总统

Since then, the first three months of a presidency have been compared to Roosevelt's.

从那时候开始，新总统任期的前三个月就要与罗斯福总统任期的前三个月比较。

This cohabitation of weak president and strong prime minister would continue until 2012, when Putin can run for the presidency again.

这种弱势总统和强势总理共同执政的局面将持续到2012年，到那时，普京可以再次竞选总统。

After more than 60 years of being exposed to the elements, the presidents of Mount Rushmore are getting a facial.

在经过60多年的风吹日晒之后，美国"总统山"上的总统们要"洗洗脸"了。

When the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, suggested Rustam Minnikhanov—the prime minister of Tatarstan and chairman of its oil company Tatneft—as the next Tatar president, he was voicing Mr Shaimiev's wish as much as his own.

当俄罗斯总统梅德韦杰夫提名鞑靼斯坦总理兼塔特石油公司主席鲁斯塔姆？明尼哈诺夫为鞑靼斯坦共和国下任总统时，他却在大谈沙伊米耶夫的愿望就是他的想法。

The president and Mrs. Bush joined more than 100 people at a rehearsal dinner Friday evening in the Texas town of Salado, where they also celebrated the groom's 30th birthday.

布什总统和总统夫人参加了在德克萨斯州的 S 镇周五晚间举行的100多人的彩排晚宴，在那里他们还一同庆祝了新郎30岁的生日。

Contemporary US President George Bush , and current President George W. Bush , former Florida Governor Bush , telegraph inventor Samuel Morse and the American poet Oliver Wendell Homes Sr.

当代美国总统老布什，和现任总统小布什，前佛罗里达州州长小布什，电报的发明人Samuel Morse 和美国著名诗人Oliver Wendell Homes Sr。

To the anxiety of some in the Bush administration, Mr Chávez's friend, Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader who was a foe of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, leads the opinion polls for Nicaragua's presidential election next month.

令布什政府一些人感到忧心的是，查韦斯的好友、20世纪八十年代罗纳德·里根总统的反对者、"桑地诺解放阵线"领导人丹尼尔·奥尔特加在下个月举行的尼加拉瓜总统大选的民调中领先。

Whoever ends up being declared the winner in the presidential race will have won only slightly more than a third of the vote and, as Reforma columnist Sergio Sarmiento notes, the percentage of Mexicans who actually brought the new president to power will be even less - around 20 percent - when the abstention rate of 40 percent is taken into account.

最终无论是谁在这场总统大选中胜出，他赢得的只是略多出三分之一的选票。据《改革报》的专栏作家塞尔乔·萨门托分析，如果把40％的弃权比率计算入内，实际上支持新总统上任的墨西哥人的比率甚至更低--只有大约20％。

Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, wrote Viktor Yushchenko, his Ukrainian counterpart, an open letter with a familiar litany of complaints: Ukraine was supplying arms to Georgia, complicating the life of Russia's Black Sea fleet (which is based in Sebastopol, a Ukrainian port), signing treacherous pipeline deals with the European Union, kicking out Russian diplomats and falsifying joint Soviet history.

俄总统梅德韦杰夫向乌克兰总统尤先科致公开信，与往常一样发出一连串批评：乌克兰卖武器给格鲁吉亚，给俄黑海舰队制造麻烦（舰队母港在乌克兰塞瓦斯托波尔），背信弃义地与欧盟签署输油管线协议，驱逐俄外交官，并篡改两国共享的前苏联历史。

ANYONE who thought that his wife's run for the presidency would cause Bill Clinton to avoid the limelight has been proved utterly wrong. September began with the publication of the former president's book,"Giving", about "how each of us can change the world", and will end next week as he takes centre stage at a celebration of philanthropy self-effacingly called the Clinton Global Initiative.

事实证明，假如有人以为比尔·克林顿会因为夫人竞选总统就不会再抛头露面，那就大错特错了。9月初，这位前总统就"一己之力如何去改变世界"所著的《给予》一书正式出版；下周也就是9月底，随着谦称为"克林顿全球计划"（Clinton Global Initiative，CGI）的慈善机构的一项庆典活动开幕，他又将成为世人瞩目的焦点。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！