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Sarah Palin has metamorphosed into a media star, multi-millionaire and tea-party pin-up.
莎拉•佩林已经化身为媒体之星、千万巨富、及茶党的形象代言人。
The economy dominated the 2008 campaign, and more recently, the “tea-party” movement has been more vocal on fiscal questions than on social issues like abortion.
但2008年是经济话题主宰大选，近期茶党的运动也主要围绕财政问题，而没有过多地关注堕胎等社会问题。
What is more surprising is that, as the tea-party movement surged through the 2010 election cycle, Texas actually turned out to be one of the less incendiary states.
比这个更让人吃惊的是，茶党的运动在2010年中选的过程中飙升，但事实上德州其实是一个缺乏政治煽动性的州。

Third-term Representative Michele Bachmann is a Republican from Minnesota and a favorite of the Tea Party movement.
Tea Party activists see themselves as modern-day versions of the anti-tax protesters from before the American Revolution.
The name comes from the Boston Tea Party, a colonial tax protest in seventeen seventy-three.

Some fear that the tea-party victories may cost the Republicans their chance of retaking the Senate.
ECONOMIST: Primary elections

an occasion when people meet in the afternoon to drink tea and eat a small amount of food

A tea party is a social gathering in the afternoon at which tea, cakes, and sandwiches are served.