然而反主流文化运动矫枉过正,尼克松发现他自己成为了“沉默的大多数”,于是开始抱怨起令他自己忧心不已的(新派的)精英们:近来大家熟悉的在学术界、新闻界和好莱坞的肇事元凶们。
Then the counterculture overreached, Nixon found his "silent majority", and railed against his own bugbear elites: the now familiar culprits in academia, Hollywood and the press.
尼克松站在“沉默的大多数”(即普通美国民众)一边抗衡精英分子,把自己迫不得已的事包装成出于自己的正直品质。
Nixon made a virtue of his squareness by siding with America’s “silent majority” against the elites.
尼克松的南方战略,他对公交车事件的态度和对沉默的大多数的吸引力马上为他赢得了选举资本。
Nixon's Southern strategy, his challenge to court-ordered busing and appeal to the silent majority, paid immediate electoral dividends.
批评家们称尼克松对美国人民冷漠而疏远,但他相信自己以一种神秘的方式与大多数美国人——沉默的美国人,美国中产阶级和美国中年人有联系。
His critics call him remote and heartless, but Nixon believes that he is linked in a mysterious way to the great America majority-the silent America, the middle America, and the middleaged.
批评家们称尼克松对美国人民冷漠而疏远,但他相信自己以一种神秘的方式与大多数美国人——沉默的美国人,美国中产阶级和美国中年人有联系。
His critics call him remote and heartless, but Nixon believes that he is linked in a mysterious way to the great America majority-the silent America, the middle America, and the middleaged.
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