George W. Bush Babbles Like An Idiot 小布什搞笑语录集锦
“The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.”
- Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003
我们要打击恐怖主义包括侯赛因·萨达姆主要是因为他的本性，他的个人历史，和他要恐吓自己的意愿。
“I can’t hear you because I can’t see.”
- G.W. Bush from Journeys With George by Alexandra Pelosi, debuted on HBO Nov. 5, 2002 我听不到你说什么因为我看不见你。
“Our most abundant energy source is coal. We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.” — April 20, 2005, in Washington.
是present吧，而不是prevent。失之毫厘。。。
See，one of the interesting things in the Oval Office，I love to bring people into the Oval Office right around the corner from here and say，this is where office，but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person。"——GeorgeW.Bush,Washington,D.C.,Jan.29,2004
请看,有关椭圆形办公室的一件有趣的事是,我喜欢人们从这个角落进来参观椭圆形办公室。这就是我办公的地方，但是我想让你们知道的是,办公室总是比人大。
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, it’s probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me ... You can’t get fooled again.”
- G.W. Bush quoted by the Baltimore Sun - Oct 6, 2002
在田纳西州有句老话---我知道是在德州，但可能会是在田纳西州---这句话说到：。。。。。。 （这句谚语本来是“fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me” ）
“Do you have blacks too?” - Bush ignorantly asked Brazil’s President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Reported by the reputable German publication Der Spiegel. Rumor has it, Condoleza Rice interupted the president and explained in brief the African history in Brazil.
“你们这也有黑人？”布什无知地问巴西总统Fernando Henrique Cardoso。德国知名出版社Der Spiegel报道。谣言说：赖斯打断了布什并向他简略地介绍了非洲移民在巴西的历史。 “This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.” - G.W. Bush as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23rd, 2002
这个外交政策的内容确实是有些让人沮丧。
“And so, in my State of the—my State of the Union—or state—my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation—I asked Americans to give 4,000 years --4,000 hours over the next—the rest of your life—of service to America.”” - G.W. Bush. April 9th, 2002. Reported by the San Francisco Gate (among others)
在我的陈述国情，不对，国情陈述，不对，在我对全国的讲话中，也不对，不管你怎么叫它，总之是对全国的讲话中，我要求每个美国人拿出生命的四千年为国服务。
“{waves hello}”- G.W. Bush waves to the blind musician, Stevie Wonder, as reported by the Washington Post, March 6th, 2002
布什向盲人音乐家 Stevie Wonder 挥手打招呼。。。
“When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.” September 19th, 2001
当我采取措施时，我肯定不会点燃发射一枚2百万美元的导弹，结果却只射中了一个10美元的空帐篷，击中了一只骆驼的屁股。我要做到抉择明确有效。
“We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from
incredible disease.” Sweden, June 14, 2001
我们花了很多时间来谈论非洲，我想这是我们应该做的。毕竟非洲是遭受着不可思议的疾病的一个国家。
“There’s no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.” - Washington, D.C., May 11, 2001
无庸质疑，在我当选的那一分钟，地平线上的风暴已经接近我们的头顶上方了。
“Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself (见过这个单词吗？) and how far we’d be willing to go to defend Taiwan”. Good Morning America, April 25, 2001
“I’ve coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.” George W. Bush, who meant to say “misunderestimated(见过这个单词吗？)”, “They misunderestimated me.” Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”-Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 我知道人类跟鱼是能够和平共处的。
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”— Aug. 5, 2004, at the signing ceremony for a defense spending bill.
我们的敌人是不断求新并且足智多谋的，我们也是如此。他们从不停止想出新的方法来威胁和破坏我们的国家和我们的人民，同样，我们也是如此。
布什笑话名言录Bushism, neologism and malapropism
美国总统小乔治布什 (George Bush Jr.)在演说中经常犯错，被传媒广泛报道，历年来记录下来的有趣引语，已辑录成书，小乔治布什加上他父亲乔治布什(也是前任美国总统)的「名言」，已被冠上新称谓，统称 “Bushism”。当中不乏 “neologism”：新语汇，或旧词新解；也有 “malapropism”：可笑的近音词误用及其它 的“slip of the tongue” (一时口误)和 “blooper” (尴尬错失)等。
看看您能否找到总统的错误：
1. Rarely is the question asked : is our children learning ?
(很少人问这条问题：我们的孩子是在学习吗？)
2. They misunderestimated me.
(他们「误低估」我。)
3. I know how hard it is to put food on your family.
(我明白「把食物放上家庭」是困难的。)
4. Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
(家庭是我们国家找到希望的地方，也是「翅膀找到梦想」之处。)
5. Our enemies are resourceful and innovative, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
(我们的敌人是机敏和具创意的，我们亦然；他们从不停止思索新方法来损害我们的国家和人民，我们也一样。)
文法错误 自制新词新解
第一句是明显的英语文法错误，“children”是复数，不能用“is”，应这样问：“Are our children learning ?”。
第二句很有趣，总统是否太心急，想一句内说两个意思：“misunderstood”(误解)和 “underestimated”(低估)？于是甚具创意地制造了一个新词“misunderestimated”？这正正是 “neologism”的最佳例子。读者们也许可以向总统学习，自制新词新解。
第三句很明显是总统想用一句英语惯用语 (idioms)： “put food on the family table”，意思指维持生计，令家人得温饱。但说漏了一个 “table”，便闹出笑话来。
第四句也是犯了惯用语的错误，通常说“dreams take wings”，指梦想展翅飞翔、海阔天空寻理想。说成是“wings take dream”，便不知所谓了。这句另外一个错误是“Families”不可跟“is”，而应用“are”。
第五句前半段可以理解，也没犯错，“so are we” 指我们美国人跟敌人一般机敏和具创意；后半段简直吓坏人，“neither do we”，意思便是我们美国人也从不停止思索新方法来损害我们自己的国家和人民！
美国人幽默感强，拿总统来开玩笑也极寻常，美国杂志《Slate》的编辑Jacob Weisberg出书 《Bushisms》辑录无数「名句」，极受欢迎，在全球各国也成畅销书。美国教师 Dirk Schulze 更利用这些 Bushisms作了一首诗“Make the pie higher”，全国上下，传为佳话。