盤點左撇子名人

　　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)們越來越“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。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.

　　怎么會有那么多左撇子總統(tǒng)當選呢？一些專家認為，左撇子人群的語言運用能力更強，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，有些人認為這和教師最近停止對左撇子兒童進行右手使用糾正訓(xùn)練有關(guān)。