白宫

He also failed to do his homework on the Wall Street meltdown—barrelling into Washington for a White House economic summit and then discovering that he had nothing to say.

麦凯恩在华尔街金融危机方面也未能做足功课——他冒失赶往白宫参加金融峰会却发现自己所言无多。

The White House may be bedecked with baubles and awash with Christmas cheer, but its most famous resident appears a tad disgruntled with Santa.

现在的白宫可能已经挂满了各种圣诞装饰，洋溢着浓浓的圣诞气氛，但这里最著名的居民对圣诞老人却似乎颇有微词。

The White House, with a hyperactivity reminiscent of its push for health-care reform, has been encouraging speedy compromise and action."Unless your business model depends on bilking people, there is little to fear from these new rules," Barack Obama told bankers in a speech delivered in New York on April 22nd.

白宫希望两党能就金融改革尽快做出妥协并立即实施新法案，一如医疗改革的雷厉风行。4月22日奥巴马在纽约发表演讲时告诉银行家们，&除非你是以蒙骗大众为生，否则对于新法案你无须畏惧。&

Kitt was blackballed in America for speaking out against the Vietnam War in the 1960s -- most notoriously at a White House luncheon in the company of first lady Bird Johnson.

Kitt因为在1960年代痛斥越南战争在美国被投票反对--最众所周知地在一顿白宫午宴上在第一夫人Bird·约翰逊的陪同下。

U.S President Obama brandishes a lightsaber after a fencing demonstration on the White House lawn today during a photo op to promote Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympic Games.

9月16日，在白宫的南草坪上，美国总统奥巴马为芝加哥申请2016奥运会造势，手拿一根电影&星球大战&中的电棒瞎摆。

It was also slightly marred by a bumbled oath-taking, which Mr Obama corrected—though he did not need to—in the White House the next day.

这期间还发生了一件小插曲，奥巴马在宣誓时出现口误，不过第二天他就在白宫重新宣誓纠正过来了——即使他无需这样做。

Women have made up the majority of college journalism majors since 1977 and two of the three network TV anchor chairs are now occupied by women, but female bylines at the 11 top political and intellectual magazines are still outnumbered by a rate of 7 to 1, according to the White House Project.

自1977年以来，在大学中主修新闻专业的女性就占了绝大部分，并且如今，有三分之二的网络电视主播都是女性，而在11份顶尖的政治性和知识性的杂志中，署女性姓名的比例仍然超过了7比1，&白宫计划&如是说。

Women have made up the majority of college journalism majors since 1977 and two of the three network TV anchor chairs are now occupied by women, but female bylines at the 11 top political and intellectual magazines are still outnumbered by a rate of 7 to 1, according to the White House Project.

自1977年以来，在大学中主修新闻专业的女性就占了绝大部分，并且如今，有三分之二的网络电视主播都是女性，而在11份顶尖的政治性和知识性的杂志中，署男性姓名的文章仍然以7比1的比例超过了女性，&白宫计划&如是说。

After "Friends," you can still expect to see Matthew making occasional cameos on "The West Wing."

在老友记之后，你仍然可以期待马修在白宫风云中的客串。

Shell-shocked lawmakers cavilled, but Congress and the administration eventually agreed.

惊恐不定的国会议员虽有异议，但国会和白宫最终还是通过了计划。

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。