held the governorship for six years.

担任了六年的州长

The party regulars slated the Manhattan district leader for the governorship .

该党的忠诚分子提名曼哈顿区的领导人竞选州长。

Californians elected actor Ronald Reagan to the governorship back in 1966, so what’s so strange about choosing Arnold Schwarzenegger?

加州人民1966年曾经选举了电影演员里根作为州长，那么这次选施瓦辛格为什么显得很奇怪呢?

She looked on the governorship as a steppingstone to the presidency.

她把州长之职当作进身总统职位的踏脚石。

He looked on the governorship as a stepping-stone to the presidency.

他把州长职位看成是谋求总统职位的进身之阶。

||1:Worse, Utah’s famously tough and complicated rules on the way drinks are stored and served in bars and restaurants have been growing more restrictive, not less so.||2:The shackles had loosened a bit during the governorship of Jon Huntsman, whose administration worried that jokes about being “slower than Salt Lake City on a Saturday night” were a turn-off to party-minded skiers (Utah has some of the best slopes in North America).||3:Bars no longer had to set themselves up as private clubs that charged would-be drinkers membership fees, for instance.||4:After Mr Huntsman left to become Barack Obama’s ambassador to China, however, the reactionaries regained the initiative.

||1:更加糟糕的是，犹他州在酒类存储和销售路径方面的严格限制非但没有放松反而变得更加苛刻。||2:在JONHUNTSMAN任犹他州州长期间对酒类销售的限制曾有所放松，因为他担心他的官员们害怕那些关于“周六晚上比盐湖城还迟钝”的笑话会让想要狂欢的滑雪游客避开犹他。||3:（犹他有一些全北美洲最好的滑雪坡）至少从现在看，酒吧不用像私人俱乐部那样向可能的饮酒者收取会费。||4:后来亨斯顿进入奥巴马政府并去了中国任驻华大使，反对酒类销售的人又开始活跃起来。

||1:His political balancing act reflects his enigmatic figure.||2:He is much less charismatic than his immediate predecessors, Rick Perry and George W. Bush, and—deep into his second gubernatorial term—less well-known.||3:Having ascended to the governorship via the state Supreme Court bench and attorney-general’s office, he has never faced a tough election.||4:Many Texans have no idea even that he is wheelchair-bound, owing to a freak tree-fall accident he suffered as a teenager— though his courage in battling back from that tragedy is his most admirable quality.||5:Politically, too, Mr Abbott has managed to remain usefully indeterminate.

||1:他的政治平衡行为反映了他令人费解的形象。||2:他的魅力远不如他的前任，里克·佩里和乔治·沃克·布什，而且在他的第二个州长任期内也不那么出名。||3:他通过州最高法院和总检察长办公室升任州长，从未面临过艰难的选举。||4:许多德克萨斯人甚至不知道他是坐轮椅的，因为他十几岁时遭遇了一次奇怪的树木坠落事故，尽管他从那场悲剧中奋力反抗的勇气是他最令人钦佩的品质。||5:在政治上雅培也设法保持了不确定性，这很有用。

||1:In part, this is a story about the professionalisation of politics.||2:Even unwinnable House races are now monitored by cold-eyed number-crunchers.||3:Both parties fear zealous amateurs who may pollute their national brand.||4:They also fret about the effect that one race may have on another.||5:For example, in Massachusetts Republicans have a good chance of winning the governorship so long as turnout is not too high (because conservatives are more likely to vote).||6:So a strong Republican challenge in a close House race might be counter-productive, spurring Democrats to pour in resources, raising turnout and kneecapping the chances of the Republican in the more important race.

||1:在某种程度上，这是个政治职业化的故事。||2:即使是坚不可摧的众议院竞选如今也在眼神冷峻的统计师们的监控之下。||3:两党都担忧热心的党外人士会败坏他们在国内树立的品牌形象。||4:他们同样也烦恼一场竞选会影响另一个。||5:例如，在马萨诸塞州，只要出席率不高，共和党就很有可能赢得州长职位，因为在这种情况下保守党们更可能会投票。||6:因此共和党在最近的众议院竞选中发起的有力挑战，很可能会适得其反，刺激民主党们大量投入资源，提高出席率，削弱共和党在更加重要的竞选中获胜的几率。

||1:After a manual recount, Rick Scott, a Republican, won Florida’s Senate race, snatching the seat from a Democratic incumbent of 18 years.||2:Ron DeSantis, another Republican, won the governor’s race.||3:In Georgia Stacey Abrams acknowledged that her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp, had won the governorship , but claimed that the election had been neither free nor fair.

||1:在一次人工重新计票后，共和党人里克·斯科特(Rick Scott)在佛罗里达州的参议院选举中胜出，从一位在任18年的民主党人手中夺取了席位。||2:另一位共和党人罗恩·德桑提斯(Ron DeSantis)赢得了州长竞选。||3:在乔治亚州，斯泰西·艾布拉姆斯承认对手——共和党布莱恩·坎普赢得了州长一职，但声称选举既不自由也不公平。

Republicans now control both chambers in 30 state legislatures, while the Democrats control 11 and eight are split. In 24 states Republican power is unchecked—meaning they control the legislature and the governorship . The party has not had this much clout in the states since the 1920s.

如今，共和党控制了两院30个州立法机关，相比而言，民主党则控制了11个，8个处于分裂状态。其中在24个州，共和党的权利未加抑制—这意味着他们控制了立法机关和州长。自20世纪20年代以来，共和党从未具有如此大的影响力。

In 1982 Bradley ran for the governorship of California, and was expected to win by a wide margin.

1982年，布兰德利竞选加州州长，被认为是有巨大优势赢得选举的热门人选。

Most contenders for the governorship , including Mr Asano, oppose the Olympics bid.

包括浅野在内的多数候选人都表示反对日本再次申办奥运会。

Much later he reflected: "I’d still say yes if the governorship of Bermuda came up. "

很久之后，他回忆道：“如果当时百慕大总督来找我（做事），我还是会答应的。”

Richard Nixon "retired" in 1962 after losing an election for the governorship of California.

理查德·尼克松1962年“退休”后，在加利福尼亚州长选举中失败。

Democrats seized the governorship in Hawaii and, as The Economist went to press, seemed set to win those in Minnesota and Connecticut.

民主党拿下了夏威夷，而且在本文出版之时，有望再赢得明尼苏达和康涅狄格两州。

The second thing that bothered me was the difficulties a campaign would pose for my governorship .

让我烦恼的第二件事是竞选总统活动将对我履行州长的职责造成困难。

Mr Schwarzenegger’s lazy governorship could come to be seen not as the great missed opportunity, but as the spur for reform.

施瓦辛格这一懒散市长或许可以被看成是推动改革的动力而非措施的机遇。

He has learned from his own mistakes (his stab at the governorship in 2002 was a disaster), but also Mr Spitzer’s.

他从自己过去的错误中（2002年他曾试图竞选州长结果一败涂地）和前任州长施皮策身上都吸取了教训。

Chris Christie is easily leading Jon Corzine in the race for New Jersey’s governorship .

在角逐新泽西州州长的竞选中，克莉丝-克里斯蒂遥遥领先于乔恩-科赞。