that I gave the wrong answer at a town hall meeting.

我在一次市民大会上答错了一个问题
What was the question?

什么问题
Is President Obama a socialist?

奥巴马总统是社会主义者吗
And your answer?

你的回答是什么
My answer was that I disagree with the man on how to run a government,

我回答说我虽然不赞同他的治国理念
but the talk of him being a socialist or a Marxist

但说他是社会主义者马克思主义者
or a Kenyan was a silly distraction.

或是肯尼亚人那完全是存心找事
You paid a big price for that.

对此你付出了惨痛代价
You were leading in the polls at the time.

当时的民调显示你是领先的
Will, there are brilliant conservative minds in the Republican Party.

威尔共和党内有很多杰出的保守派成员
And the individual price we are paying for not pretending to be crazy

这种装疯卖傻拉选票的代价太可怕了
is nothing compared to the price that the country

更可怕的是如此下去