奧巴馬總統在華盛頓租下一棟豪宅 以供卸任後居住

President Obama and his family will move into an 8,200-square-foot (790sqm), red-brick home about two miles (3.2km) from his current address after he leaves office in January.

在明年一月卸任後，奧巴馬總統及其家人將搬到一幢佔地8200平方英尺（約合790平米）、由紅磚建造的新家裏，該處距白宮2英里（約合3.2公里）。

The Obama family still own a home in Chicago, however, the president has said he would remain in Washington until his 14-year-old daughter, Sasha, graduates from the Sidwell Friends School in 2018.

但是，奧巴馬一家人還在芝加哥擁有一套房子。總統此前曾表示，自己將繼續待在華盛頓，直到2018年其14歲大的女兒--莎夏--從西德維爾友誼中學畢業。

Mr Obama's new home, which is valued around $6m, is near Embassy Row in the Kalorama section of the district. The president will count French ambassador Gerard Araud, the embassy of Oman and the European Union ambassador to the US as his new neighbours.

據悉，奧巴馬的新家價值高達600萬美元，位於華盛頓科絡拉瑪的使館區附近。在挑選新鄰居方面，奧巴馬將會在法國大使傑勒德·阿勞德、阿曼大使和歐盟駐美國大使之間權衡。

Bart Gordon, a former Democratic congressman from Tennessee, also lives next door to the soon-to-be Obama residence.

來自田納西州的前民主黨議員戈登也住在奧巴馬新家的隔壁。

"I think it's a brilliant stroke for them to move here, they're surrounded by a lot of people who are still politically active," said Susan Harreld, a Kalorama resident who lives nearby. "It's a very family-oriented neighbourhood, which is great for Sasha, but also a very private neighbourhood."

科絡拉瑪附近一位居民蘇珊·哈羅德表示：“我認爲他們（奧巴馬一家）搬到這裏來是一個很明智的決定。在他們的鄰居里，很多人仍然在政壇上十分活躍。這是一個以家庭爲主的街區，這對莎夏來說很好。但同時，這也是一個非常私人的街區。”

Mr Obama will rent the home, which is unoccupied, from Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary and senior adviser to Bill Clinton. Mr Lockhart and his wife, Giovanna Gray Lockhart, moved to New York City after he became the vice president of communications for the National Football League.

這幢房屋目前尚無人居住，而奧巴馬將從比爾·克林頓的前任新聞祕書、高級顧問喬·洛克哈特手中租下他的新家。在擔任美國國家橄欖球聯盟通信副總裁之後，洛克哈特和他的妻子--喬瓦娜·格雷·洛克哈特--一起搬到了紐約。

But Mr Obama will not be the first president to reside in the prominent community. Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Warren Harding, Franklin D Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover also called Kalorama home at different points in their lives.

不過奧巴馬並不是首位在這個著名街區里居住的美國總統。許多美國總統都曾在科絡拉瑪的各地段擁有居所，比如伍德羅·威爾遜、威廉·霍華德·塔夫脫、沃倫·哈定、富蘭克林·羅斯福和赫伯特·胡佛。