地道美语听力练习:拉票广告

Hilary:The election is still two months away and I'm already sick of the political ads. Look at these flyers we got in the mail just today, not to mention the canvassers ringing our doorbell nonstop!
希拉里：离选举日还有两个月，我早已厌倦了各式各样的政治广告。看看今天邮箱里收到的传单，更别提拉选票的人不停地按门铃了！

Bill:It's worse if you watch TV, with attack ad after attack ad. It's gotten completely out of hand.
比尔：如果看电视，感觉会更糟，广告铺天盖地席卷而来。简直像是失控了一般。

Hilary:What happened to campaign finance reform? After years of talking about it, we still have lots of political action committees using soft money to finance media campaigns.
希拉里：竞选筹款方式改革到底起了什么作用？经过这么多年的讨论之后，仍然有许多政治行动委员会利用软资金进行媒体宣传。

Bill:You can't even call them media campaigns anymore. They're more like smear campaigns. I'm fed up with all of this propaganda.
比尔：你甚至不能再把它称为媒体宣传了。它们更像是诽谤宣传。我受够了所有这些宣传。

Hilary:You know what we should do?
希拉里：你知道我们该怎么做吗？

Bill:What?
比尔：怎么做？

Hilary:We should take a vacation until the election is over…in Thailand!
希拉里：我们应该去泰国度假，直到选举结束。