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Michelle Bachelet was born in 1951. She is the first woman to become President of Chile. She won the 2006 election in a runoff, campaigning to help reduce the country’s huge gap between rich and poor. In 2008, ‘Time’ magazine ranked her fifteenth on its list of the world's 100 most influential people. She is a qualified surgeon and speaks five languages fluently.
米歇爾·巴切萊特出生于1951年。她是智利首位女總統。2006年獲得總統選舉，她的競選目標為縮小國家貧富差距。2008年，《時代周刊》將她列入全球一百位最具影響力人物榜單，她排名第十五位。巴切萊特還是一名外科醫生，且精通五國外語。
Bachelet was born in Santiago, Chile. Her mother was an archaeologist and her father was an air force officer. She spent most of her childhood traveling around Chile, living on different military bases. She attended a prestigious girls-only public school and excelled in her studies. She started studying medicine in 1970. She said: "It was a concrete way of helping people cope with pain."
巴切萊特出生于智利圣地亞哥。母親為考古學家，父親是一名空軍。童年時期，她經常周游智利，曾在許多軍事基地生活。她進入了著名的女子私立學校，成績優異。1970年，巴切萊特開始學醫。她認為：“學醫能夠真正幫助人們免受痛苦。”
Augusto Pinochet came to power in a 1973 coup and her life changed forever. Her father died in 1974 after months of daily torture. Bachelet and her mother were also tortured. In 1975, they were exiled to Australia. A year later she went to the German Democratic Republic, where she completed her medical studies and learnt German.
1973年，智利發生軍事政變，奧古斯托·皮諾切特走馬上任，此次事件也改變了巴切萊特的一生。1974年，父親在數月痛苦折磨后逝世。巴切萊特和母親也同樣遭受欺辱。1975年，兩人逃亡澳大利亞。一年后，她進入德意志民主共和國，完成學業，并開始學習德語。
In 1979, Bachelet returned to Chile and helped children whose parents were being tortured by Pinochet's government. She became a consultant for the World Health Organization. She also earned a Master’s in military science. In 2002 Bachelet became Latin America’s first female Defence Minister. Four years later, she became president. A record number of foreign heads of states attended her swearing in ceremony.
1979年，巴切萊特回到智利，許多夫妻遭皮諾切特政府欺辱，巴切萊特便加入了兒童救助工作。她還是世衛組織顧問。且獲得了軍事科學專業碩士學位。2002年，皮諾切特成為拉丁美洲首位女性國防部長。四年后成為總統。多國首腦參加就職典禮，參與人數創紀錄。
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