A cataclysm(大灾难；剧变). A 9.0 earthquake. A five-alarm fire. A bitter rejection of Germany’s joyous reunification(重新统一) three decades ago, and a threat to the democratic postwar order(战后民主秩序).
一场大灾难。一次9.0级地震。一场五级火警。这是对三十年前德国那场欢欣鼓舞的统一的无情否定，也是对战后民主秩序的威胁。
Sizing up the repercussion(影响；反响（多指负面）)s of last weekend’s win for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party in the former communist state of Saxony-Anhalt(萨克森-安哈尔特州，德国东部联邦州), German commentators expressed a sense of doom, panic and helplessness in the political establishment.
在评估上周末极右翼政党德国选择党在前共产党执政的萨克森-安哈尔特州获胜所带来的影响时，德国评论人士对政界流露出一种末日降临、惊慌失措与无能为力的情绪。
With nearly 44% of the vote, the AfD fell three seats short of an absolute majority. Its media savvy chief candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, is racing to find enough support from the other parties to prop up what would be the first rightwing extremist state government since the Nazi period.(该党善于与媒体打交道的首席候选人乌尔里希·西格蒙德正争分夺秒地寻求其他政党的足够支持，以撑起一个将是纳粹时期以来首个右翼极端主义州政府。)
德国选择党拿下近44%的选票，距绝对多数仅差三个席位。该党善于与媒体打交道的首席候选人乌尔里希·西格蒙德正争分夺秒地寻求其他政党的足够支持，以撑起一个将是纳粹时期以来首个右翼极端主义州政府。