特朗普妄想吞并加拿大？加国：做梦呢？我亲妈可是北约！老美：别，我们自愿加入加拿大
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Rodney Jones
Should Donald Trump annex Canada?
唐纳德-特朗普应该吞并加拿大吗？
HMMm, that’s a tough one. The word annex is ambiguous… if you mean in the military sense, I’d suggest that this would be a very bad move. For a start, the USA would become a pariah nation like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq when they invaded Kuwait. Secondly… they’d get their arse kicked. Canada would get instant aid from the UK and the Commonwealth countries, and I imagine they’d invoke some NATO clause about protecting the sovereignty of member nations. Not only pariahs, but the USA would quickly find themselves facing 3 or more nuclear nations.
嗯，这个问题很难回答。吞并这个词有歧义......如果您指的是军事意义上的吞并，我认为这将是一个非常糟糕的举动。首先，美国将成为一个被唾弃的国家，就像萨达姆·侯赛因入侵科威特时期的伊拉克一样。其次......他们会被打得屁滚尿流。加拿大会立即得到英国和英联邦国家的援助，我觉得他们会援引北约关于保护成员国主权的条款。美国不仅会成为过街老鼠，它还会很快发现自己面临三国或更多核武国家的威胁。
A better choice might be to go after the ‘hearts and minds’ of Canadian citizens. Again, not an easy task because they have proper schooling in Canada, and would be most unlikely to fall for the sort of lying shit that comes out of Fox News.
更好的选择可能是争取加拿大公民的 “民心”。同样，这也不是一件容易的事，因为这些公民在加拿大接受过正规教育，不太可能听信福克斯新闻的谎言。
And you’d also need a way to induce them to pay double for their healthcare costs, and risk bankruptcy whenever a family member gets a chronic illness, and the insurance companies cancel their cover.
您还需要想办法让加拿大人愿意支付双倍的医疗费用，并在家庭成员患慢性病、保险公司取消保险时冒破产的风险。
They do have guns in Canada but they also have controls on their use, so the proliferation of automatic weapons, and the sort of deregulation advocated by the NRA probably wouldn’t be too popular with most Canadians.
加拿大确实有枪支，但他们也对枪支的使用进行管制，因此自动武器的扩散以及全国枪支协会所倡导的放松管制的做法可能不会受到大多数加拿大人的欢迎。
You’d also need to fix things like homicide rates, education, pollution, food nutrition, incarceration rates, obesity, and infant mortality.
您还需要解决高杀人率、教育、污染、食品营养、监禁率、肥胖症和婴儿死亡率等问题。
Oh, and might I suggest replacing your president with someone who’s not a felon, or a rapist, or an insurrectionist, or a career con-man?
哦，还有，我建议你们换掉你们的总统，选一个不是罪犯、强奸犯、叛乱分子，或者职业骗子的人。
Should Donald Trump annex Canada?
唐纳德-特朗普应该吞并加拿大吗？
HMMm, that’s a tough one. The word annex is ambiguous… if you mean in the military sense, I’d suggest that this would be a very bad move. For a start, the USA would become a pariah nation like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq when they invaded Kuwait. Secondly… they’d get their arse kicked. Canada would get instant aid from the UK and the Commonwealth countries, and I imagine they’d invoke some NATO clause about protecting the sovereignty of member nations. Not only pariahs, but the USA would quickly find themselves facing 3 or more nuclear nations.
嗯，这个问题很难回答。吞并这个词有歧义......如果您指的是军事意义上的吞并，我认为这将是一个非常糟糕的举动。首先，美国将成为一个被唾弃的国家，就像萨达姆·侯赛因入侵科威特时期的伊拉克一样。其次......他们会被打得屁滚尿流。加拿大会立即得到英国和英联邦国家的援助，我觉得他们会援引北约关于保护成员国主权的条款。美国不仅会成为过街老鼠，它还会很快发现自己面临三国或更多核武国家的威胁。
A better choice might be to go after the ‘hearts and minds’ of Canadian citizens. Again, not an easy task because they have proper schooling in Canada, and would be most unlikely to fall for the sort of lying shit that comes out of Fox News.
