叶利钦

Even before he left office, a majority of Russians, from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, despised him, partly on account of the raging inflation, unpaid salaries and oligarchic larceny of his rule, but even more for the shame many thought he brought on Russia through his clownish drunkenness.

在叶利钦执政期间就有大部分的俄罗斯人--从加里宁格勒到堪察加--反对他的政策，部分原因是当时大规模的通货膨胀，工资拖欠和金融寡头的垄断，但有更多人认为叶利钦小丑似的丑态给俄罗斯带来了更大的羞辱。

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, also Yeltsin's once main opponent, has sent condolences to Naina, according to Itar- Tass.

据塔斯社报道，前苏联总统戈尔巴乔夫，也是叶利钦的主要政治对手，向叶利钦的遗孀致电表示哀悼。

This reverses the biggest achievement of Boris Yeltsin's short-lived, imperfect democracy: a peaceful transfer of power. The manner in which Mr Yeltsin handed power to Mr Putin in December 1999 was not ideal, but he did step down and let somebody else take charge.

鲍里斯？叶利钦短暂且不完善的民主所获得最大成就便是平和的权力过渡，而普京时代的做法却与之相悖而行。1999年12月，叶利钦将国家权力移交给普京，其行为虽不够高尚，但叶利钦终究还是走下台并让另一个人接任。

For political groups I talk on how to save Yeltsin and Who is Yeltsin?

对政治家，我就说要挽救叶利钦。叶利钦是谁？

Bush then called Yeltsin to assure him of his support.

随后，布什致电叶利钦明确了他对叶利钦的支持。

And although Mr Yeltsin boasted democratic credentials that Mr Putin cannot—notably his tolerance of critical media and his devolution of power to Russia's regions—he too could be irascibly nationalistic, meddling in Russia's ex-Soviet neighbours and taking liberties with elections.

叶利钦为普京上台创造了有利条件：是叶利钦找到这个前克格勃特工作为自己接班人的，先是让他在1999年8月当上总理，然后又提前辞去总统职位以帮助普京当上总统。

Another group of people,with mostly the opposing view, held the rally near the spot where then President Boris Yeltsin got up on a tank and denounce the coup attempt ,rasing the maral e of tens of thouand's anti-communist prostesters outside the Russian White House.

另外一些持相反意见的人们在当年前总统叶利钦爬上坦克谴责政变的地方集合。叶当年的做法鼓舞了苏联总统府外成千上万的共产党反对者的士气。

Born in 1931, Mr Yeltsin was a loyal provincial Communist, bulldozing the Ipatiev house in Sverdlovsk where the last tsar's family was murdered.

叶利钦先生出生于1931年，曾是一名忠诚的共产党员，他的奋斗始于斯维尔德洛夫斯克（现在也叫叶卡特琳堡的伊帕切夫别墅，这也是最后一个沙皇家庭被杀害的地方。

This contrasted sharply with his hard-drinking and chronically ill predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, who died last year.

这与其前任鲍里斯-叶利钦形成鲜明对比。叶利钦饮酒过度，长期患病，已于去年去世。

Strobe's main point is that I became my own Russia hand because, while not an expert on Russia, I knew one big thing: on the twin issues that had constituted the casus belli of the cold war — democracy versus dictatorship at home and cooperation versus competition abroad — Yeltsin and I were, in principle, on the same side.

斯特罗布的主要观点是，我成了&美国的叶利钦&，因为尽管我不是俄罗斯问题专家，但我了解很重要的一点：导致冷战的两大孪生问题，即，国内的民主与专制之争和国外合作与竞争之别上，我和叶利钦在原则上站在同一战线。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。