She has held high office under three prime ministers.

她曾在三任首相手下任过要职。

PRIME MINISTERS do not usually hand in their house keys.

通常情况下，首相不会交出他们的权力。

Japan has had five prime ministers since two thousand six.

自2006年以，日本已经换了5个首相。

Am I talking to some future Prime Ministers or Nobel Prize Laureates?

此刻我是否正在同未来的首相或者诺贝尔奖获得者们交谈？

Prime ministers should reach beyond Westminster for more of their hires.

首相们应该向威斯敏斯特议会之外寻求更多人才。

How many Japanese prime ministers have resigned in the last 15 years?

在过去的15年中有多少日本首相辞职？

Prime ministers no longer host summits: Herman Van Rompuy presides instead.

首相们不再主持峰会：取而代之的是赫尔曼•范龙佩。

AS PRIME MINISTERS, Edward Heath and Gordon Brown had quite a lot in common.

作为首相，爱德华·希斯和戈登·布朗有诸多共同点。

There is an exhibition about Emperor Qian Long and his Prime Ministers.

有一个乾隆皇帝和他的一些大臣的览。

In the past, second deputy prime ministers have been considered second in line to the throne.

过去，第二副首相都被看成是王位的第二顺位继承人。

SINCE 2006 Japan has had no fewer than five prime ministers. Three of them lasted just a year.

2006年以来，日本已经有过5位首相，其中的三位仅在任一年。

Most new prime ministers are in their early 40s. But the next one will be a grey-bearded veteran.

大多新首相都是四十出头，但下一个将是一个有灰白胡须的老手。

Few prime ministers can resist denouncing what Mr Cameron dubbed the "failed policies of the past".

面对卡梅隆称为的“过去失败的政策”，鲜有首相不会加以指摘。

Three recent British prime ministers-jim Callaghan, John Major and Tony blair-claim Irish ancestry.

近年来，有三位英国首相——吉姆·卡拉汉，约翰·梅耶和托尼·布莱尔——声称具有爱尔兰血统。

The decision was taken after a summit meeting between the Prime Ministers of the two countries.

这个决定是在一次两国首相的高层会议上作出的。

Up to last June, Japan had had four short-lived prime ministers in as many years, each underwhelming.

到六月为止，和多年来一样日本已有4个短任的首相，每个都没什么作为。

Her Prime Ministers have better reason than most to know and appreciate her knowledge and experience.

她辅弼有更好的来由比年夜大都知道和观赏她的学问和经历。

Taro Aso's grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida, and father-in-law, Zenko Suzuki, were both Prime Ministers of Japan.

麻生太郎的外祖父吉田茂和岳父铃木善幸都出任过日本首相。

On the contrary, Churchill turned out to be one of the best Prime Ministers Great Britain has ever seen.

相反，丘吉尔成了英国历史上最有名的几个首相之一。

Japan has endured four prime ministers between 2007 and 2009; another truncated premiership is a wearying prospect.

2007年到2009年间，日本忍受了四任首相；另一位首相中途卸任实在是令人厌烦的前景。

At 41, Fredrik Reinfeldt is one of Sweden's youngest prime ministers and sports one of the shortest hair styles.

现年41岁的林费尔德成为瑞典最年轻的首相之一，他同时也是头发最短的首相。

But—especially in such straitened times—prime ministers are mostly judged on how they cope with their domestic challenges.

但是，尤其是在如此贫困的时期，人们对首相的评判更多的取决于他们如何应对国内危机。

MOST British prime ministers end up trying to cut a dash on the world stage, even if at the outset they forswear such vanities.

大多数英国首相最终总是想要在国际舞台上大出风头，尽管最初上台时他们都发誓说绝不如此。

Q: These years have witnessed frequent changes of Japanese prime ministers. Does China think it will affect China-Japan relations?

问：这几年日本首相不断交替，中方认为这对中日关系的稳定有何影响？

He does indeed say things that could not possibly be true, but they are only the sorts of fibs that prime ministers are hired to tell.

他确实说事情不可能这样做，但是他们仅仅是利用首相所说的那种谎言。

The two countries' prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko, signed a formal agreement in Moscow on gas prices and direct sales.

两国首相，弗拉基米尔•普京和尤利娅•季莫申科（Yulia Tymoshenko），在莫斯科就供气价格与直接销售签署了一道正式协定。

Certainly, the prevalence has been lower among the 12 postwar British prime ministers; only two of them, Churchill and Callaghan, were left-handed.

当然，这个概率在二战以后，英国的12任首相中较低，12人中只有2个人是左撇子：丘吉尔和卡拉汉。