福布斯全球女强人排行榜

Well, Forbes magazine reveals the 100 most powerful women in the world and some of the names might surprise you. Elizabeth McDonald is the senior editor of Forbes. Elizabeth, good morning.

Good morning.

This is so much fun. I can't (And it is fun,)wait to see people like Martha Stewart. (all right) Before we get to the list, however, how did you choose? You picked by the basis of the top 100?

Right. We looked at a candidate list of about 300 women and we cut it back to 100. We had a team of about 15 staffers, drilling into these women's resumes, drilling into their files. We wanted to see two things, their economic clout¹ and their cultural clout. You know, we just really wanted to drill (in) deep into their files to see what these women's accomplishments² have been.

First take a look at the top ten. (Sure)No.1, on the Forbes list of the most powerful women, is Condoleezza Rice. (That's right.) Is there any debate within your magazine about that?

No. Because, you know, she has not, she is not only the first African- American woman to be Secretary of State. She's also served two other presidents. She is reinvigorating the role of Secretary of State with the kind of diplomatic activism. You know, she's taking on Genocide in Sudan. You know, she is dealing³ with Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. So it was clear to us that she was No.1.

And Secretary of State of the most powerful nation in the world. (That's right.) Something that's also instructive. Also, the next three, 2, 3 and 4 are women, most people may not, Americans, anyway, may not have heard of: Wu Yi, the vice⁴ premier⁵ of China(Right.), also, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is the prime minister of Ukraine, and also Gloria Arroyo⁶, the president of the Philippines. What makes them so powerful, 2, 3, and 4?

What was interesting in particular about Yulia Tymoshenko is she is the woman who led the Orange Revolution to oust⁷ this former corrupt⁸ regime. She's also taking on the oligarchs. You know when we were doing this list, we were always mindful about Margret Thatcher's one sentence and she said," You know, I don't mind how long my ministers talk, so long as they do what I said." We are looking for women who have courage, who have conviction, who have a vision and who take charge.

Ok, now, next on the list, now 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are all American women who're head of large corporations. As we look at their faces, it's interesting to know, that all the way down to the bottom of 9, you have actually after Sallie, and also Brenda coming up next, you have Oprah Winfrey. (That's right.) Now why is she sunk down so low when so many people on the street thought that she should be higher?

We are elder than that we have set up; takes a look at various economic measures. We're trying to find the economic matrix that show (the) how('s) large / economic sphere that these women hold sway over. So these women who are the business women. They run multi-billion dollar corporations and they have tremendous economic impact down on Wallstreet, or in the corporate⁹ America.

So we may not know specifically how much impact. We don't even have to know their names, but they have (tremen) much more impact than we realized.

Right. That's not to say Oprah doesn't have economic impact. (She has a huge cultural impact, one of the criteria) Right. She has a huge cultural impact. Her show is aired in 112 countries, including the U.S.

Ok. Also, No.10 is Mellinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Mellinda Gates Foundation. I think it's Mellinda and Bill Gates Foundation. (That's right.) The bottom line on that one is that because of her charity work, because of so much money they give.

Right. That you know the endowment that they run Bill and Mellinda Gates Foundation is about 28.8 billion dollar foundation. It is huge in humanitarian¹⁰ world.

Ok. Also, let's go down the list further. You've got No.12, other notable woman, Julie Gerberding, who is the director of Centers for Disease control in U.S, That's a very important job. Also Hillary Clinton, No. 26, You put her ahead away down the list, No. 46, Laura Bush, the first lady of the United States. I'm surprised that she is down so low. Is it possible that she has much more influence than we realize.

Who? I beg your pardon. Laura Bush? (Laura.) Laura Bush does has tremendous influence in the U.S, but you know, Hillary Clinton is an elected official and you know, she's aspiring¹¹ to be the (present) next Democratic nominee¹² for the president. But that, but really it was her influence in New York State and the country as a whole as a member of the Senate body.

