世界名人简介 第152期: 希拉里·罗德海姆·克林顿

 　　Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most famous women in the world.She is an American politician and serves as Senator for New York.She was a candidate in 2008 for the Democratic nomination¹ to run for the Presidency².Hillary is married to Bill Clinton and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001.She has encouraged women worldwide to achieve their goals.

　　希拉里·罗德海姆·克林顿是世界上最著名的女人之一。希拉里是一位美国政治家，纽约参议员。2008年被民主党提名为总统候选人竞选总统。她与比尔·克林顿结婚，1993年到2001年是美国第一夫人。希拉里鼓励全世界的女人追求自己的目标。

　　Hillary Rodham was born in Chicago in 1947. She was a highly popular and active girl at school.She loved sports and the Girl Scouts³.At high school, she was involved in the student council and the school newspaper.After graduating with a degree in political science, she went onto Yale Law School.There she met and began dating Bill Clinton.Hillary and Bill married in1975.She joined a top law firm and slowly established herself as one of America’s top lawyers.She focused on children’s law.When Bill became Arkansas governor, Hillary went to work on reforming the state’s education.She was Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the White House as First Lady in 2003.She spent eight extremely active years there, especially with health care and women’s issues.She became a USSenator in 2001. Clinton made history with her presidential campaign of 2008.Many believe she will one day become America’s first female president.

　　希拉里·罗德海姆1947年出生在芝加哥。她在学校很积极也很受欢迎。希拉里喜欢运动和女童军。高中时，加入了学生会和校报。希拉里毕业时获得了政治科学学位，然后去了耶鲁法学院。在那里她遇见了比尔·克林顿并陷入热恋。希拉里和比尔在1975年结婚。她进入了一个顶级的法律公司，逐步成为美国的一流律师。希拉里关注儿童法。当比尔成为阿肯色州州长时，希拉里继续致力于改革阿肯色州的教育。希拉里1983年获得阿肯色州的“年度女人”称号，1984年获得阿肯色州的“年度母亲”称号。希拉里·罗德海姆·克林顿2003年作为第一夫人入主白宫。希拉里作为第一夫人积极奋斗了八年，特别关注健康和女性问题。希拉里2001年成为美国参议员。她在2008年的总统竞选中创造了新篇章。许多人都相信希拉里迟早会成为美国第一位女总统。

　　1.the first lady 第一夫人

　　例句：“Everyone knows that this is the first lady’s priority.

　　每个人都知道，这是第一夫人优先关注的事情。

　　2.involve in 参与其中

　　例句：or people who are getting involved in, you know, wanting to be translators and...

　　还有想要，你知道，想当翻译的人，还有……

　　3.Student Council 学生会

　　例句：I was president of Student Council of our university.

　　我曾担任过学校的学生会主席。

　　4.health care 卫生保健

　　例句：There is great uncertainty⁴, mostly because there is such uncertainty in general about how to control the rate of growth in health care costs.

　　有很大的不确定性，主要是一般因为这种不确定性是有关如何控制卫生保健费用的增长速度。

1 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

2 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

3 scouts   

侦察员[机，舰]( scout的名词复数 )； 童子军； 搜索； 童子军成员

参考例句：

• to join the Scouts 参加童子军
• The scouts paired off and began to patrol the area. 巡逻人员两个一组，然后开始巡逻这个地区。

4 uncertainty   

n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物

参考例句：

• Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
• After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。