- オンリー・ワン
p 372 畢。未来永劫、ゆるぎない、天地神明に誓って一番、最高などと記述するのは、畏れ多いことであって (only god knows) 、the highest mountain in the world にしたって、噴火してその山の天辺が飛んでしまってトップの座を明け渡すことだってありうる
- Sarah Palin and Barack Obama enter Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
ten quotes new to the latest edition:
- 偉大な賞だが、しかし....?
that's not to say it wasn't an impressive achievement. それが印象に残る業績ではなかった、というべきではない
- NEF講演会サマリー（09年6月20日）
that is what we started here in iowa, and that is the message we can now carry to n
- Okinawa hovers at the negotiating table/田中秀征（元経済企画庁長官）財務省の「一人天下」を止められるか
this quirky footnote to japanese (and bolivian) history illustrates a broader point. okinawa, a semi-independent kingdom
until it was formally annexed by
japan in 1879, has always had a raw deal.
barack obama, the us president, should ponder this fact when he arrives in tokyo tomorrow against the backdrop of a messy
tussle over an okinawan base for us marines. he should know that there are
three – not two – parties to any discussions about the us-japan alliance, the
half-century old military arrangement that has underpinned postwar asian
stability. like banquo’s ghost, okinawa hovers uncomfortably at the table.
- Mitchell extends Mideast trip to push for Obama-
similarly, the palestinian street is very wary of jumping into bed with netanyahu. palestinian popular opinion says he represents a hawkish line that does not want to see a palestinian state alongside israel, despite his comments to the contrary.
- オバマ大統領がノーベル平和賞！
the norweigian novel committee decided that the nobel peace prize for 2009 is to be awarded to
president barack obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen
international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. the committee
has attached special importance to obama's vision of and work for a
world without nuclear weapons. 日本語に訳してみます
- クライスラーの経営再建とフィアットとの提携
president barack obama, speaking at a town-hall style event near st. louis, said earlier wednesday that he didn't know if a deal to save chrysler would be completed. we're hoping that you can get a merger where the taxpayers will put in some money to sweeten the deal but, ultimately, the goal is we get out of the business of building cars, and chrysler goes and starts creating the cars that consumers want, he said.
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