更好的选择可能是争取加拿大公民的 “民心”。同样，这也不是一件容易的事，因为这些公民在加拿大接受过正规教育，不太可能听信福克斯新闻的谎言。
And you’d also need a way to induce them to pay double for their healthcare costs, and risk bankruptcy whenever a family member gets a chronic illness, and the insurance companies cancel their cover.
您还需要想办法让加拿大人愿意支付双倍的医疗费用，并在家庭成员患慢性病、保险公司取消保险时冒破产的风险。
They do have guns in Canada but they also have controls on their use, so the proliferation of automatic weapons, and the sort of deregulation advocated by the NRA probably wouldn’t be too popular with most Canadians.
加拿大确实有枪支，但他们也对枪支的使用进行管制，因此自动武器的扩散以及全国枪支协会所倡导的放松管制的做法可能不会受到大多数加拿大人的欢迎。
You’d also need to fix things like homicide rates, education, pollution, food nutrition, incarceration rates, obesity, and infant mortality.
您还需要解决高杀人率、教育、污染、食品营养、监禁率、肥胖症和婴儿死亡率等问题。
Oh, and might I suggest replacing your president with someone who’s not a felon, or a rapist, or an insurrectionist, or a career con-man?
哦，还有，我建议你们换掉你们的总统，选一个不是罪犯、强奸犯、叛乱分子，或者职业骗子的人。
评论翻译
Hans Brinkhof
If he tries, not only can NATO finally stop listening to that rambling idiot, but immediately, not only will the US be without any allies, but all the former allies will line up with Canada.
如果他真的这么做了，不仅北约终于能停止听那个胡言乱语的傻瓜，而且美国会立刻失去所有盟友，所有前盟友都会站在加拿大一边。
See, that’s how NATO works. If anyone (even if that anyone is a NATO member) invades a NATO member, all of NATO comes to the aid of the one being attacked.
你看，这就是北约的运作方式。如果有人（即使那个人是北约成员）入侵一个北约成员，北约的所有成员都会来帮助被攻击的国家。
If Trump really wants to start a shitstorm the US will not like, basically being attacked by all it’s former allies, not having any allies left, and losing millions upon millions in military contracts, not to mention other deals, and losing many overseas military bases ….
如果特朗普真想制造一场美国无法承受的风暴，基本上就是被所有前盟友攻击，失去所有盟友，损失数百万军事合同，更别提其他交易，失去许多海外军事基地……
Then, yes, he really should go after Greenland/Denmark or Canada.
所以，嗯，让他试着去吞并格陵兰/丹麦或者加拿大吧。
Mike Webster
Dumb shit. The word is not annex, the word is invade. And it would go something like this: United States sends massive military forces to occupy tiny portions of Canada including major cities. Canadians fight back with a massive high intensity insurgency. The rest of NATO joins in on Canada's side as does most of the rest of the world. Weapons and equipment flood into the 95% of Canada that the United States couldn't possibly occupy. Bombings and attacks and sabotage become rampant all across the United States especially areas close to the border. Eventually the United States has to withdraw and go back to their own borders and then make reparations possibly even surrendering territory.
傻瓜。这个词不是“吞并”，而是“入侵”。情况可能会是这样的：美国派遣大量军队占领加拿大的部分区域，包括主要城市。加拿大人以高强度游击战反击。北约其他成员国以及世界大多数国家站在加拿大一边。武器和装备涌入加拿大95%的地区，而美国根本无法占领这些地方。轰炸、袭击和破坏活动在美国蔓延，尤其是在美加边境地区。最终，美国不得不撤军，退回到自己的境内，并可能需要进行赔偿，甚至交出部分领土。
Edgar Maines
Annexing Canada, or going to economic war, would be completely pointless, and politically disastrous for the Trump Party. It would be expensive, damaging, and would accomplish nothing. If Canada was folded into America it would basically just double the clout of California and New England - a massive dose of liberal social sensibility that would tip the declining Republican demographic completely out of the picture, forever.
吞并加拿大，或者发动经济战争，完全是没有意义的，而且会给特朗普政党带来政治灾难。这个代价将是昂贵有害的，并且毫无收获。如果加拿大并入美国，基本上只会使加利福尼亚州和新英格兰的影响力翻倍。大量的自由派支持者最终会彻底将逐渐衰退的共和党选民群体赶下政治舞台，使其永远消失。
Craig Urquhart
In short: No.
