英语名人堂：贝拉克·奥巴马

贝拉克·侯赛因·奥巴马（Barack Hussein Obama），1961年8月4日出生，美国民主党籍政治家，第44任美国总统，为美国历史上第一位非洲裔总统。1991年，奥巴马以优等生荣誉从哈佛法学院毕业，而后在著名的芝加哥大学法学院教授宪法长达12年（1992年-2004年）。2007年2月10日，宣布参加2008年美国总统选举。2008年11月4日正式当选为美国总统。

2009年10月9日，获得诺贝尔委员会颁发的诺贝尔和平奖[1]  。2012年11月6日，第57届美国总统大选中，奥巴马击败共和党候选人罗姆尼，成功连任。

贝拉克·侯赛因·奥巴马于2014年11月10日至12日来华出席亚太经合组织领导人非正式会议并对中国进行国事访问。[2]  2014年12月，奥巴马参加了由非盈利组织Code.org举办的编程大会。会上，奥巴马熟练地习得一小段JavaScript代码，并成功地画出了一个正方形。使得他成为了美国史上首位会编程的总统。

2015年3月11日，贝拉克·侯赛因·奥巴马在各国领导人工资中，排名第一位。[3]  2015年5月，奥巴马基金会确认“奥巴马总统图书馆（Obama Presidential Library）”将落户于他曾经长期执教的芝加哥大学[4-5]  。2015年10月，《彭博市场》公布了第五届全球金融50大最具影响力人物，美国总统奥巴马排名第六。[6]  2015年11月4日，奥巴马名列《福布斯》全球最有权力人物排行榜第三位。[7]  2015年12月22日，国际民调机构盖洛普调查称，奥巴马在最受欢迎的领导人排名中名列第一。[8] 

2016年5月7日，奥巴马出席霍华德大学毕业典礼，获得理学博士荣誉学位

 

Barack Obama is the 44 President of the United States of America. He is also the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He made history in 2008 when he won the U.S. presidential election. He is the first African American to be President. Obama's charisma¹, intelligence, and powerful speeches have made him extremely popular with many Americans. He has been very successful with his message for change.

 

Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a black Kenyan father and white American mother. His parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian man. Barack's family moved to Indonesia in 1967. He attended schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old, when he returned to Hawaii. Obama majored in political science and international relations at Columbia University in New York.

 

After four years in New York, Obama moved to Chicago. There, he worked as the director of a community project from 1985 to 1988. He entered Harvard Law School and became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama taught law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. He became an Illinois Senator² in 1996.

 

In 2004, Obama was elected as a U.S. Senator. He supported legislation³ on conservation, energy, immigration and honest leadership. Obama is currently⁴ battling with serious issues such as the economy. He beat Mitt⁵ Romney to win a second term in office, despite a poor economy and high unemployment. He thanked voters by promising⁶ to spend his second term honoring their support, saying: "There's a lot more work to do."

1 charisma   

n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质，魅力

参考例句：

• He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。
• I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力，能吸引这么多人。

2 senator   

n.参议员，评议员

参考例句：

• The senator urged against the adoption of the measure.那参议员极力反对采取这项措施。
• The senator's speech hit at government spending.参议员的讲话批评了政府的开支。

3 legislation   

n.立法，法律的制定；法规，法律

参考例句：

• They began to draft legislation.他们开始起草法规。
• The liberals band together against the new legislation.自由党员联合一致反对新的立法。

4 currently   

adv.通常地，普遍地，当前

参考例句：

• Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
• Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。

5 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

6 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。