President Obama is barred by constitutional term limits from seeking re-election in 2016. A large crowd of candidates will likely compete for the Democratic and Republican nominations. Plus there are LOTS of likely third party and independent P2016 hopefuls.
1.文中的“候选人”,既可以表达为“candidate”,也可以用“nominee”来表示。2.“投票”用英语可以表达为“cast their votes”,还可以说成“cast ballots”。
The United States presidential election of 2016, scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, 2016, will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will elect a new president and vice president through the Electoral College. The term limit established in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the incumbent President, Barack Obama, of the Democratic Party, from being elected to a third term.
Businessman and reality television personality Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party on May 3, 2016, after the suspensions of Ted Cruz and John Kasich's campaigns, respectively, and his win in the Indiana primary.He is expected to face the as of yet undetermined nominee of the Democratic Party in the general election, presumably either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
Having outlasted all his opponents, Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Hillary Clinton is closing in on locking up the Democratic nomination.
从众多对手中存活下来的特朗普成为共和党的既定总统候选人代表。希拉里被定为民主党的候选人代表。
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1.“outlast”,意思为“比...长久,从...中逃生”,例如:Or do we want to make a difference in a way that will outlast us?或者,为什么我们不想用另一种不同的方式让自己的事业更长久呢?2. ”the Republican Party“为”共和党“,”the Democratic Party“为”民主党“。
Clinton and Trump may have won the primaries, but are they really representative of what the American people want? In fact, as we will show, it is John Kasich and Bernie Sanders who are first in the nation’s esteem. Trump and Clinton come last.