简而言之：不可能。
Canada and the USA may have been culturally very similar at one point ,and superficially are still similar; however, on a deeper level, both nations have gone on very different paths over the course of their evolutions and revolutions.
加拿大和美国曾经在文化上非常相似，甚至表面上依然有很多相似之处；然而，从更深层次来看，这两个国家在各自的演变和革命过程中走上了截然不同的道路。
Canada would be a cause of major indigestion in the USA, and more or less permanent struggle would emerge over time were the USA to attempt this. The only way to do it would be militarily, or through a slow absorption process, as with the European unx, in which member states are slowly reduced to irrelevance over time, such that people don’t notice what’s going on.
如果美国试图吞并加拿大，最终会导致美国的严重“消化不良”，而且会随着时间推移，出现一些永久性的冲突。唯一的吞并方式可能是通过军事手段，或者像欧盟那样通过慢慢吸收的过程，在人们还没意识到时，就逐渐削弱成员国的力量。
The thing is, in the recent past, Canada has been much better governed than the USA, and its fundamentals on a social, economic and political level are more sound. Canada would lose more than it would gain from any kind of merger, as the USA is becoming less easily governable and is losing influence in the world.
问题是，近年来加拿大的治理要比美国好得多，从社会、经济和政治层面来看，加拿大的基础更加稳固。加拿大从任何形式的合并中得到的好处远远不及它所失去的，因为美国正在变得越来越难以治理，且在全球的影响力逐渐减弱。
Robert Kanzig
I worked for years. Didn’t miss time. Had insurance that was taken out of my check each month.
我工作了多年，从未请过假，每个月都用薪水缴纳保险费。
In April I fell in my driveway. Completely blew out my shoulder. Since I did at home I was told the company wouldn’t make concessions. I would not be able to work again until I could come back with restrictions. So no paycheck.
但是在四月，我在车道上摔了一跤，彻底摔坏了肩膀。因为是在家摔的，公司拒绝做任何补偿。一直到我恢复健康之前，我都不能工作。所以我没有工资。
Because I had no paycheck to take the money from I had to pay my insurance premiums out of pocket. I begged and borrowed each month to do that. Put a huge strain on the entire family.
因为没有工资来源，我不得不自己支付保险费。我每个月都在借钱和求助。整个家庭承受了巨大的压力。
I had surgery in August for one complete ruptured tendon and to other tears. Now is where the real fun starts. The insurance company realized that I was paying out of pocket and not through the company. They refunded my last payment and just canceled me. And before I get a hundred replies that they can’t I talked to multiple lawyers about this yes they can.
我在八月做了手术，修复了一个完全断裂的肌腱和其他两处撕裂。接下来才是最糟糕的部分。保险公司发现我是在自付保险费，而不是通过公司支付的。他们退还了我最后一笔付款，并直接取消了我的保险。别说他们不能这么做，我已经咨询了多个律师，答案是：他们可以这么做。
So I have six figures in doctors bills. The surgery didn’t work and there’s something still very wrong with arm. I don’t qualify for unemployment and Medicaid assistance because I’m still employed. I’ll eventually have to declare bankruptcy over this. The surgeon refuses to see me until I get him paid. He won’t try to see what the problem might be. No other doctor will touch me because I’m not insured and MRIs are not cheap.
所以我现在有六位数的医疗账单。手术没有成功，我的手臂依然有问题。我不符合失业救济和医疗援助资格，因为我还处于就业状态。我最终可能不得不因为这个问题宣布破产。外科医生拒绝给我看病，除非我先把账单付清。他不愿意看看问题究竟出在哪里。没有其他医生愿意接诊我，因为我没有保险，而核磁共振扫描可不便宜。
I’ve lost my housing and my car over all this mess. I’ve tried to find some sort of work but fast food places won’t even hire because nobody knows what’s up with the arm.
因为这一切，我失去了房和车。我曾试图找工作，但快餐店都不愿意雇我，因为没人知道我的手臂到底怎么回事。
I fell in the driveway and lost everything I ever had. And I was insured. That’s how bad the medical system is in the USA. And how empathetic companies are toward loyal employees and the government is towards tax paying citizens.
我在车道上摔了一跤，就失去了曾经拥有的一切。而我原本是有保险的。这就是美国医疗系统的现状，也是公司对忠诚员工以及政府对纳税公民的冷漠体现。
Should Trump annex Canada? God no! I wouldn’t wish the hell this country has become on anybody. If they’re willing though I wish Canada would be willing to annex us.
