zh-cn	当特朗普宣布自己是战时总统并称新冠病毒是美国敌人的时候，美国正面临这样的可怕前景：美国死于新冠病毒的人数最终可能超过美国在朝鲜战争、越南战争、阿富汗战争和伊拉克战争中死亡人数的总和。 
en-us	By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. 

zh-cn	美国已经采取了一系列历史上从未同时颁布的战时措施——禁止来自两大洲的外国旅客入境，基本停止贸易活动，招募其他行业制造紧急医疗设备，将2.3亿美国人困在自己家中，以期扛住一个看不见的对手的攻击。 
en-us	The country has adopted an array of wartime measures never employed collectively in U.S. history — banning incoming travelers from two continents, bringing commerce to a near-halt, enlisting industry to make emergency medical gear, and confining 230 million Americans to their homes in a desperate bid to survive an attack by an unseen adversary. 

zh-cn	尽管采取了这样那样的极端措施，美国可能还是会在历史上留下这样一笔：一个本该为抗击流行病做好最充分的准备的国家，最终却被新冠病毒击败，遭遇灾难性打击，死亡人数超过其他任何国家。 
en-us	Despite these and other extreme steps, the United States will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation. 

zh-cn	事情本不该如此。
en-us	It did not have to happen this way. 

zh-cn	尽管没有做好充分的准备，但与几十个最终在抵御病毒方面表现得好得多的国家相比，美国拥有更多的专业知识、资源、计划和流行病学经验。 
en-us	Though not perfectly prepared, the United States had more expertise, resources, plans and epidemiological experience than dozens of countries that ultimately fared far better in fending off the virus. 

zh-cn	这一失败让人想起了“9·11事件”
en-us	The failure has echoes of the period leading up to 9/11: 

zh-cn	发生前的一切：包括政府最高层在内的各方都发出了警告，但时任美国总统对这些警告充耳不闻，直到敌人发动攻击。 
en-us	Warnings were sounded, including at the highest levels of government, but the president was deaf to them until the enemy had already struck. 

zh-cn	美国疾病控制与预防中心于12月31日获悉中国出现大量新冠病毒病例，并于1月1日开始为美国卫生与公众服务部编写报告。 
en-us	The CDC learned of a cluster of cases in China on Dec. 31 and began developing reports for HHS on Jan. 1.  

zh-cn	1月3日，特朗普政府收到关于新冠病毒在中国暴发的第一个正式通知。
en-us	The Trump administration received its first formal notification of the outbreak of the coronavirus in China on Jan. 3. 

zh-cn	几天内，美国情报机构首次在总统每日简报中就这种冠状病毒威胁的严重性向总统发出警报，之后又发出了多次警报。 
en-us	Within days, U.S. spy agencies were signaling the seriousness of the threat to Trump by including a warning about the coronavirus — the first of many — in the President’s Daily Brief. 

zh-cn	然而，在其他方面，情况已经失控，西雅图的病例成倍增加，公众提出的问题越来越多，没有任何措施阻止来自境外的受感染旅客。 
en-us	In other ways, though, the situation was already spinning out of control, with multiplying cases in Seattle, intransigence by the Chinese, mounting questions from the public, and nothing in place to stop infected travelers from arriving from abroad. 

zh-cn	尽管特朗普政府较低级别的官员已经开始一系列准备工作，但直到1月18日才有卫生官员向总统详细汇报有关新冠病毒暴发的情况，当时特朗普正在海湖庄园度周末，卫生部长阿扎尔向他做了电话汇报。 
en-us	Despite the flurry of activity at lower levels of his administration, Trump was not substantially briefed by health officials about the coronavirus until Jan.18, when, while spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, he took a call from Azar. 

zh-cn	当时，特朗普深陷弹劾战泥潭，他被指试图从乌克兰领导人那里获得政治好处。
en-us	At the time, Trump was in the throes of an impeachment battle over his alleged attempt to coerce political favors from the leader of Ukraine. 

