Outsiders can sometimes break in, as Barack Obama spectacularly showed.
有时候还会半路杀出程咬金,就像奥巴马的惊人当选。
As Barack Obama appears to pull ahead, what options remain for John McCain?
奥巴马遥遥领先,麦凯恩无力回天?
It is simple common sense - the quality that should be foremost as Barack Obama addresses these issues.
质量才是巴拉克·奥巴马解决这些问题时应该首先考虑的问题——这是情理之中的事。
They collected samples at 8 p.m., as the polls closed, and again at 11:30, as Barack Obama was announced the winner.
他们在晚上八点收集样本,到投票结束后大概11:30再收集一次,结果奥巴马宣告当选。
The award comes as Barack Obama considers sending up to 40, 000 more troops to Afghanistan, where the US is mired in an eight-year conflict.
在奖项颁布之际,奥巴马正在考虑向阿富汗增派4万名士兵,而此前美国已经深陷阿富汗冲突八年之久。
THIS is the just war, the "war of necessity", as Barack Obama likes to put it, in contrast to the bad war, the war of misguided choices in Iraq.
这是一场正义之战,“必要之战”,巴拉克·奥巴马先生喜欢这么描述阿富汗战争,相比之下,他称伊拉克战争糟糕透顶,是误入歧途的选择。
THERE was a chance that this week would mark a turning-point in an ever-deepening global slump, as Barack Obama produced the two main parts of his rescue plan.
在全球萧条持续深化之际,本周在贝拉克·奥巴马制定了救市计划的两个主要部分时,就出现了有可能标志转折的机会。
On JULY 7th, as Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev discussed world security in the Kremlin, people charged with security in Chechnya kidnapped a local man and his son.
7月7日,当巴拉克·奥巴马和德米特里·梅德韦杰夫在克里姆林宫讨论世界安全问题之际,车臣的地方安全人员绑架了当地的一名男人及其儿子。
As Barack Obama prepares to take office, some are predicting that America has reached the limits of its superpower status and is now facing a decline in our ability to shape world events.
如今,奥巴马就要执掌美国,一些分析家预测美国霸主地位难保,因为目前美国对国际事务的掌控力日益衰弱。
FOR 40-odd years now, as Barack Obama lamented on March 30th, American politicians have banged on endlessly about the evils of America's dependence on imported oil, without doing very much about it.
正如巴拉克·奥巴马在3月30日所感叹的那样,迄今40多年以来,美国政界就美利坚合众国对进口石油高依赖的危害性说了很多,但是做得却很少。
BY the scratchy standards of American politics, Democrats and Republicans left their differences at the water's edge as Barack Obama picked his careful way through his Egypt conundrum this week.
美国政界的标准可谓内外有别,参差不齐。就在本周,奥巴马应付埃及危局的谨慎做法赢得民共两党一致认同。
Yet neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney promotes himself as tool savvy presidential timber, in the mold of a Jimmy Carter, a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker.
然而,无论是巴拉克•奥巴马还是米特•罗姆尼,都没有像吉米•卡特,这位技艺精湛的木匠和橱柜制造商那样,把自己标榜为一位精通工具的总统。
Barack Obama said America's "voracious" economy should no longer be relied upon as the sole engine of global growth.
巴拉克·奥巴马称美国“贪婪的”经济再也不应该作为全球增长所依赖的唯一发动机。
FOR all his talk of change, Barack Obama will start his presidency much as George Bush did: with a huge fiscal stimulus aimed at boosting an ailing economy and promoting some pet objectives.
在贝拉克·奥巴马所谈及的所有变革之中,他上任之初所为大多会像乔治·布什一样:意在振兴病态经济和推动某些特别目标的大规模财政刺激计划。
That is the last thing America wants as President Barack Obama gets ready to unfurl a regional strategy for Afghanistan.
这是美国最不愿看到的,因为奥巴马正准备展示对阿富汗的地区性策略。
"Barack Obama may choose Hillary Clinton as Souter's replacement." So the big question now is, well, can she make the transition from pantsuits to robes.
“巴拉克·奥巴马可能会选择希拉里·克林顿作为苏特的继任者。于是现在最大的问题就是,呃,她能适应从套装到长袍的转变吗?”
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have had a contentious relationship as political rivals.
作为前政敌,奥巴马和希拉里以前的关系是对立的。
Barack Obama mentioned them favourably in a recent interview, citing them as part of a growing range of efforts to treat drugs "as a public health problem".
奥巴马在最近的一次采访中赞同的将他们称作为“作为一个公共健康问题”来对待毒品一系列努力中的一部分。
TWO years ago Barack Obama picked Jon Huntsman, the governor of Utah, to serve as America's ambassador to China.
两年前巴拉克·奥巴马选取了犹他州州长约翰洪博培作为美国驻华大使。
Voters in Wisconsin handed Barack Obama another big win, accelerating his momentum as he heads into the delegate-rich primaries here in Texas and Ohio on March 4.
威斯康辛州的选民给予奥巴马又一次大胜,为他向代表人数众多的德克萨斯州和俄亥俄州初选进军加添了动力。
Barack Obama is touting a new $50 billion infrastructure proposal, but as the mid-terms loom, it is probably too late.
巴拉克•奥巴马正在吹捧另一个500亿美元的基建投资议案,但随着中期选情堪忧,这个议案可能提得太晚了。
On Facebook, where about 3.2 million (during the campaign) signed up as his supporters, a group called Students for Barack Obama was created in July 2007.
在Facebook上,有大约320万(在竞选期间)人注册成为他的支持者,2007年7月一个名为巴拉克•奥巴马学生粉丝小组成立;
The treasury secretary is increasingly seen as a lame duck, to be replaced in January when Barack Obama takes office.
保尔森的转变也引来了质疑,财长已经被越来越多的人视为一只跛脚鸭,一个明年一月随着奥巴马入主白宫就要被别人代替的无用的人。
A long brewing conspiracy theory has it that Barack Obama entered this world as a subject of the British crown in East Africa because his father was Kenyan.
一项酝酿已久的阴谋论称,奥巴马之父是肯尼亚人,所以奥巴马降生于世上时就是个东非英国直辖殖民地的国民。
The short answer in the case of Libya is that Barack Obama has not invented a new doctrine so much as repudiated an old one.
关于利比亚局势的简短回答是,奥巴马没有发明一个新的主义,甚至都没有否定旧的主义。
Another public rupture is the last thing they need as they try to coax Barack Obama into addressing their concerns more sympathetically than his often heedless predecessor.
他们所需要的最后一件事就是另一个公开的决裂当他们试图通过花言巧语哄骗奥巴马将他们的忧虑比他们的前任更具同情心。
Barack Obama proposed raising taxes on the rich, as part of his blueprint to Congress to cut the deficit.
作为其向国会描述的削减财政赤字蓝图的一部分,奥巴马提议提高对富人的税率。
It will not serve as a farewell to the American people and it certainly will not attack Barack Obama.
这不是向美国人民告别的时机,当然也不会是对奥巴马进行攻击的时候。
He said many analysts are jumping past this week and focusing on next month, especially with Barack Obama set to be sworn in as President on Jan. 20.
他说,很多分析师已经跳过了这周,直接将焦点放在了下个月,尤其是一月20日奥巴马宣誓就职。
He said many analysts are jumping past this week and focusing on next month, especially with Barack Obama set to be sworn in as President on Jan. 20.
他说,很多分析师已经跳过了这周,直接将焦点放在了下个月,尤其是一月20日奥巴马宣誓就职。
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