They want to wake up, but they can't seem to ... Like a collapsing stock market, estimates of the number of overseas Chinese expected to come back to vote in the presidential election started high and then dropped rapidly. Initial guesses ran as high as 100,000; now it is anticipated only a few thousand will do so.
像是從一萬兩千點跌到兩千多點的股市大地震，海外華僑選總統即將返台的人數，也開高走低，從最早粗估的十萬人，跌到可能只有幾千人。