背景閱讀：

　　當?shù)貢r間2016年10月19日，2016美國總統(tǒng)大選第三場辯論、也是最后一次辯論在美國內(nèi)華達大學(xué)拉斯維加斯分校舉行。

　　辯論期間，特朗普表示，美國大選遭人操控，并稱鑒于“電郵門”等一些丑聞，希拉里根本就沒有資格參加這次大選。

　　主持人華萊士對特朗普發(fā)問，在美國大選史上，不管誰輸誰贏，最終輸家會認輸，實現(xiàn)新舊政權(quán)的和平過渡，你會遵循這一傳統(tǒng)嗎?

　　特朗普則稱：“到時候再說，我現(xiàn)在不會告訴你�！�

　　美國總統(tǒng)大選已進入最后沖刺階段，兩黨候選人角逐愈發(fā)激烈，民眾的困惑與無奈也在加深�！熬S基解密”近日宣布，將陸續(xù)公布內(nèi)容涉及美國總統(tǒng)選舉、戰(zhàn)爭、武器、石油等方面的秘密文件。可以想見，更多爆料只會給這場混亂不堪的“政治秀”扔下更多的“炸彈”。

　　This may have been the debate Donald Trump wanted, but it wasn't the one he needed.

　　With one last chance to make a pitch to the American public that he should be trusted with the presidency, the Republican nominee had to make efforts to expand his base of support.

　　nominee

　　n. 被提名者，候選人; 被任命者; 代名人;

　　例句：

　　His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.

　　他提名的副總統(tǒng)在兩輪投票后才當選。

　　其他：

　　復(fù)數(shù)：nominees

　　He had to find a way to distance himself from the allegation that he has a history of sexual harassment.

　　He had to position himself as the change candidate - just days after a Fox poll showed that Hillary Clinton, whose party has held the presidency for eight years, was beating him on the question of who would "change the country for the better".

　　Instead, after a roughly half an hour of something resembling an actual policy debate about the Supreme Court, gun rights, abortion and even immigration, the old Donald Trump - the one who constantly interrupted his opponent, sparred with the moderator and lashed out at enemies real and perceived - emerged.

　　He called Mrs Clinton a liar and a "nasty woman".

　　He said the women accusing him of sexual harassment bordering on assault were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges.

　　He said the media were "poisoning the minds" of the public. And, most notably, he refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election if he loses.

　　Mrs Clinton had her own moments where she was put in the defensive - on her emails, on the Clinton Foundation and on embarrassing details revealed in the Wikileaks hack.

　　The difference, however, is that Mrs Clinton largely kept her poise and successfully changed the topic back to subjects where she was more comfortable. It was, in fact, a master class in parry-and-strike debate strategy.

　　The key takeaway from this debate, however - the headline that Americans will wake up to read in the morning - will certainly be Mr Trump's refusal to back way from his "rigged" election claims.

　　That was what Mr Trump wanted to say, but it isn't something the American people - or American democracy - needed to hear.

　　Mrs Clinton's skill at deflecting attacks and baiting Mr Trump into unhelpful answers first was on display when moderator Chris Wallace brought up a line from one of her Wall Street speeches - revealed in the Wikileaks hack - that she endorsed a hemispheric free-trade and open-immigration zone.

　　moderator

　　n. (討論、會議等的) 主持人; <物>(原子堆中的)減速劑; <英>成績核對人; (新教的) 宗教領(lǐng)袖;

　　例句：

　　This is not only because I was moderator.

　　這不僅因為我是座談會的主持人。

　　其他：

　　復(fù)數(shù)：moderators

　　After saying she was only talking about an open energy market - an assertion that seems somewhat questionable - she tried to turn the question into a discussion of whether Mr Trump would renounce the Russian government, which US officials have said is behind the cyber-attack.

　　Mr Trump actually called Mrs Clinton out on her attempted "great pivot" - but then he went on to get bogged down on the Russian issue.

　　He said he'd never met Mr Putin (although he boasted during a primary debate that he had talked with him in a television green room), and said that Mrs Clinton was a liar and the real Russian "puppet".

　　Oh, and this all came up when the debate topic was supposed to be immigration.

　　A bad experience

　　Mrs Clinton's next chance to pull a rhetorical switch-a-roo came during the economic portion of the debate. After a discussion of their tax proposals - and a predictable exchange of allegations over who's cutting and who's raising them too much - Mr Trump went after Mrs Clinton on her past support of trade deals.

　　When she waffled a bit, he tried to tag her with a line he used in an earlier debate with some success.

　　Why didn't Mrs Clinton enact her economic reforms over her 30 years in the public sphere? Mr Trump asked.

　　"You were very much involved in every aspect of this country," he said. "And you do have experience. I say the one thing you have over me is experience, but it's bad experience, because what you've done has turned out badly."

　　The problem with reusing attack lines is that sometimes your opponent prepares a defence - and Mrs Clinton had a scathing response ready to fly.

　　She said that while she was defending children's rights in the 1970s, Mr Trump was defending himself against charges he engaged in housing discrimination against African-Americans.

　　When Mrs Clinton was speaking out for women's rights as first lady in the 1990s, Mr Trump was taunting a beauty contest winner about her weight. And when she was in the White House situation room watching the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, Mr Trump was hosting a television reality show.

　　"I'm happy to compare my 30 years of experience, what I've done for this country, trying to help in every way I could, especially kids and families get ahead and stay ahead, with your 30 years," she said.

　　"I'll let the American people make that decision."

　　It was a scripted set-piece, yes, but it drew blood.

　　Women trouble

　　Quick on the heels of the exchange about experience came the question Mr Trump had to expect - but didn't appear ready for. What did he think of all the women who had come forward since the last debate to allege that, when it came to sexual harassment, Mr Trump's actions matched his candid words in that recently revealed recording?

　　The Republican nominee's response was that the women were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges and that the allegations have been "largely debunked" - which, when you think about it, isn't exactly a blanket denial.