希拉里·克林顿

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, born on October 26, 1947 in Illinois, is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was born to Hugh E. Rodham, who managed a successful small business in drapery making, and Dorothy Howell Rodham, a full-time homemaker. Both of them were Republicans.

希拉里·戴安·罗德姆·克林顿，1947年10月26日生于伊利诺斯州，现任美国国务卿。父亲休E罗德姆经营布料生意，小有成就；母亲多萝西豪威尔罗德姆则是全职太太。父母都是共和党人。

When she was 14 years old, inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, Hillary wrote to NASA, asking how she could become an astronaut. She got a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program. Later, she recalled, "It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl".

希拉里14岁的时候，因受美国第一位太空人艾伦·谢泼德的激励，曾给美国航空航天局写信询问自己怎样才能成为一名宇航员，却得到这样一个简单的回答：美国航 空航天计划概不招募女性。后来，希拉里回忆说，"那是我第一次意识到，因为我是一个女孩，有些机会可能就会与我无缘。"

In 1965, Rodham enrolled at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she majored in political science. During her freshman year, she became head of the local chapter of the Young Republicans. There she slowly turned leftward in politics, and became a supporter of the anti-war presidential nomination campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy. She graduated in 1969 and wrote her senior thesis on poverty and community development. As the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College, she received a standing ovation, appeared in Life magazine and attracted national attention after shocking the audience by criticizing the first speaker, Senator Edward W. Brooke.

1965年，希拉里进人马萨诸塞州的韦尔兹利（女子）学院读书，主攻政治学。大学一年级，她便成为青年共和党人在该校分部的领袖。在那里，她在政治上逐渐变得左倾，转而拥护反战的民主党候选人尤金麦卡锡。她于1969年毕业，毕业论文以贫困与社区发展为主题。作为第一个在毕业典礼上发表讲话的学生代表，她对第一个发言的参议员爱德华W布鲁克表示指责，让观众们目瞪口呆，随后大家起立给予她长时间热烈的掌声。因此，她也登上了《生活》杂志，受到全国人民的关注。

In the summer of 1970, after hearing Marian Wright Edelman speak, she was inspired to volunteer to work for Edelman's Washington Research Project, which later became the Children Defense Fund. This was the beginning of her lifelong friendship and commitment to children's issues.

1970年的夏天，为玛莉·安赖特·埃德尔曼的演讲所鼓舞，她成为了埃德尔曼华盛顿研究项目的志愿者，这个项目后来发展成为儿童保护基金。从此，希拉里与儿童事业结下了不解之缘。

While at Yale, Hillary met and fell in love with her lifelong political spouse Bill Clinton. She received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973, having stayed on an extra year to be with Clinton. She began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center. Clinton first proposed marriage to her but she declined.

在耶鲁大学读书时，希拉里结识了她终生的政治伴侣比尔克林顿，并与之相爱。 为了与克林顿在一起，她多待了一年，于1973年获得法学博士学位。她在耶鲁儿童研究中心做了一年的儿童及医疗问题研究。克林顿曾向她求婚，但是她拒绝了。