All right. Ok, now further down the list. 63 is Rose Marie Bravo, the chief Executive of Burberry, U.K. Now she is a fashion powerhouse.

That's right. You know, it's hard to… you know the Burberry brand is so ubiquitous. Some want to see that her famous plat put on an automobile¹³ or plane right now. But Rose Marie reinvigorated the Burberry brand. She's doubled the sales here. She came over from sacks and Burberry was really a struggling brand in the late 90s.

75, Queen Elizabeth II. (Right.) 90, Christie Hefner, the daughter of Heugh. And No.97, Lubna Olayan.(Right.) She is who? (She once...) The chief executive of Olayan..

Olayan Financing Company(Saudi Arabia.) and that's in Saudi Arabia. And basically she's helping¹⁴ to run a conglomerate¹⁵ of about 50 different entities¹⁶. And that's a huge huge company in the Middle East.

And No.47 Catie Couric.(That's right. Catie Couric) In part because of her charity work for colon¹⁷ cancer and in addition..

We were very impressed for her charity work and it's also because, you know, the Today's Show is top of the morning's show ratings, so that's why Catie Couric is on the list.

You know, when we did the list, we basically read through the surveys of the women who said,"why is it so? Why is it that women have struggled breaking through the glass ceiling." That's a phrase of Wallstreet journal calling it in 1985, and uniformly women executives said, "Well, because there aren't any role models to show us how they got there." Well, here they are on the Forbes list.

All right. Is there a sign that we are doing it better than we have been?

I think it's improving. Still, the salary is a problem, but it is improving.

Elizabeth McDonald. Pleasure. (Sure, thank you.)Thank you so much for talking about this. And again you can find the list in the current issue of Forbes magazine.

1 clout   

n.用手猛击；权力，影响力

参考例句：

• The queen may have privilege but she has no real political clout.女王有特权，但无真正的政治影响力。
• He gave the little boy a clout on the head.他在那小男孩的头部打了一下。

2 accomplishments   

n.造诣；完成( accomplishment的名词复数 )；技能；成绩；成就

参考例句：

• It was one of the President's greatest accomplishments. 那是总统最伟大的成就之一。
• Among her accomplishments were sewing,cooking,playing the piano and dancing. 她的才能包括缝纫、烹调、弹钢琴和跳舞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

4 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

5 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

6 arroyo   

n.干涸的河床，小河

参考例句：

• She continued along the path until she came to the arroyo.她沿着小路一直走到小河边。
• They had a picnic by the arroyo.他们在干枯的河床边野餐过。

7 oust   

vt.剥夺，取代，驱逐

参考例句：

• The committee wanted to oust him from the union.委员会想把他从工会中驱逐出去。
• The leaders have been ousted from power by nationalists.这些领导人被民族主义者赶下了台。

8 corrupt   

v.贿赂，收买；adj.腐败的，贪污的

参考例句：

• The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
• This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。

9 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

10 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

11 aspiring   

adj.有志气的；有抱负的；高耸的v.渴望；追求

参考例句：

• Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
• He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句

12 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

13 automobile   

n.汽车，机动车

参考例句：

• He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
• The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。

14 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

15 conglomerate   

n.综合商社，多元化集团公司

参考例句：

• The firm has been taken over by an American conglomerate.该公司已被美国一企业集团接管。
• An American conglomerate holds a major share in the company.一家美国的大联合企业持有该公司的大部分股份。

16 entities   

实体对像； 实体，独立存在体，实际存在物( entity的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Our newspaper and our printing business form separate corporate entities. 我们的报纸和印刷业形成相对独立的企业实体。
• The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities. 北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。

17 colon   

n.冒号，结肠，直肠

参考例句：

• Here,too,the colon must be followed by a dash.这里也是一样，应当在冒号后加破折号。
• The colon is the locus of a large concentration of bacteria.结肠是大浓度的细菌所在地。