川普卸任在即 急著指派盟友出任肥缺
【摘要2021.1.13.自由】◎管淑平
While President Donald Trump has refused
to acknowledge that he lost the election, he’s handling the lame-duck period as
his predecessors did in one respect：awarding
plum appointments to key allies, donors and friends on his way out of the White
House.
儘管總統川普一直拒絕承認他輸了選舉，他在一件事上卻一如歷任總統在「跛腳鴨」階段作法：在他即將離開白宮之際，將肥缺職位獎賞給重要盟友、捐款者和朋友。
Since the election, the White House has
announced more than 100 appointments and nominations - some to key
administration posts, but also to various advisory boards and commissions.
白宮自選後已經宣佈指派和提名100多人，有的出任政府要職，但也指派多個不同顧問委員會的人事。
The practice of lame-duck appointments is
by no means new or unusual. The president’s two most recent predecessors,
Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, made a similar flurry of
appointments in the final days of their lame-duck administrations.
這種「跛腳鴨」時期任命人事的作法，絕非首見或者不尋常。川普的前兩任總統，歐巴馬和布希總統，都在卸任前夕任命多項人事。
新聞辭典
dole out：片語，少量分發、施捨。例句：She
keeps doling out money to those kids.（她一直施捨錢給那些小孩。）
plum：形容詞，好的。plum
job/assignment：報酬高的工作、任務，肥差。例句：He just
landed a plum job.（他剛輕鬆地得到一個肥缺。）
by no means：片語，絕對不。例句：He
is by no means a good husband.（他絕對不是個好丈夫。）
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