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Barack Obama is the 44th President of the USA. He was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a Kenyan father and American mother. His parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian man, thus Obama lived in Indonesia between the ages of six to ten, before returning to Hawaii in 1972. He worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans and went on to Harvard Law School.
巴拉克·奧巴馬是美國第44任總統。1961年，奧巴馬出生于夏威夷州，父親是一名肯尼亞人，母親是美國人。之后父母離婚，母親改嫁給了一名印度尼西亞人，在6-10歲時，奧巴馬生活在印度尼西亞，1972年回到了夏威夷。通過獎學金和學生貸款，他完成了大學學業，之后進入了哈佛大學法學院。
Barack’s story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others. At Harvard, he became the first African—American president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he taught law at the University of Chicago.
巴拉克的故事是典型的美國故事，美國價值觀、在中產階級中長大，教育以及自身的努力拼搏是其前進的途徑，并深信人們應該服務于他人。他也是哈佛法學評論中唯一一位非洲裔美國籍總統。畢業之后，他在芝加哥大學教授法律。
Obama served as State Senator for Illinois between 1997 and 2004. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004,winning by a landslide. This made him a rising star in the Democratic Party. He was a strong opponent ofthe Iraq War. His presidential campaign was the first to make full use of social media. His slogan “Yes,we can” helped him become America’s first African American president in 2009.
1997-2004年，他是伊利諾伊州的參議院議員。2004年，奧巴馬當選聯邦參議員，并以壓倒性的優勢獲勝。這使他成為了民主黨的希望之星。他強烈反對伊拉克戰爭。他的總統競選是首位全方面利用社會媒體的人。他的標語“我們能做到”幫助他獲得了2009年的總統大選，并成為了美國歷史上首位非洲裔美國總統。
Obama’s term in office coincided with the global financial collapse of 2008. He inherited one of America’s worst ever economies. In 2009 he received the Nobel Peace Prize. He introduced major reforms to America’s healthcare system and sought a fairer taxation system. He began the troop withdrawal from Afghanistanand Iraq. He also authorized the mission that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden. He was re-elected for asecond term in November, 2012.
奧巴馬的任期正好與2008年的全球金融蕭條不期而遇。他接手了美國有史以來經濟最糟糕的時期。2009年，他獲得了諾貝爾和平獎。他對美國的醫療體系進行了大規模的改革，并建立了更加公平的稅務體系。他還開始從阿富汗和伊拉克撤兵。并射殺了本拉登。2012年11月，他再次當選總統。
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