VOA常速英语:New Yorkers Look to ‘Subway Therapy’ Post-election(翻译)

Following last week’s election of Donald Trump,many New York City locals could be seen across subway platforms,wearing variations of the same look:grief and disbelief.Those feelings evolved into conversation, including beneath the city’s surface.

Inside New York’s Union Square subway station, ‘subway therapy’, as it is called,came alive for locals to express themselves and show solidarity with immigrants, religious and ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community.

Still Anti-Trump emotions among many in this largely democratic city were still running high.

“I didn’t know how Obama was such a gentleman, and was so civil towards him.I want to hit him with my stick, man!”

“So filled with violence and hate, and his plan to put walls.You know I’m a Israeli, and I don’t hate Muslim.What is this? It’s crazy.”

But there was also a sense of reckoning.

“He might have all these surprises, and I have to be open to that.Cause soon to be that’s my future is coming, that’s who are gonna be my president.”

“He is President-elect, whether we like it or not.”

Outside Manhattan, New York Staten Island,which awarded President-elect Donald Trump with 57 percent of the vote,has taken a different turning reaction to its Presidency and wide-spread protests.

Congregation at “Toras Emes” in a predominantly Russian Jewish community, have mixed opinions,but are generally more trust in Trump than their Manhattan counterparts.

“They have listen to his children, and they had impressed me very much, like they would be fair.And I think they have some kind of influence on their father, or vice versa.”

Still the congregation’s rabbi and spiritual leader admits he often has to play referee.

“There is a famous expression, ‘Two Jews, three opinions’.”

He praises individual expression, and has hoped that even at moments of upheaval and uncertainty,the country, like his congregation, can carry itself in a civilized manner.

“Thank God, you know, we live in democracy.Yes, of course, there are people who are upset, and they may protest.But ok, that’s part of the democratic way.”

Ramon Taylor, VOA news, New York.