名人的故事：撒切爾夫人軼事

　　Baroness Thatcher, Britain's greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced.Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning。

　　英國(guó)戰(zhàn)后時(shí)期最偉大的首相瑪格麗特·撒切爾在今天4月8日因?yàn)橹酗L(fēng)去世，享年87歲。撒切爾夫人的家人在今日宣布了這一消息。她的兒子馬克爵士和女兒卡羅爾·撒切爾證實(shí)了母親在今晨去世的消息。

　　Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning. A further statement will be made later."

　　撒切爾夫人的發(fā)言人貝爾表示：“馬克和卡羅爾·撒切爾很悲傷地宣布，他們的母親在今天早晨因?yàn)橹酗L(fēng)去世，她走得很平靜。撒切爾夫人的家人稍后將會(huì)出一份詳細(xì)的聲明。”

　　Known as the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher governed Britain from 1979 to 1990.

　　瑪格麗特·撒切爾被人們譽(yù)為“鐵娘子”，于1979年到1990年間執(zhí)政英國(guó)。

　　She will go down in history not only as Britain's first female prime minister, but as the woman who transformed Britain's economy in addition to being a formidable rival on the international stage。

　　她不僅是英國(guó)歷史上第一位女首相，她還帶領(lǐng)英國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)的發(fā)展，讓英國(guó)成為國(guó)際舞臺(tái)上一個(gè)令人畏懼的強(qiáng)大競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手。

　　Lady Thatcher was the only British prime minister to leave behind a set of ideas about the role of the state which other leaders and nations strove to copy and apply。

　　作為英國(guó)首相，撒切爾夫人還留下了很多關(guān)于國(guó)家角色的觀點(diǎn)，讓后來(lái)的英國(guó)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者和其他國(guó)家都紛紛效仿和實(shí)踐。

　　【小科普】

　　Thatcherism：撒切爾主義是撒切爾夫人上臺(tái)后的一股“新右派”勢(shì)力的意識(shí)形態(tài)，是當(dāng)代西方“新自由主義”與“保守主義”的混血兒”。英國(guó)在撒切爾主義主宰下，一掃經(jīng)濟(jì)政治頹勢(shì)，基本治愈所謂“英國(guó)病”。