VOA常速英语2018--美国民众排长队送别参议员约翰·麦凯恩（在线收听）

Here in this country, former POW and Senator John McCain was known as a maverick, a politician unafraid to break with his Republican party.

美国人将前战俘、参议员约翰 麦卡恩(John McCain)自由不羁之人，因为作为一位政治家，他不惧与共和党闹翻。

This is a failed policy in Iraq. It’s not going to work. It’s got to be changed.

这个政策在伊拉克行不通，是不会奏效的，应该予以改变。

That ability to put belief over politics is respected by these Americans. They’re from both parties and they stood in line for up to 6 hours to say goodbye.

他将信仰看的比政治重要的能力深得美国人的尊重。这些民众政见不同，但他们都排了长达6小时的长队，等着送麦凯恩最后一程。

I’m sorry that we lost him. I’ll be thinking sorry that he’s gone.

很遗憾，他离我们而去了。以后想起来这件事，我也会深感遗憾。

And he’s a great man. Such a decent man, you know. He shows the best of America.

他很伟大，很正派。他代表了美国一切美好的象征。

The 81 year old former presidential candidate died of brain cancer on August 25th. Senator McCain was given the honor of lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda before burial.

81岁的麦凯恩曾是前总统候选人，但8月25日，他死于脑癌。身为参议员的他获得了在入土为安前在国会大厦圆形大厅内安息的殊荣。

The past is cast. I’ll be thinking from my freedom.

过去已尘埃落定，今后我将以自由为准则。

McCain was a Navy pilot shot down over Vietnam in 1967, he spoke about it in this rare interview with French TV.

1967年，麦凯恩曾担任海军飞行员，但在越南上空被击落。在破天荒地接受法国某电视台采访期间，他谈到了此事。

McCain suffered more than 5 years of torture as a prisoner of war. During that time Khan Vu was growing up in Saigon. He admired McCain’s character.

麦凯恩被俘有5年多之久，期间他饱受折磨。麦凯恩被俘期间正是可汗 维(Khan Vu)在西贡长大的时候。可汗 维很敬仰麦凯恩的品格。

He didn’t hate the leaders of Vietnam, instead he came back to Vietnam, shaking hands with them like family members do, with the intention to build the world together.

麦凯恩并不憎恨越南领袖，相反，他重返越南之时，还与越南人握手，亲密宛如家人。他这样做的目的是希望全世界能团结一心。

After his release, McCain was elected to senator of the state of Arizona. He ran for president in 2000 and again in 2008, when he won the Republican nomination but lost to Barack Obama.

得到自由身之后，麦凯恩当选为亚利桑那州的参议员。2000年和2008年，他曾两次竞选总统一职。但虽然得到了共和党的提名，他还是输给了巴拉克 奥巴马(Barack Obama)。

Though the highest office eluded him, he attained what is far more enduring, the abiding affection of his fellow citizens and an example for future generations.

虽然没能荣登总统一职，他获得了更不易消弭的东西——人民的不变的喜爱和子孙后代的榜样形象。

Liberty Ladd couldn’t agree more.

利伯蒂 拉德(Liberty Ladd)深以为然。

Polarization whether it’s on the far left or if is on the far right, what we can learn, what my generation can learn from him is working across the aisle.

无论是极左派还极右派，我辈都能从麦凯恩身上学到一点：跨党合作。

In his farewell words released after his death, Senator John McCain wrote ‘we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement.’ A man who even in death is unifying.

麦凯恩死后，他的告别辞问世。他在其中写道，“你我他之间的相似之处远多过不同之处。”即便死后，他也惦念着将众人团结在一起。