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Back when my husband first started campaigning for President, folks had all sorts of questions of me:
當(dāng)我的丈夫開始競(jìng)選總統(tǒng)時(shí)，人們對(duì)我有各種各樣的質(zhì)疑：
What kind of First Lady would I be? What kinds of issues would I take on?
她會(huì)是什么樣的第一夫人？她會(huì)接受什么樣的挑戰(zhàn)？
Would I be more like Laura Bush, or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Reagan?
她會(huì)更像勞拉·布什、希拉里·克林頓，還是南希·里根？
And the truth is, those same questions would have been posed to any candidate's spouse.
事實(shí)是，任何候選人的配偶都會(huì)面臨這些問(wèn)題。
That's just the way the process works.
這就是整個(gè)程序運(yùn)作的方式。
But, as potentially the first African American First Lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations;
但是，作為美國(guó)歷史上首位非裔第一夫人，我同時(shí)是另一組問(wèn)題和猜測(cè)的焦點(diǎn)，
conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others.
這些對(duì)話有時(shí)植根于對(duì)他人的恐懼和誤解。
Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating?
她會(huì)不會(huì)太聒噪，太憤怒，或者太軟弱？
Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?
或者，她會(huì)不會(huì)太溫柔，太像一位母親，而不夠像一名職業(yè)女性？
Then there was the first time I was on a magazine cover -- it was a cartoon drawing of me with a huge afro and machine gun.
接著，我以卡通形象的方式第一次出現(xiàn)在雜志封面上，頂著爆炸頭，站在一挺巨大的機(jī)槍旁邊。
Now, yeah, it was satire, but if I'm really being honest, it knocked me back a bit.
現(xiàn)在看來(lái)，這的確很諷刺，但坦白來(lái)說(shuō)，它確實(shí)讓我很驚訝。
It made me wonder, just how are people seeing me.
這件事讓我深思公眾是如何看待我的。
Or you might remember the on-stage celebratory fist bump between me and my husband after a primary win that was referred to as a "terrorist fist jab."
或許你還記得，我和我丈夫在臺(tái)上擊拳慶祝初選的勝利，那一幕被稱為“恐怖分子的擊拳致意”。
And over the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me.
多年來(lái)，人們用很多有趣的詞來(lái)形容我。
One said I exhibited "a little bit of uppity-ism."
有人說(shuō)我表現(xiàn)得有點(diǎn)“不知天高地厚”。
Another noted that I was one of my husband's "cronies of color."
也有人說(shuō)我是我丈夫這樣的黑人的親信。
Cable news once charmingly referred to me as "Obama's Baby Mama."
有一次，有線新聞竟稱我為“奧巴馬的代孕媽媽”。
And of course, Barack has endured his fair share of insults and slights.
當(dāng)然，我丈夫巴拉克也在忍受別人對(duì)他的侮辱和蔑視。
Even today, there are still folks questioning his citizenship.
即使在今天，仍然有人質(zhì)疑他的公民資格。
