A key theme in this year’s presidentialrace is competitiveness of American industry, though candidates like DonaldTrump and Bernie Sanders tend to use more colorful language when describingtheir belief that the United States has lost its economic edge.

今年总统竞选的一个关键主题就是美国工业的竞争力，尽管在描述美国已经失去经济优势的信念时，川普和桑德斯都喜欢用更加丰富多彩的语言。

Both candidates despise recent trade deals,which they feel have proven that the U.S. can’t compete with countries likeChina and Vietnam, which have far cheaper labor and less onerous environmentalregulations.

两个候选人都鄙视最近的贸易协议，因为他们觉得这些贸易协议证明了美国无法和中国以及越南这样的国家竞争，两国劳动力更加便宜而且环境法规也没有那么严格。

But if you ask actual manufacturingexecutives, they’re far more bullish on America’s future than many of itspolitical leaders. On Thursday, professional services firm Deloitte teamed upwith the Council on Competitiveness torelease its 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index, showingthat the United States is the second most competitive manufacturing economyafter China. What’s more, global manufacturing executives predict that by 2020,the United States will be the most competitive manufacturing economy in theworld.

但是如果你询问实际的制造业经理人，他们比很多美国领导人都更加看好美国的未来。周四，德勤会计师事务所和竞争力委员会一起发布了2016年全球制造业竞争力指数，表明美国是位于中国之后的世界第二最具竞争力经济体。此外，全球制造业经理人预测到2020年美国将成为世界上最具竞争力的制造业国家。