奥巴马上任一周年，工作得失参半。据一家权威网站统计，奥巴马在竞选总统期间曾作出过500个承诺，但是上任一周年，他又实现了多少呢？

　　Welcome back. Well, for president Obama, the campaign trail was long and hard, nearly two years of stumping before he won the big race. And what that made was a very long list ofcampaign promises. Twelve months later, what’s become of those pledges?What’s been kept? And what’s been broken? Candy Cowley takes a look。

　　stump这个动词的意思是to travel around an area, meeting people andmaking speeches in order to gain political support(巡回演说，争取政治上的支持)，stump本身也可以作名词，也可以解释为‘巡回演说’。

　　On that unusually bomby Chicago night last November, the candidate who campaigned on the fierce urgency of now became the president-elect who needed time。

　　The fierce urgency of now这个举行最早是出自马丁•路德•金的著名演讲《I have a dream》，是指‘当下及其紧迫的时刻’。

　　“We may not get there in one year or even in one term。”

　　A year later, president Barack Obama still needs time to turn a myriad of campaign promises into policy, and that includes some bigones—immigration reform, new financial market regulations, again-changing energy bill。

　　myriad这个词通常的句型是a myriad of或是myriads of，意思是a very large number of。

　　“In ten years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela。”

　　The list of the undones is long, varied and mostly difficult。

　　“I have stated repeatedly that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ makes no sense。”

　　But that policy remains in place. Still the president is on track tofulfilling several major promises. The majority of US troops will becalled from Iraq next year though fifty thousand may remain. Moretroops had been sent to Afghanistan. He has ordered Guantanamo Bayprison close though he’s likely to miss his self-imposed January deadline。

　　self-imposed可以说是一个rule或是一个duty，这个rule或是duty是你自己规定的，没有别人非要你这么做。 

　　Domestically,two issues have dominated the first ten months—health care and theeconomy, stoke by a nearly eight hundred billion dollar stimulus bill。

　　“Our plan will likely save or create three to four million jobs. 90% of these jobs will be created in the private sector。”

　　Here’s the thing about that. How do you count people who don’t get fired?

　　“The administration can claim what they like. We have no way ofknowing how many jobs were actually saved as supposed to created。”

　　Health care is a working progress, but two of the things that president proposed in campaign—mandatory insurance and finds for people who don’t have it—are nonetheless likely to end up in the bill。

　　A Pulitzer Prize winning website, PolitiFact.come, tracks more than 500 Obama campaign promises. The vast majority are rated ‘NO Action’.Candy Cowley, CNN, New York。

　　Well, joining us now is Bill Adair, editor-in-chief ofPolitiFact.com, thanks for being with us. Now, Bill, you’ve cataloguedmore than five hundred Obama campaign promises in your Obamater. So howis the US president doing so far?

　　Well, he’s made a fair amount of progress on many promises. We’vegot total of 52 promises rated as ‘Promises Kept’. We’ve got 7 as‘Promises Broken’. And we’ve got another 14 that we’ve rated‘compromised’. So, you know, for the first nine months or so, I thinkhe’s made a fair amount of progress。

　　So let’s look at those significant promises that he’s kept then. What are they?

　　Well, most of them involve things that he can do with purepresidential power, things where he doesn’t need Congress’s approval,‘cause that’s where he’s run into some bumps, wherehe has to deal with either his own Democrtic majority or a very vocalRepublican minority. But of those 52 promises kept, some of them arequite significant including his promise that on his first day in officethat he would direct military leaders to end the war in Iraq. We’verated that a ‘promise kept’. Another one is, he said during thecampaign, he would send two additional brigades to Afghanistan. And he fulfilled that promise although, of course now he’s considering whether more troops are needed。

　　run into some bumps: bump本身是碰撞、肿块的意思，这里是说奥巴马总统每当碰到要和议会统筹合作的问题就比较费力，所以这里可以解释为‘碰壁’。

　　Also, so looking at your tally, what are the biggest broken promises?

　　The biggest broken promises involve, I guess what I would describeas sort of ‘the reality of Washington’. He made a lot of promises abouttransparency, trying to conduct government in the open. And those are the ones, they represents several of the promises broken. For instance,he said that he would end the revolving door for lobbyists,lobbyists who work in the administration, then go to work for a…as alobbyist for a trade association, then come back to the administration.But we found that at least a couple of cases where he’s broken that. Sowe got that one rated as ‘Promise Broken’. Another one on transparencyhe said he would conduct negotiations for health care reform openly onC-SPAN, the cable network and have all those meetings public. Well,that hasn’t happen. There was one meeting that was televised. But thedebate about the health care bill, the way that the health care billhas been put together is very much business as usual in Washington.It’s been done behind close doors。

　　All right, you know, no doubt, the US president has discovered thegoverning is harder than campaigning, right? But he has at lease threeyears two months left to go. Bill Adair, thanks so much。

　　Thank you。

　　All right. Time to answer the mail. Frank from Kenya wants to knowis the tradition of having protraits of presidents painted still being practiced?

　　Well, Frank, in fact, they get a pair of pictures. The official portrait is a photograph until the president leaves the office. Then an officialportrait is painted of the former president. Presidents often displaytheir favorite pictures in the Oval Office or around the White House.The rest, end up in the museum. The tradition goes back to the veryfirst US president, with Gilbert Steward’s protrait of GeorgeWashington. Not to be outdone, other presidential paintings werecommissioned and every president has had a painting in some way oranother. J.F Kennedy’s portraint was painted after he was assassinatedin office。