最近政壇「素人(novice)」崛起:4月中,台灣首富郭台銘宣布角逐總統大位,不到一週,東歐國家烏克蘭也選出喜劇演員澤倫斯基(Volodymyr Zelensky)接棒總統。智庫Penta指出,選民「受夠」政治菁英,象徵反全球化勢力抬頭。 【政治素人淺談】 ■novice 新手、素人 A:Another political novice just won presidency. Do you want to guess what country? (又一個政治素人剛贏得總統大選。猜猜看是哪個國家?) B:I know. It's Ukraine and the president-elect is a comic-turned-leader. (我知道,是烏克蘭,剛當選的總統原是喜劇演員。) ■tycoon 大亨、巨頭 A:Yeah, the Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou just announced to run for presidency, too, with no experience in politics. (沒錯,沒有從政經驗的首富郭台銘也要選總統了。) B:Why do you suppose that is--this trend of novices running for office in the globe? (你覺得為何會有這股政治素人從政的風潮?) ■corruption 貪污 A:Partly because people are fed up with corruption in the current politics and are hungry for change. (部分是因為人民受夠了目前政治的貪腐並渴望改變。) B:Well, let's just hope those people know what they are doing. (嗯,只能期望那些人知道自己在幹嘛。) 【延伸關鍵字】 1. disillusion:幻想破滅 2. frenzy:狂熱 3. ballot :選票 多益時事通工作團隊獨家授權