米歇尔•奥巴马在民主党大会上发表强有力的演讲

AS IT IS 2016-07-27 Michelle Obama Gives Powerful Speech at Democratic Convention 米歇尔•奥巴马在民主党大会上发表强有力的演讲

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Monday was the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Democratic Party is set to officially name Hillary Clinton as its presidential nominee¹.

The first night of the political meeting included many high-profile speeches in support of Clinton. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was until recently a Democratic presidential candidate himself. In his speech, he spoke² directly to his supporters in the audience and across the country. He urged them to now support Hillary Clinton for president.

Elizabeth Warren also spoke. The Massachusetts senator attacked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump³, calling him “a man who must never be president of the United States.”

But, it was First Lady Michelle Obama who stole the show in Philadelphia. Her powerful and emotional speech is already being called, by some, one of the best speeches in Democratic National Convention history.

She spoke as a mother who wishes for the next president to be a role model for her two children and for children across America. She said that, “in this election there is only one person I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I believe is truly qualified⁴ to be president of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton.”

She praised Clinton for her record as a public servant and her “lifelong devotion to our nation’s children.”

Obama became emotional when she talked about living for the past eight years in the White House, a house, she said "that was built by slaves.”

She said that she has watched her children, “two beautiful intelligent black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.”

The first lady also said that Hillary Clinton has shown her daughters and children around the country that it is possible for a woman to be president of the United States.

Obama did not say Trump’s name once in her 14-minute speech. But, she made remarks clearly directed at him.

She said that she wants the next president to be “someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.”

Trump often makes 140-character statements about his positions on his Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump.

And, she told the audience to not “let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again.”

Trump’s political slogan is “Make America Great Again.”

Political observers and people on social media praised the first lady’s speech.

Matthew Dowd worked on Republican President George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign. He tweeted Monday that Obama’s speech was the “best most effective speech of last two weeks and really the season.”

The New York Daily News even decided⁵ to quickly change its Tuesday front cover after Obama’s speech. It read: The Lady Is Her Champ.”

Last week, Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention was a headline topic, after Melania Trump’s speech included very similar words.

But her 2016 speech may go down as one of the most memorable⁶ of the entire election season.

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devotion -- n. the use of time, money, energy, etc., for a particular purpose?

steal the show -- expression. attract the most attention and praise

remark - n. something that someone says or writes to express an opinion or idea

boil down - phrasal verb. to shorten, simplify or summarize

slogan -- n. a word or phrase that is easy to remember and is used by a group or business to attract attention?

champ - n. (short for champion) someone who fights or speaks publicly in support of a person, belief, cause, etc.

1 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 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。

4 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

6 memorable   

adj.值得回忆的，难忘的，特别的，显著的

参考例句：

• This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
• The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。