Let us finish the job, said Joe Biden in his re-election video. The rest of us, including Biden, could have been forgiven for thinking he had already done that by defeating Donald Trump in 2020. Yet here we are again: two bald men fighting over a comb, as Jorge Luis Borges depicted the British-Argentine war over the Falklands. America is no comb and Trump has plenty of hair. Nor is he certain to be the Republican nominee. But a repeat battle between ageing men would test America’s tolerance.
“讓我們完成未竟事業(yè)，”喬?拜登(Joe Biden)在他宣布競選連任的視頻中表示。我們其他人，包括拜登本人在內(nèi)，本來有理由認為，他在2020年已經(jīng)完成畢生最重要的事業(yè)：擊敗唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)。然而我們再次面對這一局面：兩個禿頭男子爭奪一把梳子，就像已故阿根廷作家豪爾赫?路易斯?博爾赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges)當年在談到英阿馬島戰(zhàn)爭時所言。美國當然不是什么梳子，而特朗普還有很多頭發(fā)。況且他也不一定會成為共和黨總統(tǒng)候選人。但這兩位老年男子之間的“復(fù)賽”將會考驗美國人的容忍度。