Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr promised to invest heavily in infrastructure, mitigate the impact of climate change and “shed the last bead of sweat” for his countrymen as he took office as the Philippines’ 17th president.
小费迪南德•马科斯(Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr)在就职菲律宾第17任总统时承诺，将大力投资基础设施，减轻气候变化的影响，并为其国民“流下最后一滴汗”。
Marcos, the country’s first president to be elected by a majority of the popular vote since his father Ferdinand Marcos, invoked the late dictator’s legacy and that of Rodrigo Duterte, the outgoing populist president, on Thursday.
小马科斯是菲律宾自其父亲费迪南德•马科斯(Ferdinand Marcos)以来首位通过在普选中获得多数票当选的总统。周四，他提及了这位已故独裁者和即将离任的民粹主义总统罗德里戈•杜特尔特(Rodrigo Duterte)的遗产。
“My father built more and better roads, produced more rice than all administrations before his,” said Marcos Jr, wearing a white barong, a traditional Filipino shirt. “President Rodrigo Roa Duterte built more and better than all administrations succeeding my father’s.”
穿着白色巴隆(一种菲律宾传统衬衫)的小马科斯说：“我的父亲修建了更多更好的道路，生产了比他之前所有政府都多的大米。罗德里戈•杜特尔特总统比我父亲之后的所有政府建设得更多、更好。”
Marcos is taking power at a time when the south-east Asian nation of 110mn is struggling to keep its economy on keel after the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic while balancing relations between the US, its traditional ally, and regional hegemon China.
小马科斯上台之际，正值这个拥有1.1亿人口的东南亚国家努力保持其经济在新冠疫情造成破坏后平稳运转，同时平衡好其传统盟友美国与地区霸主中国之间的关系。