奥巴马简介 中英文对比

Brief Introduction

Barack Hussein Obama, born on August 4, 1961, is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.

Obama is the first African-American to be nominated by a major American political party for president and became the first African-American president in American history on November 4, 2008. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he became the first black person to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, and was formally nominated at the 2008 Democratic National Convention with Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate.

奥巴马简介

巴拉克?侯赛因?奥巴马，出生于1961年8月4日，是代表美国伊利诺州的资深联邦参议员，2008年美国总统选举民主党候选人。

奥巴马是美国历史上第一位获得主要政党提名的非裔总统候选人，并于2008年11月4日当选为美国历史上首位非裔总统。他毕业于哥伦比亚大学和哈佛法学院，是《哈佛法律研究》的第一位黑人社长。在连续三届担任伊利诺伊州州参议员之前（1997-2004），奥巴马从事社区工作和民权律师工作。2007年2月，奥巴马宣布参加总统竞选，2008年民主党全国大会上获得正式提名，选择代表特拉华州的联邦参议员乔?拜登做副总统人选。

Early life and Education

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a Luo from Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas.

As an adult Obama admitted that during high school he used marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol, which he described at the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency as his greatest moral failure.

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee. He resigned from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 following his election to the US Senate.

2008 Election

On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. Throughout the campaign, Obama has emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing

energy independence, and providing universal health care. And he promised “change” in the campaign course.

Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he declared to a huge throng of cheering supporters.

巴拉克?奥巴马出生于夏威夷州檀香山，他的父亲老巴拉克是生于肯尼亚的卢欧族人，母亲安?杜汉姆（Ann Duham）出生于美国堪萨斯州的威奇托。

在中年时代，奥巴马吸食过大麻和可卡因，他在“2008年总统公民论坛”上表示，这是他一生中最大的道德失败。

1996年，奥巴马进入政坛，当选伊利诺伊州参议员。2003年1月，奥巴马被选为伊利诺伊斯州卫生公共服务委员会主席。2004年11月，他在国会选举中当选伊利诺伊州联邦参议员。

2008年参加美国大选

2007年2月10日，奥巴马在伊利诺斯州首府春田市的老州政府大厦前正式宣布参加2008年总统大选。伊拉克战争、增大能源自主和全民医疗保险是奥巴马竞选纲领所关注的三大主要问题。此外，“变化”是奥巴马的竞选主题。

巴拉克?奥巴马在美国当地时间周二的晚间以压倒性优势获胜，成为美国首位黑人总统。这一结果颠覆了美国有史以来存在的种族隔阂现状。他在获胜后对欢庆胜利的众多支持者们喊道：“变革的时代来了。”

Romantic story

Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. Assigned for three months as Obama's adviser at the firm, Robinson joined him at group social functions, but declined his initial offers to date. They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3, 1992. The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha ("Sasha"), in 2001.

A diversified family

In a 2006 interview, Obama highlighted the diversity of his extended family. "Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's

like a little mini-United Nations," he said. "I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher." Obama has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father's family, six of them living, and a half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of his mother and her Indonesian second husband. Obama's

mother was survived by her Kansas-born mother, Madelyn Dunham until her death on November 2, 2008, just before the presidential election.

Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team. Before announcing his presidential candidacy, he began a

well-publicized effort to quit smoking.

“罗曼史”

1989年6月，奥巴马在芝加哥盛德国际律师事务所做暑期助理期间，结识了米歇尔?鲁宾逊。当时米歇尔被指派为奥巴马3个月工作期间的顾问，她在社交集会时加入了奥巴马的团体，但却拒绝了他最初的约会邀请。那年夏季快结束时，他们才开始约会，随后两人于1991年订婚，并于1992年10月3日正式结婚。他们有两个女儿，大女儿玛丽亚-安出生于1999年，小女儿娜塔莎（萨沙）出生于2001年。

“小联合国”

在2006年的一次采访中，奥巴马让人们了解了他的多样性的大家庭。

他说：“米歇尔最有发言权了，每当过圣诞节或者感恩节，我们家就像一个小联合国一样。我的亲人有的长得像伯尼·麦克（黑人喜剧演员），有的则酷似撒切尔夫人”。奥巴马的父亲是肯尼亚人，在那里他有7个同父异母兄妹，其中6个还健在。他还有一个同母异父的妹妹---玛雅，是他的母亲和他的印尼继父所生。他的母亲先于外祖母去世。奥巴马的外祖母玛德琳?杜汉姆出生于堪萨斯，遗憾的是她在本月2日大选之前去世。

奥巴马喜欢打篮球，高中时曾是校队成员。宣布竞选总统之前，他向民众表示自己会戒烟。

Cultural and Political image

With his Kenyan father and white American mother, his upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, and his Ivy League education, Obama's early life experiences differ markedly from those of African American politicians who launched their careers in the 1960s through participation in the civil rights movement. Expressing puzzlement over questions about whether he is "black enough," Obama told an August 2007 meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists that the debate is not about his physical appearance or his record on issues of concern to black voters. Obama said that "we're still locked in this notion that if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong."

Echoing the inaugural address of John F. Kennedy, Obama acknowledged his youthful image in an October 2007 campaign speech, saying: "I wouldn't be here if, time and again, the torch had not been passed to a new generation."

Many commentators mentioned Obama's international appeal as a d

efining factor for his public image. Not only did several polls show strong support

for him in other countries, but Obama also established close relationships with prominent foreign politicians and elected officials even before his presidential candidacy, notably with then current British Prime minister Tony Blair, whom he met in London in 2005, with Italy's Democratic Party leader Walter Veltroni, who visited Obama's Senate office in 2005, and with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who also visited him in Washington in 2006.

文化及政治形象

奥巴马的父亲来自肯尼亚，母亲为美国白人，他在檀香山和雅加达两地长大，就读于常青藤名校。他的这些早期经历与在二十世纪六十年代通过民权运动开拓自己事业领域的那些非洲裔美国政界人士明显不同。在关于他是否“够黑”这个问题上，奥巴马在全美黑人新闻工作者协会2007年8月的会议上表示，这样的争论与他的外表或者他对黑人选民问题的关注并无关系。他说：“我们到现在还在被那个固有的观念所影响，觉得受到白人的认可是不可能的。”

对于自己的年轻形象，奥巴马在2007年10月的一次竞选演讲中引用肯尼迪总统就职演说中的话说：“如果不是这个火炬在被一次次地传递到新一代的手上，我不会有这个机会的。”

很多评论家都认为奥巴马在国际上的受欢迎度在他的公众形象中起了决定性作用。他不仅在其他国家的几次民调中都得到了极高的支持率，而且在他成为总统候选人之前就与一些外国政要及在职官员关系密切。这其中就有2005年与奥巴马在伦敦会面、时任英国首相的托尼?布莱尔，同年拜访过奥巴马参议员办公室的意大利民主党领袖瓦尔特?维尔特洛尼，以及现任法国总统尼古拉斯?萨科奇，二人曾于2006年在华盛顿会过面。