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的支持者，因此导致党派分裂。

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

他希望拉近与美国的距离，但也希望避免激怒最大的贸易伙伴中国。

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.

法国不准备打进攻性战争，轰炸德国只会招致报复性攻击， 坏英国的重新军备，任何形式的干预都会激怒苏联。

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国家宣称的领土内，中国广阔的南海九段线（1930年制定的模糊的边界）的南端。