奥巴马登顶2012最具权势人物榜

时间：2012-12-14 08:06:16

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The US president leads it, of course, and then there's the Pope, and Angela Merkel, and Facebook's founder1, and other global rainmakers on Forbes' ranking of the world's most powerful people.

在福布斯杂志评出的全球最具权势人物榜上，奥巴马毫无疑问地居于首位，入榜的还有教皇、德国总理安格拉•默克尔、社交网站Facebook的创立者扎克伯格和其他具有全球影响力的风云人物。
 
The ranking features 71 names, a figure Forbes said it set as a cutoff because there are an estimated 7.1 billion people in the world and thus the ranking works out to one very heavy hitter for every 100 million people.
 
For the second year in a row, US President Barack Obama led the ranking, with Forbes noting that he won the popular vote, an electoral college majority, and seven of the seven toss-up states in the November election.
 
Mr Obama faces challenges galore（丰富地）, such as a budget crisis, stubbornly（顽固地） high unemployment, and renewed strife2（冲突） in the Middle East.
 
"But Obama remains3 the commander in chief of the world's greatest military and head of the sole economic and cultural superpower - literally4 the leader of the free world," Forbes said.
 
The silver medal of power went to Mrs Merkel, the German chancellor5, whom Forbes described as the backbone6 of the 27-member European Union and the person who carries the fate of the euro on her shoulders.
 
Third place went to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was re-elected to a third term "after a few years swapping7 posts with Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev," and "officially regains8 the power that no one believes he truly gave up."
 
Forbes said it assembled the list using four criteria9: power over lots of people, financial resources controlled, whether the person has power in various spheres of life, and whether that person actively10 uses their power.
 
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg - 16 on the list - fit the bill nicely because he is a politician overseeing a huge and hugely important city, and is a billionaire, a media magnate and a major philanthropist.
 
Microsoft founder Bill Gates was fourth, while Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, ranked fifth.
 
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was 25th. He dropped from 9th in last year's ranking because Facebook's debut11 this year as a listed company was a dud, Forbes said.

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1 Founder wigxF     
n.创始者，缔造者
参考例句：
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
2 strife NrdyZ     
n.争吵，冲突，倾轧，竞争
参考例句：
  • We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.我们不想卷入内乱之中。
  • Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages.金钱是造成很多婚姻不和的一个主要原因。
3 remains 1kMzTy     
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
参考例句：
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
4 literally 28Wzv     
adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实
参考例句：
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。
5 chancellor aUAyA     
n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长
参考例句：
  • They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
  • He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
6 backbone ty0z9B     
n.脊骨，脊柱，骨干；刚毅，骨气
参考例句：
  • The Chinese people have backbone.中国人民有骨气。
  • The backbone is an articulate structure.脊椎骨是一种关节相连的结构。
7 swapping 8a991dafbba2463e25ba0bc65307eb5e     
交换，交换技术
参考例句：
  • The slow swapping and buying of horses went on. 马匹的买卖和交换就是这样慢慢地进行着。
  • He was quite keen on swapping books with friends. 他非常热衷于和朋友们交换书籍。
8 regains 2b9d32bd499682b7d47a7662f2ec18e8     
复得( regain的第三人称单数 )； 赢回； 重回； 复至某地
参考例句：
  • It will take a lot of repair work before the theatre regains its former splendour. 要想剧院重拾昔日的辉煌，必须进行大规模整修。
  • He lays down the book and regains the consciousness. 他惊悸初定，掩卷细思。
9 criteria vafyC     
n.标准
参考例句：
  • The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
  • There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。
10 actively lzezni     
adv.积极地，勤奋地
参考例句：
  • During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
  • We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
11 debut IxGxy     
n.首次演出，初次露面
参考例句：
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

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