Yesterday, the Senate passed the nuclear option.

昨天, 参议院通过了核选项。

We still have the nuclear option.

我们还可以选择核弹。

And then, there's the nuclear option.

然后是核选项。

Our April 5th show defined terms like filibuster and the nuclear option.

我们的 4 月 5 日展示了定义的术语，例如阻挠议事和核选项。

So if the board took the nuclear option, then shareholders could lose a lot more than 12% of their holdings.

因此， 如果董事会采取核选项，那么股东损失的股份可能远超 12%。

In 2013, Harry Reid, after months and months of threatening to deploy the nuclear option actually did it.

2013 年，哈里·里德 (Harry Reid) 在数月威胁要部署核选项后实际上做到了。

The one thing to know about the nuclear option is you may not understand it, but it does really matter.

关于核选项需要知道的一件事是你可能不理解它，但它确实很重要。

And in the back and forth between the political parties, both a filibuster and the nuclear option came into play yesterday.

在政党之间的来回较量中，阻挠议事和核选项都在昨天发挥了作用。

What's interesting about the filibuster and the nuclear option is that neither of them is actually mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.

阻挠议事和核选项的有趣之处在于，它们都没有在美国宪法中实际提及。

It's known as the nuclear option and it makes it easier for a majority party to overcome a filibuster.

它被称为核选项，它使多数党更容易克服阻挠议事。

But if you use the nuclear option, you take that 60-vote margin and take it down to a majority 51-vote threshold.

但如果你使用核选项，你将把 60 票的优势降低到 51 票的多数门槛。

The dangers of the nuclear option—one of the partners pulling out of the coalition, triggering a Conservative minority government followed by a new election are a robust deterrent.

联合政府的任意一方退出，将使得保守党以劣势参加本次大选，其后果不堪设想。因此双方都有效地得到遏制，不作退出。

After yesterday's move to invoke the nuclear option, both parties have now used the controversial rule change and this time around, it was expected to lead to the confirmation of Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

在昨天援引核选项的举动之后，双方现在都使用了有争议的规则变更， 而这一次，预计将导致戈萨奇法官获得最高法院的确认。