盤點(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.

　　在過去的一百年中，美國的總統(tǒng)們?cè)絹碓?ldquo;左傾”，這不是指他們的政見，而是他們的用手習(xí)慣。二十世紀(jì)以來一長串左撇子總統(tǒng)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(tǒng)、胡佛總統(tǒng)、杜魯門總統(tǒng)、里根總統(tǒng)、老布什總統(tǒng)和克林頓總統(tǒng)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(tǒng)當(dāng)選呢？一些專家認(rèn)為，左撇子人群的語言運(yùn)用能力更強(qiáng)，這種能力或許可以使他們?cè)诮M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(tǒng)出現(xiàn)更為集中的問題，有些人認(rèn)為這和教師最近停止對(duì)左撇子兒童進(jìn)行右手使用糾正訓(xùn)練有關(guān)。