盤(pán)點(diǎn)左撇子名人

　　No.1 Barack Obama 巴拉克·奧巴馬

　　In the past hundred years, the U.S. presidency has veered more and more to the left--not in policy, but in handedness. Barack Obama is the latest to join a long list of left-handed presidents from the 20th century: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Henry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton were all southpaws.

　　在過(guò)去的一百年中，美國的總統們越來(lái)越“左傾”，這不是指他們的政見(jiàn)，而是他們的用手習慣。二十世紀以來(lái)一長(cháng)串左撇子總統名單中，奧巴馬是最近加入的一個(gè)。在他之前，加菲爾德總統、胡佛總統、杜魯門(mén)總統、里根總統、老布什總統和克林頓總統都是左撇子。

　　What makes lefties so electable? Some experts think left-handed people have a greater aptitude for language skills, which may help them craft the rhetoric necessary for political office. And as for the bout of recent left-handed presidents, some think it's because teachers only recently stopped working to convert lefties to righties at an early age.

　　怎么會(huì )有那么多左撇子總統當選呢？一些專(zhuān)家認為，左撇子人群的語(yǔ)言運用能力更強，這種能力或許可以使他們在組織一些政治措辭時(shí)更為游刃有余。而至于近些年左撇子總統出現更為集中的問(wèn)題，有些人認為這和教師最近停止對左撇子兒童進(jìn)行右手使用糾正訓練有關(guān)。