《福布斯》最具权势女性榜

    First lady Michelle Obama beat out heads of state, chief executives and celebrities¹ to rank as the world's most powerful woman in Forbes（福布斯） magazine's annual listing on Wednesday.
    Kraft Foods Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld, who led a hostile $18 billion takeover of(收购) Britain's Cadbury, came in second, followed by talk show host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who is ending "The Oprah Winfrey Show" next year after 25 years to launch her cable network OWN.
    German Chancellor² Angela Merkel, elected for a second term last year, was the fourth most powerful woman, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rounded out the top five.
    Moira Forbes, vice³ president and publisher of ForbesWoman, said the women on the business magazine's list were "shaping many of the agenda-setting conversations（对话） of the day.""They have built companies and brands, sometimes by non-traditional means and they have broken through gender⁴ barriers in areas of commerce, politics, sports and media and cultural zeitgeist, and thereby⁵ affecting the lives of millions, sometimes billions of people," she said.
    This year Forbes changed the way it ranked women, basing the list less on wealth and power and more on creative influence and entrepreneurship.
    Last year's winner was Merkel, followed by Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Obama ranked No. 40.
    Forbes said Obama topped the list this year because "she has made the office of first lady her own" while remaining popular.
    PepsiCo Inc Chief Executive Indra Nooyi, who was last week named the most powerful woman in U.S. business for the fifth year in a row by Fortune, was in sixth place, while singer Lady Gaga came in at No. 7.
    Gail Kelly, chief executive of Australia's Westpac Banking⁶ Corp, was in eighth place, followed by singer Beyonce Knowles. Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres rounded out the top 10.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)
 

1 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

2 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

3 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

4 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

5 thereby   

adv.因此，从而

参考例句：

• I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市，因此对它不怎么熟悉。
• He became a British citizen,thereby gaining the right to vote.他成了英国公民，因而得到了投票权。

6 banking   

n.银行业，银行学，金融业

参考例句：

• John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
• He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。