She was an air hostess in the 1960s as mass aviation took off, an aerobics instructor withleg-warmers in the 1980s, and even a black presidential candidate four years before BarackObama.
在上世纪60年代,民用航空起飞时,她是一名空中小姐。80年代,她是一个穿着暖腿袜的健美操指导员。甚至四年前在奥巴马当选前,她就是一名黑人总统候选人了。
Time for a new Barbie, dressed as a distressed-debt investor?
时间赋予了全新的芭比,下次她也许打扮成一名受债务困扰的投资者?
词语解释
1.versatile a.多才多艺的;通用的
Versatile actors can play all kinds of roles.
多才多艺的演员能演各种类型的角色。
2.controversy n.争议;争论
The mayor will try to accord the controversyover the housing scheme.
市长试图调解住房规划方面的争议。
3.supremacy n.至高;主权;最高权力或地位
The indirect democracy, the representative government, is based on the principle ofpopular supremacy.
人民主权原则作为代议制民主建立的主要理论根据,成为现代国家政治统治合法性的前提和基础。
4.platinum n.白金;铂
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