白宫

The White House's website has come a long way in eight years, as have the web operations of the congressional and Senatorial Committees.

白宫的网站在这八年来已经有很大的进步，国会与参议院委员会的网站运作也是如此。

Almost 30% of Americans tell pollsters that America is not ready to put a septuagenarian into the White House.

几乎有三成美国民众告诉民调机构美国还没有准备好让一位70好几的老人入主白宫。

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomed the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers to the White House on Monday, praising the team for their accomplishments on the basketball court and their service in the community.

-本周一，美国总统奥巴马在白宫接见了NBA总冠军洛杉矶湖人队，并高度赞扬了湖人队在球场上取得的成就以及队员们在慈善事业上做出的贡献。

President Barack Obama began pressing the settlement issue at a White House summit last week with Israel's hawkish new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

上周，总统奥巴马在白宫峰会上就定居问题对以色列鹰派新总理内塔尼亚胡加压。

But those plans were quickly shelved once he reached the White House.

但这些计划很快就搁置，一旦他达成了白宫。

The secretary of defence used the National Security Agency and the army's signal corps, which was in charge of secure White House telephone calls, to keep tabs on both Mr Kissinger and Nixon.

国防部长动用了国家安全机构和负责维护白宫电话的军事情报团，分别对基辛格和尼克松进行监听。

And almost everybody else with an interest in the plane -- Secret Service, National Security Agency, Signal Corps, White House advance teams, First Lady's office -- did some fiddling with the layout.

几乎所有对这架飞机有兴趣的其他人——特工处、国家安全局、陆军通信兵、白宫先遣组，第一夫人办公室——都曾插手该机的设计布局。

Bush's State of the Union address tonight will be simulcast in English, the White House confirmed.

白宫已经证实，乔治· W ·布什的《国情咨文》讲话今晚将用英语同步直播，这是自其当选美国总统以来的第一次。

Obama and Singh met for more than an hour Tuesday morning at the White House.

奥巴马和辛格周二上午在白宫进行了一个多小时的会谈。

The meeting started in the White House Situation Room, in the basement of the West Wing.

会议在白宫西侧地下室的情况室召开。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。