The SPD will soon run out of pet projects.

SPD即将完成其偏好型项目。

But the SPD is not the only one running risks.

但是SPD（社民党）不是唯一一个行进在危机中的党派。

Second, they are part of the SPD's wish list and are driven mainly by its ministers.

第二，些都是SPD愿望清单的一部分并且主要由其部长们发动。

The SPD candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz has already said his party has a clear mandate to rule.

社民党总理候选人奥拉夫·肖尔茨已经表示，社民党已有明确的执政授权。

And yet the SPD is in a terrible bind.

但社民党处于可怕的窘境中。

In Thuringia (as in the rest of Germany) the CDU rules in coalition with the SPD.

图林根州（德其他州也一样）由基民盟和社民党联合执政。

Thuringia's 4,300 SPD members are expected to say yes to the idea on November 4th.

图林根州中4300社民党人想在11月4个想法表示支持。

Relations with the SPD, happy to be in power but shocked not to be in charge, may be tricky.

和社民党的关系以及兴奋过后发现竟然不能掌权，些都是棘手的问题。

I mean, for example, the SPD and that part of the Greens did want to increase taxes on higher earners.

我的意思是，比如说社民党和绿党的部分人确实想高收入者增税。

Okay, so I want an SPD, and I want a Seattle agent in the room.

好 我需要派一个 西雅图警察跟一个探员到里。

The center-left Social Democratic Party, or SPD, is also part of the coalition.

中左翼社会民主党 (SPD) 也是联盟的一部分。

It is far from being a broad-based Volkspartei like the CDU and SPD, but it is happy in its expanding niche.

它与经验老道的基民盟以及社民党相比尚有大差距，然而他们在自己扩张的领域中自得其乐。

The SPD has paid dearly there, winning a meagre 12% of the vote in September.

社民党在图林根州付出高昂的代价，却仅仅在9月的选举中获得微薄的12%的选票。

The election is still a year away and the SPD wanted to spare its candidate a prolonged grilling.

距离大选还有一年，社民党不想让其候选人因为太早暴露而在接下来么长一段时间里受折磨。

Quite possibly, the pace will be forced by the SPD's departure from the coalition.

社民党退出联盟政府有可能将迫使其加快步伐。

But on issues that usually matter more, like jobs, economic policy and education, they rate the Greens below the CDU and even the SPD.

然而在更重要的问题——例如工作、经济政策和教育上，他们认为绿党的能力不如基民盟，甚至是社民党。

It could now eke out a tiny majority if it combined with the other two left-leaning parties: the SPD and the Greens.

社民党和绿党联合的话，就能以微小的优势成为多数党。

The relative decline of the traditional main parties, the CDU and SPD, in favour of smaller and younger ones, explains much of this party manoeuvring.

传统的重要党派（如CDU和SPD）的相衰落，规模较小和年轻的党派逐渐获得支持，大程度上解释个政党运作。

“It won’t be a boring campaign, ” Mr Steinbruck promised wryly on October 1st, after the leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) nominated him.

10月1日在被社民党（SPD）领导人提名为候选人后，施泰因布吕克带点自嘲地地保证“不会让选战太无聊”。

But the SPD extracted some big concessions as a price for entering the coalition, in hopes of showing the voters that they had made their mark.

但是SPD为加入大联盟采取大的让步，并希望向选民展示他们正努力实现规定的目标。