拜登自传速读PromisesToKeep(10)

他似乎不太可能赢。不过，他还是决定试一试，并任命妹妹瓦莱丽为竞选经理。她进行了一次细致的竞选活动，在每个街区都进行了仔细的拉票。
And Biden found that he connected well with both sides of the political divide. Middle-class Republicans and working-class Democrats both wanted the same thing: a healthy environment for their children to grow up in.
拜登发现，他与政治分歧的双方都有很好的联系。中产阶级的共和党人和工人阶级的民主党人都想要一个相同的东西：给他们的孩子一个健康的成长环境。
Biden’s efforts to connect with voters worked. He won the seat by 2,000 votes – even though the Democrats suffered big losses in the rest of the state. And he wasted no time in making use of his new powers.
拜登与选民沟通的努力奏效了。他以2000票的优势赢得了这个席位，尽管民主党在该州其他地方遭受了巨大的损失。他毫不浪费时间利用他的新权力。
In particular, he tried to reign in the big developers, who were causing environmental devastation in the area. In the early 1970s, there were few environmental regulations. Shell had been allowed to buy several thousand acres of prime coastal land to build a new oil refinery. And, to make matters worse, developers had begun digging up swaths of land to build mega highwayscrisscrossing towns. The result was high levels of air pollution and problems with waste disposal.