but look beyond the beltway and something rather more promising is under way.

outside the beltway, other communities are having similar discussions, including chatham county.

在华盛顿官场政治之外，包括查特姆县在内的其它社区也在开展类似的讨论。

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beltway pundits believed al gore and george w. bush were centrists who would govern similarly.

华府的专家学者认为，戈尔和小布什都是中间派，无论谁执政，出台的方针政策都会差不多。

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new stimulus for democrats say, could have created jobs has been shut down amid beltway bickering.

而民主党人对新的刺激会生，可以创造在环城公路没有的就业机会。

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that they now see mr obama as a one-term president will soon mean the worst open warfare inside the beltway in 30 years.

共和党现在将奥巴马视为“一任总统”，这意味着，华盛顿不久将爆发一场30年来最糟糕的公开战争。

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inside the beltway, attitudes about american hegemony have shifted from complacency to panic.

美国政府内部就美国霸权的态度从沾沾自喜变为惊慌失措。

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my wife just called to report that the outer loop of the washington beltway has been completely blocked for hours.

就在这说话的当儿，我的妻子刚好打电话过来，说华盛顿外环已经堵塞了好几个小时。

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booth: yeah. senator in a scandal he'll loose his beltway to the fast track. it's that simple. it's a tough town.

没错。要是议员涉足丑闻，他的亨通仕途就此终结了。就这么简单。此地竞争激烈嘛。

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some are less formal: wonkette, a satirical beltway blog, put on its inaugural "ball" last friday in a yoga studio.

一些就不那么正式了：专写封此文章的博客——温科特，在上周五于一家瑜伽会馆举行了它的就职“舞会”。

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that's right. the effect is not going to be isolated inside the beltway.

是的，影响不仅是在环城高速内部。

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beltway bureaucrats spend many billions of dollars on top-down, highly fragmented federal economic development programs.

华盛顿的官僚花费几十亿美元的自上而下，高度分散的联邦经济发展计划。

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the president will find his asian hosts a lot more receptive to his yes-we-cans than the beltway voters back home.

奥巴马将会发现，与本国的选民相比，他的亚洲东道主们对他的“口头行动”显然更能接受。

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it's a good time, then, to take an assessment of where things stand in the beltway heading into the final months of the year.

不过，在这一年还剩下几个月的时刻，正是对政府做出一番评估的好时机。

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but there's a bigger reason that bush nostalgia is about to become a very real phenomenon inside and outside the beltway: the tea party.

但是有个更大的原因就是小布什之情将会变成一种真实的奇迹出现在环城公路内外：茶党。

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this week, when the national governors association gathered inside the beltway for its winter meeting, innovation was the theme.

这个星期全美州长协会为冬季例会而在国会环路内聚集一堂，改革是本次季会的主题。

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and given the realities of how policy is actually made inside the beltway, things are more likely to go wrong than right.

考虑到这样的事实，政策实际上是由政治权贵们一手包办的，那就可能错得更离谱了。

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the grammy was another reminder that at least beyond the washington beltway, a lot of americans were interested in the same things we were.

格莱美奖给我们的另一个提醒是，至少在华盛顿环城公路之外，有很多美国人和我们有着相同的兴趣。

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but even those of us long calloused by life within the beltway ought to be able to see that we've got a problem.

即便如我们这些常年生活在环路里的人，也应当有能力看到这些问题。

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gates doesn't travel much on the beltway's social circuit, instead spending off-hours with his wife and a small cadre of aides.

盖茨与华盛顿周围的社交圈子并没有太多的来往，业余时间倒是与妻子和一些骨干小助手呆在一起。

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it took me a while, but i finally figured it out: there is an america beyond the beltway.

我花了一会儿时间，不过我最后想通了：有一个超出环城路的美国。

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staminate flowers: calyx 4- or 5-lobed to middle, narrowly ovate, ca. 1 mm, outside densely rust-colored crispate pubescent;

雄花：花萼4-或5裂至中间，狭卵形，长约1毫米，在外面密被锈色卷曲短柔毛的；

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