Neil Kinnock is best known in America as the man whose oratory Joe Biden plagiarised(剽窃，抄袭). In 1987 Mr Biden was so taken by the British Labour Party leader’s line about being the first of his family “in a thousand generations” to attend college that he borrowed it.(1987年，拜登被金诺克关于家族中第一个上大学的话深深打动，以至于借用了它。) At first, with due credit. Then, on television, without. The ensuing furore(轰动，骚动) helped sink(使失败，使沉没) Mr Biden’s first run for the presidency.
尼尔·金诺克在美国最为人知的身份，是乔·拜登抄袭其演讲的那个人。1987年，拜登先生被这位英国工党领袖关于自己是家族中“一千代人以来”第一个上大学的人的说法深深打动，于是借用了这句话。起初，他注明了出处。后来，在电视上，却没有。随后的轩然大波帮助击沉了拜登先生第一次竞选总统的努力。
Yet Lord Kinnock, as he is now known, is not just the man who condemned(迫使，使陷入) Mr Biden to another 21 gruelling(折磨人的，艰难的) years in the Senate. He also helped make Britain’s main centre-left party electable again, by purging hard-left extremists(清除极左极端分子) who had infiltrated(渗透，潜入) it. His story is one the Democratic Party could usefully study.
然而，金诺克勋爵，正如他现在为人所知的那样，不仅仅是那个让拜登先生在参议院又熬过21年艰苦岁月的人。他还通过清除渗透进工党的极左极端分子，帮助英国主要的中间偏左政党重新变得有当选能力。他的故事是民主党可以借鉴的。
It, too, is struggling with infiltrators: the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a populist-left group that is on a roll(连续成功，势头正旺). The DSA stumbled(绊倒，失误) this week when Francesca Hong, who once called for abolishing the police, narrowly(勉强地，以微弱差距) lost the Democratic nomination to be Wisconsin’s next governor. But candidates backed by the DSA are winning enough primaries(初选), and making enough noise, to delight Republicans.
民主党同样也在与渗透者作斗争：美国民主社会主义者（DSA），一个正在风生水起的民粹左翼团体。本周，DSA遭遇挫折，曾呼吁废除警察的弗朗西斯卡·洪在威斯康星州州长民主党提名中以微弱劣势落败。但得到DSA支持的候选人正在赢得足够多的初选，并制造足够多的噪音，让共和党人感到高兴。
Exit, stage left
退场，舞台左侧