奧巴馬長女將休學一年再上哈佛

Barack Obama's daughter Malia will take a year off after high school and attend Harvard University in 2017, the White House announced on last Sunday.

白宮方面上週日宣佈，貝拉克·奧巴馬的女兒瑪麗亞在高中畢業後會有一年的"間隔年"，將於2017年就讀哈佛大學。

Harvard encourages new admissions to take a "gap year" before or during their undergraduate years, so that the students can pursue work experiences outside of school.

據悉，哈佛大學鼓勵新學員在本科前或期間採取"間隔年"，這樣來追求校外工作經驗。

For the school's most famous new freshman, the year off could mean less attention when she does start classes in 2017, and time to build her resume.

作爲學校最有名的大一新生，"間隔年"可能意味着當瑪麗亞在2017年開始上課的時候會引來更少的關注，也給予她打造自己簡歷的時間。

First lady Michelle Obama has said that Malia hopes to become a film-maker, and that she worked last summer in New York as an intern on the set of the HBO show Girls.

第一夫人米歇爾·奧巴馬曾表示，瑪麗亞希望成爲一名電影製作人，去年夏天她曾在紐約爲HBO節目《女孩》擔任實習生。

Obama has said he intends to stay in Washington after he leaves the White House until his youngest daughter, Sasha, graduates from high school in 2019.

奧巴馬總統曾表示，離開白宮後，他打算繼續留在華盛頓，直到他的小女兒薩沙2019年高中畢業。

Even so, the first family has remained quiet about their plans after inauguration day on 20 January 2017, when someone else takes to the Oval Office. "We haven't figured that out yet," he told voters in Wisconsin earlier this year. "We're going to have to stay a couple of years so Sasha can finish."

即便如此，這個第一家庭還是對2017年1月20日之後的計劃保持沉默，這天，另有人選將入主白宮、就職美國總統。"我們還沒有想清楚，"今年早些時候奧巴馬告訴威斯康星州的選民，"我們會再呆上一兩年直到薩莎完成學業。"

Though usually extremely private, the president opened up to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres about his close relationship with his daughter. "I'm not ready for her to leave," he said. "She's one of my best friends. It's going to be hard for me not to have her around all the time, but she's ready to go. She's just a really smart, capable person and she's ready to make her own way."

雖然總統平時非常注重隱私，但是他卻對脫口秀節目主持人艾倫·德傑尼勒斯坦言自己與女兒的親密感情。"我還沒有準備好讓她離開，"他說道。"她是我最好的朋友之一。她長期不在我身邊對我來說是很難適應的，但她準備好離開了。她非常聰明，能幹，她已經準備好走她自己的路了。"