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，美國的總統們越來越“左傾”，這不是指他們的政見，而是他們的用手習慣。二十世紀以來一長串左撇子總統名單中，奧巴馬是最近加入的一個。在他之前，加菲爾德總統、胡佛總統、杜魯門總統、里根總統、老布什總統和克林頓總統都是左撇子。

　　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出現更為集中的問題，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練有關。