德國國會選舉
Charging at Merkel
沖!扳倒默克爾!
The Social Democrats pick their candidate to challenge Angela Merkel
社民黨候選人VS安吉拉·默克爾
Peer Steinbruck is a rare German politician in that his sense of irony, delivered in the staccato Hanseatic dialect of his native Hamburg, is sharp, even hilarious. His favourite animal is the rhinoceros, and rhetorically he charges ahead in much the same way. His main hobby is chess, at which he seems to excel. In sheer intellect, he can match Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, whom Mr Steinbruck will challenge in next year’s parliamentary election. “It won’t be a boring campaign,” Mr Steinbruck promised wryly on October 1st, after the leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) nominated him.
佩爾·施泰因布呂克是為數(shù)不多的能讓自己的諷刺既聽起來尖酸又令人發(fā)笑的德國政治家，他帶著家鄉(xiāng)漢堡間斷的漢撒方言。他最喜歡犀牛，從修辭的角度看，他向前沖的方式也與犀牛非常相似。國際象棋是他的業(yè)余愛好，在這方面他似乎造詣深厚。就純粹才智而言，他能媲美現(xiàn)任總理默克爾，明年他倆將角逐國會選舉。10月1日在被社民黨(SPD)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人提名為候選人后，施泰因布呂克帶點(diǎn)自嘲地地保證“不會讓選戰(zhàn)太無聊”。
