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Angela Merkel was born in Hamburg in 1954. She became Germany’s first female Chancellor and the first from communist East Germany in 2005. ‘Forbes’ magazine listed her as the most powerful woman in the world in 2006 and 2007. Western media often dub her the “Iron Lady” because of her no-nonsense approach to her work and reputation as a tough negotiator.
1954年，安格拉·默克爾出生于德國漢堡。她是德國首位女總理，也是在2005年兩德統一后首位出身前東德地區的聯邦總理。福布斯雜志將她選為2006年和2007年最有影響力的世界女性。默克爾工作認真勤奮，沉穩務實,而且她還是一位據理力爭的談判家，西方媒體經常稱她為“鐵娘子”。
Merkel grew up in the former German Democratic Republic. She was a member of the socialist youth movement and participated in many communist-led activities. She speaks Russian fluently. She studied physics at theUniversity of Leipzig in the 1970s and physical chemistry in Berlin in the 1980s. She earned a Ph.D. basedon her research on quantum chemistry.
默克爾出生在前德意志民主共和國時期。她還是社會主義青年運動的成員之一，并參加了許多共產主義活動。她能說一口流利的俄語。20世紀70年代，她在德國萊比錫大學攻讀物理學，80年代在柏林學習物理化學。她在量子化學方面的研究讓她獲得了博士學位。
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Merkel became involved in the growing democracy movement. She won a seat in the unified German parliament in 1990 and was appointed Minister for Women and Youth. In 1994,she was made Minister for the Environment. This was her springboard to rise to the top. She was elected Chancellor in November 2005.
自從1989年柏林墻倒塌以來，默克爾參加了不斷壯大的民主運動中來。1990年，她在德國聯邦議會中獲得席位，并任命為聯邦婦女和青年部部長。1994年，任聯邦環境部部長。這是她政治頂峰的跳板。2005年11月，她成為了德國總理。
In 2007, Merkel took on the six-month rotating position of President of the European Council and chair of the G8. That same year, she met the Dalai Lama in Berlin, thus angering the Chinese. In 2008, she spoke ofGermany’s “Holocaust Shame” in Israel’s Knesset. She also received the Charlemagne Prize "for her workto reform the European Union".
2007年，默克爾擔任了六個月歐洲理事會輪值主席，同時還是八國集團主席。同年，她在柏林會見了達賴喇嘛，這引起了中國的不滿。2008年，她在以色列的國會談到了德國對大屠殺感到的恥辱感。她還因為對歐盟進行改革而獲得查理曼和平獎。
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