gerrymander

The reason why so many investors are obsessed with the government is that officials cannot stop themselves from intervening in the market to try and gerrymander the level of the stock index.

如此多投资者执迷于政府的原因是，政府官员忍不住就会干预股市，试图操纵股指点位。

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Most congressional seats are safely in the hands of one of the two parties, thanks to gerrymandering.

由于不公平的选区划分政策，国会中的多数议席始终牢牢掌握在两党之中一方的手中。

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Gerrymandered districts mean that most congressmen fear their partisans in the primaries more than their opponents in the general election.

格里蝾螈选区的出现意味着大部分议员们更担心来自党内左翼分子的竞争，而不是换届选举中的对手。

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First, the state's demographics are changing fast enough that an overly ambitious partisan gerrymander is likely to come unstuck during its ten-year lifespan.

首先，本州的人口分布情况变化很快，如果偏向某个党派的选区划分进行得太过，在未来的十年里可能不能收效。

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But there are also trickier prospects, such as Illinois, where Democrats will probably succeed in undermining several freshmen Republicans. In Florida, perhaps the most glaring Republican gerrymander of the previous cycle, a new law on redistricting is likely to crimp the state legislators" most partisan impulses.

可在有些地方，他们可能要遇到挑战，比如伊利诺伊斯州，民主党可以争取到一些共和党政坛新手的席位，另外在共和党上次重划选区做得最过的佛罗里达州，新颁布了一项法律禁止州立法委员偏私一党之利。

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With the help of skilful gerrymandering, the Party has never lost an election since.

这个政党通过巧妙地改划选区而使此后的选举无往不胜。

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A gerrymander sounds like a strange political beast, which in fact it is, considered from a historical perspective.

一个不公正划分选区听起来象是一个奇怪的政治怪兽，事实上它是来自历史上的观点。

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Can the US change campaign finance rules or minimise pork barrelling and gerrymandering?

美国能否改变竞选活动财务规则，或将笼络民心的政治经费和不公平的划分选区的行为减至最低？

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In spite of the gerrymandering of districts, the advantages of incumbency and renewed recourse to the politics of fear, common sense prevailed.

尽管按照有利于共和党的方式重划了选区，具有在任的优势，并重新诉诸于恐惧政治，但理性还是占了上风。

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He gerrymandered the rules to ensure the passage of his proposal.

他擅自修改规定，以确保自己的建议获得通过。

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For all the gerrymandering, and in spite of the culture of extremism and intimidation fostered over the past five years, ordinary Americans have made clear they have had enough.

尽管有各种各样的操纵，尽管美国过去5年形成了极端主义和威胁恐吓的风气，但美国普通人已明确表态：他们受够了。

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The single currency was always flawed; Washington has been paralysed by congressional gerrymandering. But you cannot leave out the personalities.

欧洲单一货币的构想从一开始就存在缺陷；美国国会选区重划已让华盛顿陷于瘫痪。

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There are two principal strategies behind gerrymandering: maximizing the effective votes of supporters, and minimizing the effective votes of opponents.

造成“蜥蜴脚尾”现象的两种主要策略是：最大限度增加本党有效选票的同时，使对手的有效选票达到最小化。

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Ending such gerrymandering could have major ramifications in New York, as there are few areas of Manhattan, for example, that have high enough unemployment rates to qualify.

停止这一不公正的地区划分会对纽约产生重大影响，比如曼哈顿就没有什么地方能够凑到满足该方案所需的足够多的失业人口。

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But the best way to offer them support is directly, not by gerrymandering the rules.

但是给予他们帮助的最好方法是直接了当地给予，而不是通过不公正的手段。

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Our time together seemed devoid of the gerrymandered schedules that now pervade my life.

和母亲在一起的岁月，全然没有充斥于我的生活中的、事先排定的虚情假意的日程表。

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