访谈录 2012-01-02&01-04 奥巴马答小孩问

 Who answers people's letter all the time and what we thought that we might do we ask middle school and high school students to throw of you questions. I'd like to read their questions. 

If you are a superhero and you can have one super power what would it be. 

I have talked to Malia about this. We both agree that fire seems to be a pretty good thing to be able to do. Then, typically as a adult, I will come up with some little more obscure¹, like I'd love to speak every foreign language there is. she kind of looks at me and says what kind of superpower is that, but I have more modest goals when it comes to superpowers. 

Okay, your campaign slogan in 2008 was yes we can. What it's gonna to be the new slogan for the 2012 election². 

I think that is a great question. If those middle schoolers have any suggestions, let me know. We are still working on it. 

One of them asked the reporters ever ask too many questions? 

No, I love, Paul, love reporters, l love all those questions. 

Sure. Okay, in the holidays. Finally, if you are elected president again, what would do better?  

What I wanna be able to do is to communicate to the American people, my absolute³ confidence in our future. We still have the best situation than any country around the world. I was in Asia and you know, here in the United States, everybody is always talking about China and how they are arising, and when you are in Asia, people are still looking to the United States, they don't look at China, they look at the United States for leadership, for insecurity, on economics⁴, on culture, on politics, not because they think we are perfect, because they realize that we are unique superpower in the sense that we don't just think about ourselves interest, we also think about what's good for the world and I won't want us to trade places to anybody. I want to communicate that more effectively with American people. 

1 obscure   

adj.微暗的，难解的，不著名的，（语音学）轻音的；vt.使...阴暗，隐藏，使...含糊，成为含糊的元音；n.暗淡，模糊

参考例句：

• The point of his speech is obscure.他发言的要点模糊不清。
• The joke did not obscure the underlying seriousness of his point.玩笑并没有掩盖他的观点隐含的严肃性。

2 election   

n.选举，选择权；当选

参考例句：

• There is no doubt but that he will win the election.毫无疑问，他将在竞选中获胜。
• The government will probably fall at the coming election.在即将到来的大选中，该政府很可能要垮台。

3 absolute   

adj.十足的；绝对的；不受任何限制的

参考例句：

• The first year of the course was an absolute doddle.第一年的课程简单极了。
• I look upon this as an absolute necessity.我认为这是绝对必要。

4 economics   

n.经济学，经济情况

参考例句：

• He is studying economics,which subject is very important.他正在学习经济学，该学科是很重要的。
• One can't separate politics from economics.不能把政治与经济割裂开来。