Powell and Cheney spent the day giving pep talks to the troops.

鲍威尔和切尼花了一整天给部队作鼓舞士气的讲话。

Cheney is everyone's image of a typical cop: a big white guy, six feet, 220 pounds.

切尼是每个人心目中典型的警察形象：高大的白人，身高6英尺，体重220磅。

He would not vote against them with the 2005 Dick Cheney energy bill, and I did.

他不会像我一样，在2005年的迪克·切尼能源法案中投票反对他们。

Even Cheney couldn't stop it.

即使切尼也无法阻止它。

Mr Cheney asked what the ritual meant.

切尼问国王这番仪式的用意。

Mr Cheney says he thought: "Damn, I need one of those."

切尼说他当时想法是：“该死，我也需要这样一片东西”。

He'd showed an independence that Cheney didn't see coming.

他已经表现出独立性，这是切尼没有预见到的。

Cheney delayed his speech for 40 minutes to allow Obama to finish his.

切尼推迟了40分钟才演讲，他让奥巴马讲完。

Mr Biden has taken up similar public responsibilities to Mr Cheney as well.

拜登也承担着与切尼相似的社会责任。

Mr Cheney may have persuaded Mr Bush that a more robust response was needed.

切尼可能劝说布什相信美国需要强硬的回应。

The real beef with Mr Cheney is that so much of his advice has turned out badly.

真正的“牛肉”出在切尼的太多计策后果不堪。

Obama's speech was watched live on television by the audience at the Cheney event.

观众们通过电视直播观看了奥巴马针对切尼的演说。

I said that he needed more Bush and Cheney in his personality, and my audience went nuts.

我还说他的个性里需要多一些布什和采尼的特点，然后观众们想起一片喝彩声。

Family friend Donald Vinson of Wyoming gave Cheney 12 bottles of assorted wines valued at $699.

切尼家的朋友、怀俄明州的唐纳德·文森送给切尼12瓶酒，价值699美元。

Unlike Mr Powell, Ms Rice will not try to be a counterweight to Messrs Cheney and Rumsfeld.

不同于鲍威尔，赖斯不会充当制衡切尼和拉姆斯菲尔德的角色。

Cheney says that the CIA torture probe is a terrible idea and should never have been authorized.

切尼说CIA的虐囚调查是一个糟糕的注意，永远都不应该得到授权。

And to get that information, Cheney admits that he had to waterboard himself. "— David letterman."

为了得到这条消息，切尼承认说他不得不给自己上水刑。

Typical of his work is a 1933 picture of a model wearing a patterned dress by a designer named Cheney.

他的典型作品是1933年的一张照片，照片上是一位模特，身着切尼设计师设计的有图案的裙子。

Cheney has been even more committed than his former boss in defending the vestiges of the Bush legacy.

切尼甚至比他的前任老板更忠心地维护布什时代遗留下的政策。

Mr Cheney, in other words, knew how to get things done. For the most part, he put that skill to poor use.

换句话说，切尼懂得如何处理事情，却多半不去运用。

As he goes, Bush tells him that in the future, when they are with other people, Cheney is not to talk.

在切尼离开时布什还告诉他，将来他们俩和其他人在一起的时候，切尼不准说话。

His energy policy was written by Mr Cheney with the help of a handful of cronies from the energy industry.

他的能源措施由切尼先生和少数大能源集团起草。

The hawks, led by Mr Cheney, advocated a military strike to disable Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons programme.

切尼领导的鹰派成员，号召对伊朗进行军事打击，以挫败其可能存在的核武计划。

Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, once two of the most powerful men in this country, are now suffering from Balzheimer's disease.

迪克·切尼和卡尔·罗夫，曾经是这个国家最有权势的两个人，现在得了老年痴呆。

Dick Cheney appears less a brooding presence and more a red-faced buffoon, which may well be how history comes to regard him.

迪克·切尼似乎没有那么沉思，更多的像个面红耳赤的丑角，这也可能是历史对他的看法。

A precipitate withdrawal might make that true, but Mr Cheney deserves his share of the blame for the state of Iraq today.

火速撤军或许会让切尼一语成谶，但是造成伊拉克的今天，切尼则无法逃避所该遭到的谴责。

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears", once said by John Vance Cheney, tells us the significance of adversity.

“若非一番寒彻骨，哪得梅花扑鼻香”，正如约翰·万斯·切尼所言，它阐释了逆境的重要性。

LAUREN CHENEY: "Not only is she at the right place at the right time, but she has more heart than anybody that I've ever played with."

切尼：“不仅是因为她总是能适时出现，她还比任何我曾经合作过的球员更有勇气。”

But in fact Mr Obama passes the Cheney test fairly well, providing a well-calibrated combination of toughness and strategic innovation.

但事实上奥巴马很好地通过了切尼的测验，他提出了一个更为精准的结合强硬和战略革新的组合体。