| 释义 |
Examples:the storm put strong grass the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister—Benazir Bhut(1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda—the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles)—FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008—a government official drives the people revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people—Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan people's party politician, prime minister from 2008—Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, Minister of Commerce from 2004, Politburo member from 2007—Noda Yoshihiko, Prime Minister of Japan (2 September 2011 ~)—KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991—Vladimir Putin (1952-), career KGB officer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2000, prime minister from 2008—Prince KONOE Fumimaro (1891-), Japanese nobleman and militarist politician, prime minister 1937-1939 and 1940-1941—Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-), Thai businessman and politician, prime minister 2001-2006—Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), liberal educationalist, studied in Germany, President of Beijing University 1917-19, minister of education for Guomindang—Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)—Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963—Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880—Vojislav Kostunica (1944-), Serbian politician, prime minister from 2004—Zhou Bo (?-169 BC), military man and politician at the Qin-Han transition, a founding minister of Western Han—HAMADA Yasukazu (1955-), Japanese defense minister from 2008—Ms Sheikh Hasina (1947-), Bangladesh politician, prime minister 1996-2001 and from 2008—Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister from 2009—Gordon Brown (1951-), UK politician, prime minister 2007-2010—Anwar bin Ibrahim (1947-), Malaysian politician, deputy prime minister 1993-1998, imprisoned 1999-2004 on charges including alleged homosexual acts, subsequently overturned—Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and Prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 208 BC—Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949-), prime minister of Vietnam (2006-)—José Manuel Durão Barroso (1956-), Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal 2002-04, President of EU Commission from 2004—Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004—Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976—ITŌ Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese Meiji restoration politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin—Fu Shuo (c. 14th century BC), legendary sage and principal minister of Shang ruler Wu Ding—Li Peng (1928-), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown—Martin Luther (1483-1546), reformation protestant minister—ASŌ Tarō (1940-), Japanese entrepreneur and LDP politician, prime minister 2008-2009—KAN Nao(1946-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister from 2010—José Luis Zapatero (1960-), Spanish PSOE politician, prime minister of Spain from 2004—traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption—Jan Pieter Balkenende (1956-), prime minister of the Netherlands from 2002—Jose Socrates, prime minister of Portugal from 2005—Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minister of Poland from 2007— |