zh-cn	共和党掌控的参议院似乎肯定会判他无罪，但特朗普当时满脑子都是这场官司，深夜还打电话给几位议员吵吵嚷嚷，并且列了几份黑名单准备秋后算账。 
en-us	Acquittal seemed certain by the GOP-controlled Senate, but Trump was preoccupied with the trial, calling lawmakers late at night to rant, and making lists of perceived enemies he would seek to punish when the case against him concluded. 

zh-cn	阿扎尔告诉几名助手，总统认为他“危言耸听” ， 阿扎尔则努力让特朗普关注病毒暴发的问题，甚至为此向一名密友征求意见。 
en-us	Azar told several associates that the president believed he was “alarmist” and Azar struggled to get Trump’s attention to focus on the issue, even asking one confidant for advice. 

zh-cn	1月21日，一名最近去过武汉的西雅图男子新冠病毒检测呈阳性，成为美国本土第一例已知感染病例。 
en-us	On Jan. 21, a Seattle man who had recently traveled to Wuhan tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first known infection on U.S. soil.  

zh-cn	1月22日，特朗普在达沃斯接受CNBC采访时第一次被问及新冠病毒。
en-us	On Jan. 22, Trump received his first question about the coronavirus in an interview on CNBC while in Davos. 

zh-cn	当被问及他是否担心潜在的流行病时，特朗普说：“不担心，一点儿都不担心。
en-us	Asked whether he was worried about a potential pandemic, Trump said, “No. Not at all. 

zh-cn	我们已经完全控制住了。” 
en-us	And we have it totally under control. ” 

zh-cn	在华盛顿，时任代理幕僚长米克·马尔瓦尼和波廷格开始在白宫召集卫生与公众服务部、疾控中心和国务院的高级官员开会。 
en-us	In Washington, then-acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Pottinger began convening meetings at the White House with senior officials from HHS, the CDC and the State Department. 

zh-cn	工作组于1月29日正式成立。 
en-us	The task force was formally announced on Jan. 29. 

zh-cn	中国的防疫举措终于促使特朗普政府采取相应的行动。
en-us	That move by Beijing finally prompted a commensurate action by the Trump administration. 

zh-cn	1月31日，阿扎尔宣布了限制措施，禁止过去两周在中国停留的非美国公民进入美国。 
en-us	On Jan. 31, Azar announced restrictions barring any non-U.S. citizen who had been in China during the preceding two weeks from entering the United States. 

zh-cn	特朗普将这种限制措施作为证据，表明他在疫情暴发之初就做出了积极回应，这也不是毫无道理。
en-us	Trump has, with some justification, pointed to the China-related restriction as evidence that he had responded aggressively and early to the outbreak. 

zh-cn	这是整个危机期间符合特朗普本能的、为数不多的干预选择之一。他似乎总是专注于划定边界，将外国人挡在国门之外。 
en-us	It was among the few intervention options throughout the crisis that played to the instincts of the president, who often seems fixated on erecting borders and keeping foreigners out of the country. 

zh-cn	新冠疫情可能是特朗普在任职期间面临的第一场真正的危机。这场危机中，显而易见的事实是，死亡人数和感染人数早已成千上万，并且还在上升——事实如此残酷，以至于特朗普的厚黑术都失效了。 
en-us	The coronavirus may be the first crisis Trump has faced in office where the facts — the thousands of mounting deaths and infections — are so devastatingly evident that they defy these tactics. 

zh-cn	过去数月，特朗普一直淡化新冠病毒的严重性，抵制要求采取严厉措施加以遏制的呼吁，并给自己加冕为战时总统，现在他似乎终于屈服于新冠病毒肆虐的现实。
en-us	After months of dismissing the severity of the coronavirus, resisting calls for austere measures to contain it, and recasting himself as a wartime president, Trump seemed finally to succumb to the coronavirus reality. 

zh-cn	总统上个月在椭圆形办公室与共和党伙伴会面时说，他的竞选不再重要，因为他的连任将取决于他如何应对这场新冠危机。
en-us	In a meeting with a Republican ally in the Oval Office last month, the president said his campaign no longer mattered because his reelection would hinge on his coronavirus response.