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TIME Magazine Names Donald Trump¹ “Person of the Year” 时代杂志命名唐纳德·特朗普为“年度人物”

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Time magazine named Donald Trump its “Person of the Year” on Wednesday. The magazine called him “President of the Divided States of America” on its cover.

Trump is the president-elect. He will take office on January 20, 2017.

The magazine calls the U.S. “the Divided States” in part because Trump did not win the most votes in the election. He did, however, easily win enough electoral votes to defeat Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

In its story about selecting President-elect Trump, the magazine said that he won the presidency² by inspiring “new levels of anger and fear within his country.”

The magazine says the cover goes to the “person (or people) who wielded⁴ the most influence in the previous 12 months.”

It said Wednesday that American presidents become “Person of the Year” about half the time in election years.

The last time someone other than a U.S. president won the title in an election year was 1996. That year, AIDS researcher David Ho won.

Time magazine ran its first “Man of the Year” issue in 1928. That year, the honors went to airplane pilot Charles Lindbergh.

Wallis Simpson was the first woman Time magazine chose for the yearly award. She was named in 1937, when she married King Edward VIII and became the Duchess of Windsor.

That year, the cover said “Woman of the Year.” But the name of the award was officially “Man of the Year” until 1999.

Others who have made the cover include Joseph Stalin, Deng Xiaoping, and Winston Churchill. German Chancellor⁵ Angela Merkel was on the cover last year.

But, Time magazine does not always name just one person, or even a person at all. In 1988 it named the Endangered Earth. And in 1975, it named “American women.”

The choice of Trump had both his supporters and detractors talking on social media. “Person of the Year” was one of the top trending topics on Wednesday.

One person wrote: “Whatever you think of him, it’s a fitting choice.”

Other commenters suggested Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Julian Assange of Wikileaks, or Harambe, the gorilla⁶ who was killed at a zoo in Ohio after a child fell into his enclosure.

Time said it also considered Hillary Clinton, computer hackers⁷, and singer Beyonce, among others, for the title of 2016 Person of the Year.

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inspire – v. to make (someone) want to do something : to give (someone) an idea about what to do or create

entrepreneur – n. a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money

wield³ – v. to have and use (power, influence, etc.)

fitting – adj. of a kind that is appropriate for the situation or purpose

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

3 wield   

vt.行使，运用，支配；挥，使用(武器等)

参考例句：

• They wield enormous political power.他们行使巨大的政治权力。
• People may wield the power in a democracy.在民主国家里，人民可以行使权力。

4 wielded   

手持着使用（武器、工具等）( wield的过去式和过去分词 )； 具有； 运用（权力）； 施加（影响）

参考例句：

• The bad eggs wielded power, while the good people were oppressed. 坏人当道，好人受气
• He was nominally the leader, but others actually wielded the power. 名义上他是领导者，但实际上是别人掌握实权。

5 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。

6 gorilla   

n.大猩猩，暴徒，打手

参考例句：

• I was awed by the huge gorilla.那只大猩猩使我惊惧。
• A gorilla is just a speechless animal.猩猩只不过是一种不会说话的动物。

7 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网