希拉里真正的戰鬥纔剛剛開始

Think what you will of Hillary Clinton, but nobody should question her endurance. After two marathon runs for the DeMocratic nomination, Mrs Clinton has finally made it across the finishing line. She is the first woman in US history to become a presidential nominee.

無論你怎麼看希拉里•克林頓(Hillary Clinton)，誰也不應質疑她的耐力。經過兩場馬拉松式的民主黨總統候選人提名競選活動，希拉里終於跨過了終點線。她是美國曆史上首位獲得總統候選人提名的女性。

Doubts will linger about how close she came to being humiliated by a socialist loner from Vermont. Even now Bernie Sanders is reluctant to rally behind her. Yet it is worth bearing in mind that she has prevailed in the least propitious of conditions. Establishment figures are struggling to cling on in all parts of the democratic world.

對於她一度幾乎被一個來自佛蒙特州的社會主義獨行俠羞辱，人們的疑慮揮之不去。即便現在伯尼•桑德斯(Bernie Sanders)也不願支持她。然而值得記住的是，她在最不利的局面下佔據了上風。目前建制派人士在民主世界的所有部分都面臨苦戰。

That said, Mrs Clinton’s harshest test is still very much before her. Unless, and until she can quell doubts about the quality of her campaign, the spectre of losing to Donald Trump will keep surfacing.

話雖如此，希拉里的最嚴峻考驗還在前面。除非（且直到）她能消除外界對其競選質量的疑慮，否則輸給唐納德•特朗普(Donald Trump)的幽靈將不斷浮現。

In the history of polling, nobody has yet made it to the White House with negative trust ratings. By any measure Mrs Clinton’s deficit is gaping. The fact that Mr Trump’s is even worse is no basis for complacency. Incredibly, given the latter’s tendency to denigrate women, Mrs Clinton is disliked by an even higher share of men than Mr Trump is disliked by women.

在民調的歷史上，從未有人在不信任比例超過一半的情況下問鼎白宮的。按任何標準衡量，希拉里獲得的不信任比例都令人震驚。特朗普的不信任比例甚至更高這個事實不是自滿的理由。令人難以置信的是，鑑於特朗普往往貶低女性，不喜歡希拉里的男性比例高於不喜歡特朗普的女性比例。

Overcoming this will be Mrs Clinton’s hardest task. The more she tries to seem authentic, the more she risks feeding the suspicion she is following a poll-dictated script. One solution would be to make herself far more available to public encounters. Too often her interactions with voters seem staged and wooden. Mrs Clinton has not held a press conference in six months, compared with dozens staged by Mr Trump.

克服這種挑戰將是希拉里最艱鉅的任務。她越是嘗試表現得真實，就越有可能讓人懷疑她是在按照民調決定的劇本行事。一個解決辦法將是讓她自己更頻繁地與公衆互動。她與選民的互動往往顯得刻意安排和死板。希拉里已有6個月沒有舉行記者會，而特朗普舉行了數十場。

A bigger step would be to pledge that she would close the Clinton Foundation if elected president. The potential conflict of interest is too glaring to ignore. The longer Mrs Clinton delays, the greater Mr Trump’s scope for branding the Clintons as creatures of global special interests. Whether or not the Department of Justice indicts Mrs Clinton and staff members for using a private server while she was secretary of state, she should be far more forthright in her contrition. The decision to bypass official channels was a mistake that reinforced the sense there is one rule for the Clintons and another for everyone else. By acknowledging this perception, and taking clear steps to address it, Mrs Clinton could undo much of the deep-seated mistrust.

更大的舉措將是承諾如果當選總統，她將關閉克林頓基金會(Clinton Foundation)。潛在的利益衝突過於明顯，令人無法忽視。希拉里在這件事上拖得越久，特朗普給克林頓家族貼上全球特殊利益產物標籤的空間就越大。無論美國司法部是否起訴希拉里和她手下的工作人員在她擔任國務卿期間使用私人服務器，她都應該更爲坦率地表明自己的悔恨。繞過官方渠道的決定是一個錯誤，它更讓人覺得克林頓夫婦適用一套規則，而其他人適用另一套規則。通過承認這種印象，然後採取明確步驟應對它，希拉里可能消除許多根深蒂固的不信任感。

None of this will be enough unless she can more clearly spell out why she wants to be president. At the moment Mrs Clinton’s campaign consists of two elements: that Mr Trump is too dangerous for the job and that she will deliver worthy accomplishments once she is in White House. The first is undoubtedly true. Mrs Clinton went some way last week towards defining the alarming consequences of a Trump presidency.

除非她能更清晰地表述她爲什麼要競選總統，否則這些都是不夠的。目前，希拉里的競選活動包含兩個元素：第一，讓特朗普擔當這個重任太危險，第二，一旦她入主白宮，她將提供有價值的成就。前一點無疑是對的。上週，希拉里在解釋特朗普當選總統的可怕後果方面取得了一些效果。

The second remains woefully nebulous. There are many good items on Mrs Clinton’s shopping list, such as boosting investment in infrastructure and updating workplace benefits to fit the 21st century economy better. But her message lacks a theme. The temptation is to believe she will win in November by uniting all the demographic groups Mr Trump has offended. That may be possible — even probable. But it is no basis for governing. Moreover, it fuels the popular notion that Mrs Clinton simply wants power for power’s sake.

可惜的是第二點仍然模糊。希拉里的願望清單裏有很多不錯的條目，例如加大基礎設施投資以及改革職場福利以更好地適應21世紀的經濟。但她傳達的信息缺乏主題。人們很容易認爲，她將通過團結特朗普冒犯的所有人羣來贏得11月大選。這或許是可能的，甚至是很有可能的。但這並非治國的基礎。另外，這助燃了一種流行的看法，即希拉里就是爲了權力纔想上臺的。

The coming weeks will be the most testing of Mrs Clinton’s career. Mr Trump will leave no rock unthrown in his quest to damage her reputation. The more Mrs Clinton can stake out a positive and clear vision for the White House, the better she will fortify herself against the ugliness to come.

未來幾周將是對希拉里事業的最嚴峻考驗。特朗普將不遺餘力地破壞她的聲譽。希拉里越能爲白宮提出一種積極且清晰的願景，她就越能抵禦即將出現的醜陋場面。