保健、稅收政策，以及美國應如何應對敘利亞人道主義危機等問題展開激烈討論，希拉里不斷試圖激怒她的對手，就如她在第一場辯論中成功做到的。

But Mr Trump was more disciplined than he had been two weeks ago. While Mrs Clinton argued that he was temperamentally unfit to be president, he focused on a core argument for his campaign team: that after 30 years in public service his rival is the epitome of the political status quo.

但特朗普這次比兩週前表現得更有條不紊。雖然希拉里稱他根本不適合擔任總統，他依然鎖定其競選團隊的核心論點：希拉里在擔任了30年公職後，已成爲政治現狀的縮影。

“She doesn’t do anything about anything other than talk. With her, it’s all talk and no action,” Mr Trump said, resurrecting a line he often uses at campaign rallies.

特朗普重彈起他在競選集會上的老調：“她對所有事除了說，什麼都不做。她只會說，卻沒有動作。”

Mr Trump has been under intense pressure since the release on Friday of an Access Hollywood video, in which the former star of The Apprentice boasted in coarse language about trying to have sex with married women, groping women against their will, and claiming that beautiful women liked to kiss him just because he was a star. He also faced criticism after separate audio recordings captured him telling a shock jock that it was fine to call his daughter Ivanka a “piece of ass”.

自上週五一段《走進好萊塢》(Access Hollywood)的視頻曝光後，特朗普一直處於巨大壓力之下。視頻中，這位《學徒》(The Apprentice)節目前明星用粗俗的語言吹噓自己試圖與已婚婦女發生關係，違背意志對她們“動手動腳”，並聲稱，漂亮女人喜歡吻他，就因爲他是一個明星。還有一份曝光他對一名電臺主持人表示可以稱自己的女兒伊萬卡(Ivanka)爲“巨臀美人”的錄音也招致了批評。

He apologised for his vulgar words in a video statement released late on Friday night. But at the same time, he suggested that his words were less egregious than Mr Clinton’s past sexual scandals, and accused Mrs Clinton of bullying her husband’s “victims”.

特朗普在上週五深夜發佈的一段視頻聲明中對自己的下流言論作出了道歉。但同時，他表示，自己的言論不比克林頓昔日的性醜聞出格，並指責希拉里對自己丈夫的“受害者”進行恐嚇。

Shortly before the debate, Mr Trump held a short press conference with three women who have accused Mr Clinton of sexual abuse, including Juanita Broaddrick, who has accused him of rape — a charge that the former president has denied. The women were in the audience for the debate, as were both candidates’ families.

此次辯論開始前不久，特朗普與三名曾指控遭到克林頓性侵的女性一起舉行了簡短的新聞發佈會。她們中包括指控克林頓強姦的胡安妮塔•布羅德里克(Juanita Broaddrick)，但該指控已被這位前總統否認。這幾名女性都坐在此次辯論的觀衆席中，兩位候選人的家人也坐在臺下。

Mr Trump did not suffer significantly from the many controversial comments that he made over the past year, from describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” to denigrating John McCain for being captured after he was shot down over Vietnam. But with only a month until the November 8 election, the video has sparked huge criticism, and forced many Republicans to withdraw their support for their presidential nominee. Several high-profile Republicans have also called on Mr Trump to withdraw from the race.

過去一年，特朗普發表過許多有爭議的言論——從形容墨西哥移民爲“強姦犯”到抹黑約翰•麥凱恩(John McCain)在越南上空遭擊落後被俘——但這些都沒有對他造成太大不利影響。但在距離11月8日大選僅剩一個月之際，這段視頻引發了空前的批評，並迫使許多共和黨人撤回對這位總統候選人的支持。多位共和黨知名人士還呼籲特朗普退出大選。

Mr Trump has fallen in the polls since the first debate when his performance was widely panned. Mrs Clinton skilfully got under his skin over everything from his refusal to release his tax returns to his description of a former Latina beauty queen as “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping”.

自第一次辯論以來，特朗普的民調支持率已經下滑，他在首辯中的表現受到了廣泛批評。希拉里卻巧妙地抓住了特朗普的多處軟肋——從他拒絕公開自己的納稅申報單到曾把一位前拉丁選美皇后稱爲“豬小姐”和“家務小姐”。