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奥巴马的家庭背景介绍(中英文对照) 时间:2009-12-10 18:00 作者:Slang Freak 点击: 411次 The Obamas are the first African American family to move into the White House. President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are well aware of the historic significance of his election and what it means to many Americans. In her campaign stump speech, Mrs. Obama often mentioned a 10-year-old girl she met in a South Carolina beauty shop who told her that if Barack Obama were elected president, “it means that I can imagine anything for myself.” “She could have been me,” Mrs. Obama told Newsweek magazine. “Because the truth is, I’m not supposed to be here, standing here. I’m a statistical oddity. Black girl, brought up on the South Side of Chicago. Was I supposed to go to Princeton? No. … They said maybe Harvard Law was too much for me to reach for. But I went, I did fine. And I’m certainly not supposed to be standing here.” The first lady was born Michelle Robinson and raised in a working-class family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson worked hard in school and landed a spot in the Princeton University class of 1985. After earning an undergraduate degree in sociology with a minor in African-American studies, she attended ? Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson met in 1989 when she, then an associate at the Chicago, ? The future president asked her to attend one of his community organizing sessions in Chicago. She accepted and attended a meeting, where she told Newsweek that he spoke to participants about closing the gap between “the world as it is, and the world as it should be.” Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama continued to date, and the couple married in 1992. The Obamas share a passion for public service and have devoted much of their adult lives to careers in the public sector. After leaving the corporate law practice where they met, Mrs. Obama held several positions in Chicago government, and she was founding executive director of Public Allies — Chicago, an organization that encourages young people to