And he's worried that whichever gets the job will antagonise the other's supporters and split the party.

他担心，不管谁当上都会敌对另方支持者，因此导致党。

He hopes to draw closer to America, but also wants to avoid antagonising China, his country's largest trading partner.

他希望拉近与美距离，但也希望避免激怒最大贸易伙伴中。

You don't want to antagonise them further.

你不想进步激怒他们。

The French were not prepared to fight an offensive war, bombing Germany would merely invite retaliatory attacks which would undermine British rearmament, and intervention of any sort would antagonise the Soviet Union.

法不准备打进攻性战争，轰炸德只会招致报复性攻击， 从而破坏英新军备，任何形式干预都会激怒苏联。

But in late March it also antagonised Brunei and Malaysia, by sending a naval flotilla where those two nations have claims, at the southern tip of China's expansive “nine-dashed line”, a vague cartographic claim dating from the 1930s.

在三月末，又跟文莱和马来西亚卯上了，将支海军舰队弄到这两个家宣称领土内，中广阔南海九段线（1930年制定模糊边界）南端。