Despite being a card-carrying member(正式成员，铁杆成员) of the International Order of Confirmed Homosexuals, I have spent quite a lot of time lately thinking about Abdul El-Sayed’s biceps(肱二头肌). I mean, have you seen them? The progressive Michigan senate nominee is jacked(肌肉发达的，健壮的) and he knows it. He almost always wears a tight black T-shirt to show off(炫耀，卖弄) his muscles and incorporates(包含，纳入) a lot of fitness content in his campaign.
尽管我是“国际认证同性恋者组织”的正式成员，但最近我却花了不少时间琢磨阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德的肱二头肌。我是说，你见过吗？这位密歇根州进步派参议员候选人肌肉发达，他自己也心知肚明。他几乎总穿一件紧身黑色T恤来炫耀肌肉，并在竞选中融入了大量健身内容。
I’m not the only one who has noticed El-Sayed’s prominent(突出的，显眼的) muscles. They have had a lot of coverage(新闻报道，覆盖范围), and are seen as part of a wider attempt to rebrand(重塑形象，品牌重塑) the Democratic party. Which, I don’t need to tell you, has a serious image problem; a poll in March found that the party is looked on even less favourably than the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. So, to make it look less like a party that is full of out-of-touch technocrats who sound as if they are reading from a 500-page PowerPoint presentation every time they try to explain anything, Democrats seem to be trying to up the sex appeal.(因此，为了让民主党看起来不那么像一个充满脱离实际的专家治国论者的政党——这些人每次试图解释任何事情时，听起来都像是在朗读一份500页的PowerPoint演示文稿——民主党人似乎正试图提升性感魅力。)
注意到埃尔-赛义德那引人注目的肌肉的可不止我一个。这些肌肉获得了大量报道，被视为重塑民主党形象这一更广泛尝试的一部分。不用我说你也知道，民主党存在严重的形象问题；三月份的一项民调发现，该党的受欢迎程度甚至还不如美国移民和海关执法局。因此，为了让民主党看起来不那么像一个充满脱离实际的专家治国论者的政党——这些人每次试图解释任何事情时，听起来都像是在朗读一份500页的PowerPoint演示文稿——民主党人似乎正试图提升性感魅力。
“Democrats enter their thirst trap(诱饵，性感照片/视频) era,” News website Axios recently declared(宣称，宣布), summing up(总结，概括) the phenomenon. The piece(文章，报道) observed(评论说，指出) that the Democrats’ main TikTok page has given “the thirst trap treatment” to big names(大人物，知名人士) including El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani and senator Jon Ossoff (“nicknamed ‘Senator My Boo’ by internet fans”), by posting flirty(调情的，卖弄风情的) photos and videos. Axios quotes a political analyst who explains that while female Democrats such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have had their share of(获得了他们应得的一份) screen time(出镜时间，屏幕时间), the Dems’ TikTok page has made a “very intentional(故意的，有意的) choice to feature(以……为特色，突出) the most attractive male members”.
“民主党进入他们的‘诱饵’时代，”新闻网站Axios最近宣称，总结了这一现象。该报道指出，民主党的主要TikTok页面通过发布调情照片和视频，对包括埃尔-赛义德、佐赫兰·马姆达尼和参议员乔恩·奥索夫（被网友昵称为“我的宝贝参议员”）在内的知名人物进行了“诱饵式处理”。Axios援引一位政治分析人士的话说，虽然亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯等女性民主党人也获得了一定的出镜时间，但民主党的TikTok页面“非常刻意地选择突出最具吸引力的男性成员”。