1.On questions of policy, the views of the candidates were as reassuringly similar as their backgrounds were exhilaratingly different.
在政策问题上，尽管这些候选人的背景各不相同（令人振奋），但他们的观点却十分相似（让人放心）。
2.For all South Africa's faults, its press has at its best been riotously, exhilaratingly free.
尽管南非有这样那样的缺陷，但是该国的媒体却一直自由奔放。