英语名人堂：尤利娅·季莫申科

尤利娅·弗拉基米罗芙娜·季莫申科（乌克兰语：Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко，拉丁拼写：Julia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko），1960年11月27日出生于乌克兰第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克，乌克兰著名政治人物。

出身贫寒，个性坚韧，拥有精明的商业头脑，曾垄断乌克兰的天然气供应，身家超过百亿元，被誉为“乌克兰的天然气公主”、“石油女皇”和“乌克兰铁娘子”。

1999年至2001年任乌克兰副总理，2005年2月至9月任乌克兰总理。2007年9月议会选举后，她再次出任政府总理。2011年10月11日，季莫申科因反对派起诉被判7年监禁后提起上诉。12月30日，季莫申科进入哈尔科夫州卡恰洛夫斯基女子监狱服刑。2014年2月22日晚，亚努科维奇倒台，季莫申科被最高行政议院无罪释放。[1]  并在首都基辅独立广场发表演讲，呼吁独立广场上的支持者们在没有达到所有预期目标之前一定要坚守信仰，[2]  此后由于身体不适赴德治疗。

 

Yulia Tymoshenko is Ukraine’s prime minister and one of the world’s few female leaders. She is head of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc¹. She was born in 1960 and spent her teenage years rising through the Soviet² Communist Youth Organization. She has a Ph.D. in economics and has written over 50 research papers.

 

Before she entered politics, Tymoshenko was a successful businesswoman. In 1989, she started a chain of video rental³ stores, which made her quite rich. After the collapse⁴ of the Soviet Union, she had several high positions in Ukraine’s oil and gas industries and became one of Ukraine’s richest people. Her newly found fortune allowed her to start up her own political party.

 

During Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, the Western media dubbed⁵ her as the nation’s Joan of Arc. She was appointed as acting⁶ prime minister in January 2005, but lost power in September that same year when Ukraine’s president dismissed her government. She returned to power in June 2006, following national elections. She is widely tipped to one day become President of Ukraine.

 

There are many other sides to Tymoshenko’s life. In 2001, she was voted as one of the most beautiful women to ever enter politics. She is also known for her trademark⁷ plaited hairstyle, which became iconic during the Orange Revolution, and which she keeps to this day. She once joked her hairstyle was “a steering⁸ wheel to drive the state”.

1 bloc   

n.集团；联盟

参考例句：

• A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
• There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。

2 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

3 rental   

n.租赁，出租，出租业

参考例句：

• The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
• We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。

4 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

5 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

7 trademark   

n.商标；特征；vt.注册的…商标

参考例句：

• The trademark is registered on the book of the Patent Office.该商标已在专利局登记注册。
• The trademark of the pen was changed.这钢笔的商标改了。

8 steering   

n.操舵装置

参考例句：

• He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration. 他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
• Steering according to the wind, he also framed his words more amicably. 他真会看风使舵，口吻也马上变得温和了。