And Brown notes that even among members of the president's own Democratic Party, only 49 percent of voters say the Nobel Committee made the right choice.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

He took the Democratic Party to the right, i.e., towards the center in order to pick up those central voters and win.

他将民主党向右翼靠拢,也就是说变得中立,以此来拉拢中间选民并获胜

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

They were very suspicious of the democratic tendencies, or so it seemed, the democratic tendencies of that northern society which was spreading literacy more widely, and eventually the right to vote more widely, at least among white people.

他们也对民主倾向表示怀疑,事实就是如此,有着民主倾向的北方社会,文化教育的开展更为广泛,因而更广大人民有着投票权,至少大部分白人有投票权

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating cut fuel lines at the Virginia home of Democratic Representative Tom Perriello's brother, whose address was posted online by a right-wing blogger who said it was the lawmaker's address.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

So this is a subtle thing because you think about the current election, there's a debate about whether Hilary Clinton, for example, can choose right now to be at the center of the democratic party given her past history of votes, for example, on the Iraq War.

这是个微妙的事情,因为你联想到现在的选举,举个例子,关于希拉里·克林顿能否选择,作为民主党竞选中间派参选就颇有争议,考虑到她的参选记录,例如在伊拉克战争中

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"We need to scale up our efforts delivered in Haiti, but we also need to ensure that children all over the world in the Horn of Africa, in Afghanistan,in Pakistan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Sudan,in Chad all these children actually deserve and have the right to the same assistance as children everywhere else,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.04