Do people still say a car was “sold for parts(拆件出售)”? Because the US is being sold for parts or just handed over to the oligarchy(寡头政治). It’s a fire sale(清仓大甩卖), a bankruptcy auction, it’s a planned dismantling(拆解，拆除) of everything from its military to its institutions of higher education to its scientific research to its public lands.
人们还会说一辆车被“拆件出售”吗？因为美国正在被拆件出售，或者干脆被拱手交给寡头集团。这是一场清仓大甩卖，一场破产拍卖，是一场蓄谋已久的拆解，从军队到高等教育机构，从科学研究到公共土地，无一幸免。
And while the threat to sell off part of Yosemite national park is about a quarter-mile parcel(一块地，地块) on the park’s edge, Yosemite is a crown jewel(皇冠上的明珠) in the national park system and, arguably(可以说，可论证地), the world’s first national park.
尽管出售约塞米蒂国家公园部分土地的威胁仅涉及公园边缘一块四分之一英里的小地块，但约塞米蒂是国家公园体系中的皇冠明珠，可以说也是世界上第一个国家公园。
To let any bit of it be sold off for the benefit of a corporation’s planned development on the park’s western border would compromise(损害，危及) the inviolability(不可侵犯性) of national parks and sacrifice public good for the sake of(为了…的利益) private profit. This is of course the ongoing agenda(议程，行动计划) of the Trump administration.
允许任何一小块土地被出售，以利于一家公司在该公园西部边界规划的开发项目，这将损害国家公园的不可侵犯性，并为私人利益牺牲公共利益。这当然是特朗普政府一直在推进的议程。