美员工罢工或危机金里奇参与竞选

短语讲解：

1. The staff departures came shortly after Gingrich and his wife returned from a cruise vacation in Greece.

return from从…返回
例句：We have just returned from a trip to Europe.
我们刚从欧洲旅行回来。

2. "We had a strategic disagreement about how to run a campaign like that because there have been very few campaigns that are solutions-oriented and that are oriented to every single American," Gingrich said.

be oriented to 面向…
例句：You are kindly invited to visit our show which is oriented to the Oceania market.
真诚邀请您莅临我们针对大洋洲市场举行的展览会。

3. Political experts say the mass staff defections are a serious blow to the Gingrich campaign, which has had numerous stumbles from the beginning.

from the beginning从一开始
例句：He was biased against the plan from the beginning.
他从一开始就对这个计划有偏见。

4. "To have the entire leadership of a campaign walk out of a door simultaneously this early in a campaign is really uNPRecedented, so it's really damaging to Mr. Gingrich," West noted.

walk out of 从…走出
例句：She was about to walk out of the door when the telephone rang.
电话铃响时她正要出门。
be damaging to 对…有伤害
例句：Smoking can is damaging to your health.
吸烟对身体有害。

5. Gingrich began his presidential campaign as one of the better known Republican contenders because of his tenure as U.S.

because of 因为, 由于
例句：I came back because of the rain.
因为下雨, 所以我回来了。

6. But after he launched his campaign earlier this year, Gingrich quickly angered conservatives when he criticized a Republican congressional proposal to revamp the popular government health care program for the elderly known as Medicare.

known as被认为是，被称为
例句：He is known as a gifted orator. 
众所周知,他是一位天才演说家。

7. Two of the Gingrich aides who quit previously worked for Texas Governor Rick Perry.

work for为…而工作
例句：How long have you been working for this firm?
你为这家公司效力多久了?

8. Perry is a favorite with conservative activists within the Republican Party and after initially saying he wasn't interested in joining the presidential race, now says he is reconsidering

be interested in对…感兴趣
例句：We are interested in computer.
我们对计算机感兴趣。

9. The turmoil in the Gingrich campaign comes on the heels of new public opinion polls that suggest former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney remains the man to beat in the Republican presidential field

on the heels of紧跟着；紧接着
例句：The recession trod on the heels of the oil crisis.
经济萧条紧随着石油危机而来。

10. "And so all these candidates are going to have to try to figure out who becomes the alternative to Mitt Romney because he is so well known and has won a race before and has resources and organization, and I think we are going to have a wide open race here," Rothenberg said.

be going to 要,会,将要
例句：My whole life seems to be going to pot.
我整个的人生似乎就要崩溃了。
figure out 弄明白，理解
例句：I didn't figure out how to do it.
我不知道该怎么办。