特朗普应该吞并加拿大吗？绝对不！我不会希望这个国家变成现在这样的人间地狱。尽管如此，如果加拿大愿意的话，我倒是希望他们能吞并我们。
Hank Eder
Maybe Canada should annex the US. We’d get universal health care that way.
也许加拿大应该吞并美国。那样我们就能得到全民医保了。
Not that either country will annex the other, but it’s fun to think about.
当然，两个国家都不会吞并对方，但光想想还挺好玩的。
If he tries, not only can NATO finally stop listening to that rambling idiot, but immediately, not only will the US be without any allies, but all the former allies will line up with Canada.
如果他真的这么做了，不仅北约终于能停止听那个胡言乱语的傻瓜，而且美国会立刻失去所有盟友，所有前盟友都会站在加拿大一边。
See, that’s how NATO works. If anyone (even if that anyone is a NATO member) invades a NATO member, all of NATO comes to the aid of the one being attacked.
你看，这就是北约的运作方式。如果有人（即使那个人是北约成员）入侵一个北约成员，北约的所有成员都会来帮助被攻击的国家。
If Trump really wants to start a shitstorm the US will not like, basically being attacked by all it’s former allies, not having any allies left, and losing millions upon millions in military contracts, not to mention other deals, and losing many overseas military bases ….
如果特朗普真想制造一场美国无法承受的风暴，基本上就是被所有前盟友攻击，失去所有盟友，损失数百万军事合同，更别提其他交易，失去许多海外军事基地……
Then, yes, he really should go after Greenland/Denmark or Canada.
所以，嗯，让他试着去吞并格陵兰/丹麦或者加拿大吧。
Mike Webster
Dumb shit. The word is not annex, the word is invade. And it would go something like this: United States sends massive military forces to occupy tiny portions of Canada including major cities. Canadians fight back with a massive high intensity insurgency. The rest of NATO joins in on Canada's side as does most of the rest of the world. Weapons and equipment flood into the 95% of Canada that the United States couldn't possibly occupy. Bombings and attacks and sabotage become rampant all across the United States especially areas close to the border. Eventually the United States has to withdraw and go back to their own borders and then make reparations possibly even surrendering territory.
傻瓜。这个词不是“吞并”，而是“入侵”。情况可能会是这样的：美国派遣大量军队占领加拿大的部分区域，包括主要城市。加拿大人以高强度游击战反击。北约其他成员国以及世界大多数国家站在加拿大一边。武器和装备涌入加拿大95%的地区，而美国根本无法占领这些地方。轰炸、袭击和破坏活动在美国蔓延，尤其是在美加边境地区。最终，美国不得不撤军，退回到自己的境内，并可能需要进行赔偿，甚至交出部分领土。
Edgar Maines
Annexing Canada, or going to economic war, would be completely pointless, and politically disastrous for the Trump Party. It would be expensive, damaging, and would accomplish nothing. If Canada was folded into America it would basically just double the clout of California and New England - a massive dose of liberal social sensibility that would tip the declining Republican demographic completely out of the picture, forever.
吞并加拿大，或者发动经济战争，完全是没有意义的，而且会给特朗普政党带来政治灾难。这个代价将是昂贵有害的，并且毫无收获。如果加拿大并入美国，基本上只会使加利福尼亚州和新英格兰的影响力翻倍。大量的自由派支持者最终会彻底将逐渐衰退的共和党选民群体赶下政治舞台，使其永远消失。
Craig Urquhart
In short: No.
简而言之：不可能。
Canada and the USA may have been culturally very similar at one point ,and superficially are still similar; however, on a deeper level, both nations have gone on very different paths over the course of their evolutions and revolutions.
加拿大和美国曾经在文化上非常相似，甚至表面上依然有很多相似之处；然而，从更深层次来看，这两个国家在各自的演变和革命过程中走上了截然不同的道路。
Canada would be a cause of major indigestion in the USA, and more or less permanent struggle would emerge over time were the USA to attempt this. The only way to do it would be militarily, or through a slow absorption process, as with the European unx, in which member states are slowly reduced to irrelevance over time, such that people don’t notice what’s going on.
