As expected, Senator Barack Obama has won the Wyoming caucuses, gaining seven more delegates to move him closer to clinching the Democratic Party nomination. But, Senator Hillary Clinton is also fighting hard, following her recent wins in Texas and Ohio.

正如人們的預料，角逐美國民主黨總統候選人提名的奧巴馬參議員在懷俄明州的黨內預選中獲勝，又增加了七名支持他在黨內獲得提名的黨代表。這距離奧巴馬獲得黨內提名又走近了一步。但是，希拉里.克林頓參議員最近在德克薩斯州和俄亥俄州獲勝以后也在努力奮斗。

The western state of Wyoming has large areas of sparsely populated range land and wilderness and only a few relatively small cities, by national standards, so it offers only 12 delegates. But Senator Obama welcomes any delegates as he moves to widen his nearly 100 delegate lead over Hillary Clinton.

美國西部的懷俄明州有大片的荒野和人煙稀少的農場地區。以美國的全國標準，這個州只有很少幾個不大的城市。這個州只有12個民主黨代表名額。但是奧巴馬歡迎他贏得的任何黨代表，這將擴大他領先克林頓將近100個黨代表的優勢。

Both candidates campaigned in the state Friday, but analysts had long assumed Obama would have the advantage partly because he has tended to do well in states that hold caucuses, rather than primaries. As the final results were being tallied it appeared he had won almost two thirds of the total votes cast. Obama is likely to take seven delegates from Wyoming. Clinton should take five.

星期五，這兩位角逐者都在懷俄明競選，但是分析人員早就估計奧巴馬會擁有優勢，部分原因是奧巴馬傾向于在那些用黨內預選的方式，而不是以選民初選的方式來推選黨代表的州取得良好的表現。在懷俄明最后清點投票結果的時候，看來奧巴馬贏得了將近三分之二的選票。他很可能贏得7個懷俄明的黨代表，而克林頓應該贏得5個黨代表。

For the past week Clinton has been focusing much of her campaign rhetoric on what she describes as Obama's lack of experience, questioning his readiness to be commander in chief.

過去一個星期，克林頓的競選言論一直集中在她所謂的奧巴馬缺乏經驗方面。她質疑奧巴馬是否作好了擔任三軍總司令的準備。

"Often when lives are on the line and a decision must be made, experience counts for everything,' she said. "In this election we need a nominee who can pass the commander-in-chief test, someone ready on day one to defend our country and keep our families safe."

克林頓說，“我們經常遇到的情況是，生死攸關，必須作出決定，這種情況下經驗決定一切。這場選舉，我們需要這樣一個提名人。這個人能夠通過三軍總司令的考驗，這個人從上任第一天起就能夠保衛我們的國家，保護我們的家庭的安全。”

Clinton cites her experience both as a senator from New York and her eight years working with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, in the White House as well as her claim to have visited some 80 nations. But Obama says her vote in the Senate to authorize the war in Iraq shows her lack of good judgment and he also questions the basis of her claim to experience.

克林頓談到她作為紐約州參議員的經歷和作為前總統克林頓的夫人在白宮度過的八年時光。她也談到她曾訪問過大約80個國家。但是奧巴馬說，克林頓夫人在參議院投票批準發動伊拉克戰爭，表明她不能作出良好的判斷。奧巴馬還質疑克林頓參議員自稱的經驗的基礎。

"One of the things I hope people start asking is what exactly is this foreign experience that she is claiming. I know she talks about visiting 80 countries. It is not clear, was she negotiating a treaty or agreements or was she handling crises during this period of time? My sense is the answer is no," he said.

奧巴馬說，“我希望大家開始提到的一個問題是，克林頓自稱她擁有的外交事務經驗究竟是什么？我知道，她說她訪問了80個國家。我們不明白的是，她在這個時期是談判過協議，還是處理過危機？依我看，答案是否定的。”

Obama supporters hailed the Wyoming victory as one more step to ultimate victory for their candidate, but Clinton supporters say the nearly even split of delegates keeps their candidate's campaign alive. Under the Democratic Party's rules delegates are split proportionally based on the vote in each contest.

奧巴馬的支持者說，他在懷俄明州的勝利是朝最終勝利走近了一步。但是克林頓的支持者則表示，兩位角逐者幾乎平分了懷俄明州的黨代表，這將保持克林頓的競選繼續下去。

The next contest for the two Democratic candidates will be in the southern state of Mississippi, which holds its primary on Tuesday. Thirty-three delegates are at stake in that contest.

按照民主黨的規定，在每個州的初選中，黨代表的名額按照競選人得到的選票的比例分配給競選人。下一個舉行民主黨初選的是南方的密西西比州。初選時間是星期二。這個州將決出33個黨代表的名額。