Throw under the bus: 1) to exploit someone’s trust for one’s own purpose or gain; to harm someone through deceit or treachery 為了己利犧牲他人

2) to avoid blame, trouble or criticism by allowing others to take the responsibility

讓別人擔責以逃避指責或麻煩

Examples:  1) Tommy was caught with drugs in his backpack, but he threw me under the bus and said it belonged to me.

2) The manager never hesitates to throw an underling under the bus when something goes wrong in the office.

(CNN, 7/24, 2017)

Chuck Schumer Just Threw Hillary Clinton under the Bus

舒默參議院把希拉蕊柯林頓推下水

In the 2016 campaign, there was no one more loyal to Hillary Clinton than her one-time Senate colleague Chuck Schumer. He defended his fellow New Yorker and the race she ran at every turn. Which makes what Schumer said about Clinton over the weekend all the more intriguing.

“When you lose to somebody who has 40% popularity, you don’t blame other things — Comey, Russia — you blame yourself,” Schumer, the top ranking Democrat in the Senate, told the Washington Post over the weekend. “So what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.”

2016年總統大選時，沒有人比曾經是希拉蕊柯林頓同事的聯邦參議員舒默更忠心耿耿的了。他在希拉蕊競選途中處處替她這個紐約州同鄉講話，所以他本周末關於柯林頓的談話格外讓人好奇。

參議院職級最高的舒默參議員，周末接受華盛頓郵報訪問時表示，[假如你輸給民調支持率40%的人，你不該怪(聯調局局長)柯米或是俄國人，而要怪自己。要想我們民主黨究竟哪裡做得不對。選民不知道我們代表什麼，只知道我們反川普。他們到現在還這麼想。]

 

(New York Times, March 8, 2018)

“Trump sees himself as a master negotiator, and yet he is not particularly good at it,” said Colin Kahl, a former national security official under Mr. Obama. “He isn’t thoughtful or steeped in the types of details required for this type of diplomacy. He is prone to manipulation and flattery. He often makes threats he doesn’t follow through on and promises he can’t or won’t keep. And he often throws allies under the bus. This does not add up to a recipe for success, and the stakes could not be higher.”

曾經在歐巴馬總統任內擔任國家安全官員的Kahl說，[川普自認是談判大師，但他不見得特別高明。他既不心思縝密，也不擅於掌握這種外交所需要的細節。而且他易於操弄，逢迎拍馬對他有效。他常出語威脅，卻不實施，也常承諾，卻不願意或是無法履行。他也常把盟邦推下水，凡此種種都不是通往成功的元素，風險是極高的。]

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