如果美国试图吞并加拿大，最终会导致美国的严重“消化不良”，而且会随着时间推移，出现一些永久性的冲突。唯一的吞并方式可能是通过军事手段，或者像欧盟那样通过慢慢吸收的过程，在人们还没意识到时，就逐渐削弱成员国的力量。
The thing is, in the recent past, Canada has been much better governed than the USA, and its fundamentals on a social, economic and political level are more sound. Canada would lose more than it would gain from any kind of merger, as the USA is becoming less easily governable and is losing influence in the world.
问题是，近年来加拿大的治理要比美国好得多，从社会、经济和政治层面来看，加拿大的基础更加稳固。加拿大从任何形式的合并中得到的好处远远不及它所失去的，因为美国正在变得越来越难以治理，且在全球的影响力逐渐减弱。
Robert Kanzig
I worked for years. Didn’t miss time. Had insurance that was taken out of my check each month.
我工作了多年，从未请过假，每个月都用薪水缴纳保险费。
In April I fell in my driveway. Completely blew out my shoulder. Since I did at home I was told the company wouldn’t make concessions. I would not be able to work again until I could come back with restrictions. So no paycheck.
但是在四月，我在车道上摔了一跤，彻底摔坏了肩膀。因为是在家摔的，公司拒绝做任何补偿。一直到我恢复健康之前，我都不能工作。所以我没有工资。
Because I had no paycheck to take the money from I had to pay my insurance premiums out of pocket. I begged and borrowed each month to do that. Put a huge strain on the entire family.
因为没有工资来源，我不得不自己支付保险费。我每个月都在借钱和求助。整个家庭承受了巨大的压力。
I had surgery in August for one complete ruptured tendon and to other tears. Now is where the real fun starts. The insurance company realized that I was paying out of pocket and not through the company. They refunded my last payment and just canceled me. And before I get a hundred replies that they can’t I talked to multiple lawyers about this yes they can.
我在八月做了手术，修复了一个完全断裂的肌腱和其他两处撕裂。接下来才是最糟糕的部分。保险公司发现我是在自付保险费，而不是通过公司支付的。他们退还了我最后一笔付款，并直接取消了我的保险。别说他们不能这么做，我已经咨询了多个律师，答案是：他们可以这么做。
So I have six figures in doctors bills. The surgery didn’t work and there’s something still very wrong with arm. I don’t qualify for unemployment and Medicaid assistance because I’m still employed. I’ll eventually have to declare bankruptcy over this. The surgeon refuses to see me until I get him paid. He won’t try to see what the problem might be. No other doctor will touch me because I’m not insured and MRIs are not cheap.
所以我现在有六位数的医疗账单。手术没有成功，我的手臂依然有问题。我不符合失业救济和医疗援助资格，因为我还处于就业状态。我最终可能不得不因为这个问题宣布破产。外科医生拒绝给我看病，除非我先把账单付清。他不愿意看看问题究竟出在哪里。没有其他医生愿意接诊我，因为我没有保险，而核磁共振扫描可不便宜。
I’ve lost my housing and my car over all this mess. I’ve tried to find some sort of work but fast food places won’t even hire because nobody knows what’s up with the arm.
因为这一切，我失去了房和车。我曾试图找工作，但快餐店都不愿意雇我，因为没人知道我的手臂到底怎么回事。
I fell in the driveway and lost everything I ever had. And I was insured. That’s how bad the medical system is in the USA. And how empathetic companies are toward loyal employees and the government is towards tax paying citizens.
我在车道上摔了一跤，就失去了曾经拥有的一切。而我原本是有保险的。这就是美国医疗系统的现状，也是公司对忠诚员工以及政府对纳税公民的冷漠体现。
Should Trump annex Canada? God no! I wouldn’t wish the hell this country has become on anybody. If they’re willing though I wish Canada would be willing to annex us.
特朗普应该吞并加拿大吗？绝对不！我不会希望这个国家变成现在这样的人间地狱。尽管如此，如果加拿大愿意的话，我倒是希望他们能吞并我们。
Hank Eder
Maybe Canada should annex the US. We’d get universal health care that way.
也许加拿大应该吞并美国。那样我们就能得到全民医保了。
Not that either country will annex the other, but it’s fun to think about.
当然，两个国家都不会吞并对方，但光想想还挺好玩的。
