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Hillary Rodham Clinton
希拉里·克林頓
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, born on October 26, 1947 in Illinois, is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was born to Hugh E. Rodham, who managed a successful small business in drapery making, and Dorothy Howell Rodham, a full-time homemaker. Both of them were Republicans.
希拉里·戴安·羅德姆·克林頓，1947年10月26日生于伊利諾斯州，現任美國國務卿。父親休E羅德姆經營布料生意，小有成就；母親多蘿西豪威爾羅德姆則是全職太太。父母都是共和黨人。
When she was 14 years old, inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, Hillary wrote to NASA, asking how she could become an astronaut. She got a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program. Later, she recalled, "It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl".
希拉里14歲的時候，因受美國第一位太空人艾倫·謝潑德的激勵，曾給美國航空航天局寫信詢問自己怎樣才能成為一名宇航員，卻得到這樣一個簡單的回答：美國航 空航天計劃概不招募女性。后來，希拉里回憶說，"那是我第一次意識到，因為我是一個女孩，有些機會可能就會與我無緣。"
In 1965, Rodham enrolled at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she majored in political science. During her freshman year, she became head of the local chapter of the Young Republicans. There she slowly turned leftward in politics, and became a supporter of the anti-war presidential nomination campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy. She graduated in 1969 and wrote her senior thesis on poverty and community development. As the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College, she received a standing ovation, appeared in Life magazine and attracted national attention after shocking the audience by criticizing the first speaker, Senator Edward W. Brooke.
1965年，希拉里進人馬薩諸塞州的韋爾茲利（女子）學院讀書，主攻政治學。大學一年級，她便成為青年共和黨人在該校分部的領袖。在那里，她在政治上逐漸變得左傾，轉而擁護反戰的民主黨候選人尤金麥卡錫。她于1969年畢業，畢業論文以貧困與社區發展為主題。作為第一個在畢業典禮上發表講話的學生代表，她對第一個發言的參議員愛德華W布魯克表示指責，讓觀眾們目瞪口呆，隨后大家起立給予她長時間熱烈的掌聲。因此，她也登上了《生活》雜志，受到全國人民的關注。
In the summer of 1970, after hearing Marian Wright Edelman speak, she was inspired to volunteer to work for Edelman's Washington Research Project, which later became the Children Defense Fund. This was the beginning of her lifelong friendship and commitment to children's issues.
1970年的夏天，為瑪莉·安賴特·埃德爾曼的演講所鼓舞，她成為了埃德爾曼華盛頓研究項目的志愿者，這個項目后來發展成為兒童保護基金。從此，希拉里與兒童事業結下了不解之緣。
While at Yale, Hillary met and fell in love with her lifelong political spouse Bill Clinton. She received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973, having stayed on an extra year to be with Clinton. She began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center. Clinton first proposed marriage to her but she declined.
在耶魯大學讀書時，希拉里結識了她終生的政治伴侶比爾克林頓，并與之相愛。 為了與克林頓在一起，她多待了一年，于1973年獲得法學博士學位。她在耶魯兒童研究中心做了一年的兒童及醫療問題研究。克林頓曾向她求婚，但是她拒絕了。
