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哭，希拉里失败了

我不关心政治，但同为女性，我还是希望她能赢，尽管在这之前我就觉得她赢的机会不大，Obama更出色些。我还是希望美国历史能走出划时代的一步。正如希拉里说的，这个梦想以前她的妈妈不能做，他的奶奶不能做，可是她做了。虽然，最后未能成事。但，总有一天，美国会有个女总统的。

这是纽约时报的一篇希拉里退出竞选的演讲稿。

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/us/politics/07text-clinton.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&adxnnlx=1213171548-79TIQ8zTjCGviaNygmRDDA

我特别喜欢她演讲中的四个"fought for". 美国领导人的讲演还是比较注重实际的，从民众的角度出发。立意很明确，他们关心的是什么？在意的是什么？

we fought for the single mom with the young daughter, juggling work and school, who told me, "I'm doing it all to better myself for her."

We fought for the woman who grabbed my hand and asked me, "What are you going to do to make sure I have health care?" and began to cry, because even though she works three jobs, she can't afford insurance.

We fought for the young man in the Marine Corps t-shirt who waited months for medical care and said, "Take care of my buddies over there, and then will you please take care of me?"

We fought for all those who've lost jobs and health care, who can't afford gas or groceries or college, who have felt invisible to their president these last seven years.

为了帮助大家理解，我列举出了该文中的习语。供大家参考。在正式的演讲中，是不欢迎俚语的，学习英文写作的同学，希望你们注意这点，原因很简单，因为不规范。

at stake: "And we are all heading forward...because so much is at stake." （p.2)

stake是赌注，at stake的意思是风险太高，随时可能失去。

dead-end "so that parents don't...dead-end jobs to keep their insurance" (p.2)

dead-end就是没前途，死会。这里是说保留没指望的工作只是为了保住你的医保。在美国或是加拿大，如果你的工作不稳定，一直是part-time, 政府很有可能取消你的医保卡申请。所以医保卡很重要，如果你没有insurance card, 别人会觉得你不正常，因为你的健康得不到保障。不过，我在加拿大的时候也没办那卡，我身体很好，没病没灾，办了太不划算，一个月要交30加币（人民币240）。