精明的人

Mr Thaksin was particularly hated by urban Thais because of his open-handed courting of the rural vote, using debt-forgiveness and expensive subsidies for health care and rural development. To many, this was "vote-buying", though it never really went further than canny populism. He had won a thumping election victory in 2001 on the back of such promises. He won again in 2005, and would presumably have won a third time, in the snap election he called in April 2006, had the opposition not boycotted the poll, in effect invalidating the vote.

由于他信先生对农村选民的慷慨好施，比如对农民减免债务，提供昂贵的医疗补贴和发展农村，从而招致泰国中产阶级的特别怨恨，尽管比起精明谨慎的民粹分子来说，这次还从未真正的更深入行动，但对许多人来说，这已是在&买选票&。2001年通过这样的许诺他信压倒性的赢得的了大选。2005年再次当选，并预计赢得第三次大选，而2006年4月这次他呼吁的匆忙中的大选遭到反对派的联合抵制，事实上导致大选无效。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。