Juan Manuel Santos resigned as defence minister to launch a presidential bid but said he would not run against Mr Uribe.

JuanManuelSantos辞去国防部长一职开展总统竞选，但是他表明将不会反对MrUribe。

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Mr. Ohata said he had pressed the Chinese minister to normalize rare-earth shipments. Mr.

Ohata表示，他已经敦促中国商务部部长使稀土出口正常化。

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The man appointed this week as foreign minister to make diplomatic harmony out of this cacophony is Katsuya Okada.

本周被提名为外相、以从这种乱局中创造出外交和谐的人物是冈田克也。

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Nor were investors impressed by this week's promises by George Papandreou, the prime minister, to cut the deficit to under 3% by 2013.

本周总理乔治•帕潘德里欧承诺到2013年将赤字削减到3%以下，但投资者并未对此“感冒”。

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The move could be designed to appease a cross-party group of 20 lawmakers who have petitioned the prime minister to revise the accord.

此举可能是为了取悦20名来自不同党派的立法者，他们曾向总理要求修改协议。

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Talk of ousting Mr Aso makes the LDP look desperate: he would be the fourth prime minister to quit in as many years.

此时谈到让麻生先生下台显示自民党已走投无路：他将是在几年内第四个辞职的总理大臣[3]。

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The move from minister to state company boss seemed baffling to many of his colleagues.

从部长转向国有企业老板对他的很多同事来说莫名其妙。

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But he did entrust the key post of secretary of state (a kind of prime minister), to a canny ex-diplomat, Cardinal Angelo Sodano.

但是他将国务卿（一种首相）这个关键岗位委托给精明苏达诺枢机主教。他曾是位外交官。

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Alas, an immediate and overwhelmingly negative reaction forced the prime minister to backtrack just 48 hours later.

但是由于立即招到扑面而来的反对使得总理被迫撤销这个提出仅48小时的议案。

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Yet now he claims to be the first foreign minister to welcome China's rise.

但现在他声称自己是首个表示欢迎中国崛起的日本外相。

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That is not enough for Tory MPs. They want the prime minister to use changes in the EU's architecture to secure concessions.

但这对于保守党议员来说是不够的。他们想要首相利用欧盟的结构变化来赢得让步。

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"No, no. I insist no" , was the response of Spain's finance minister to the prospect of a bigger Greek write-down.

对于更大的希腊债务消减，西班牙的财政部长大声疾呼：“不行，不行，我坚持反对。”

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But most also wanted the prime minister to visit Yasukuni, Tokyo's militarist shrine, on remembrance day.

而大多数人也同时希望他们的首相能在祭奠日前往靖国神社。

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The opposition leader challenged the prime minister to call an election.

反对党领袖要求首相宣布进行大选。

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Opposition leaders have been urging the prime minister to resign, accusing him of weak leadership.

反对派领袖已经在敦促首席辞职，指责他领导能力太弱。

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So here he was, cock of the walk, with two women to minister to his needs. The atmosphere was tense.

父亲那时就像是个土皇帝，有两个女人伺候他。气氛有些紧张。

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It worked directly under the Shah, and I was made deputy prime minister to make the lines of communication as clear as possible.

该机构在国王的直接领导下运作。为使沟通渠道尽可能清晰，我被任命为副总理。

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During the meeting, Mr. Wen invited the Japanese prime minister to visit China at a convenient time.

会晤期间，温家宝邀请日本首相在方便的时候访问中国。

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It is the job of a finance minister to talk up his economy.

看好本国经济是一个财政部长的职责所在。

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Insiders say he has kept down potential successors, making it hard for Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, to sack him.

内部人士透露达干一直在打压有潜力的年轻继任者，这样一来也让以色列总理本亚明·内塔尼亚胡不敢轻易炒掉他。

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Nicolas Sarkozy stepped down as France's interior minister to concentrate on running for the French presidency.

尼古拉•萨尔科齐已正式宣布辞去法国内部大臣的职务，专心投入总统竞选。

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But it became impossible for the foreign minister to do her job.

然而让前外交部长继续保留职位绝无可能。

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The last prime minister to offer a masakaki to Yasukuni was Yasuhiro Nakasone in 1985.

日本首相上一次向靖国神社奉送供品，是1985年的中曾根康弘（YasuhiroNakasone）。

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If Mr Klaus can be persuaded to sign, the EU could be looking for a new president and foreign minister to start work in January 2010.

若能说服克劳斯签署条约，欧盟可能就会寻找一位新主席和外交部长，以便在2010年1月开始工作。

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Last month Mr Zardari joined forces with Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister, to hound Pervez Musharraf from the presidency.

上个月扎尔达里与前总理纳瓦兹•谢里夫联手迫使佩尔韦兹•穆沙拉夫从辞去总统一职。

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He left his prime minister to oversee flood relief, claiming to be raising awareness overseas of Pakistan's plight.

他让总理监督洪灾的救援工作并称正在让海外对巴基斯坦的困境有更好的认识。

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Thaksin was the only Thai prime minister to serve a full term and remains hugely popular.

他信是泰国唯一一位服满任期并在之后仍广受爱戴的总理。

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Many had expected Italy's prime minister to stand down if he failed to secure a sufficiently large majority.

外界此前多认为如果未能够获得足够多数票，这位意大利总理很有可能下台收场。

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He dispatched Thierry Breton, his finance minister, to talk to other big shareholders.

为此，他派遣了经济部长蒂埃里.布勒东，与其他大股东斡旋。

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We expect our prime minister to recognise that the poor are victims of pollution and environmental degradation - not its cause.

希望总理能意识到穷人是作为环境污染和恶化的受害者，而不是环境破坏者。

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