<BR><FONT face=宋体 size=3> </FONT> oll: First lady embraced, president not 民调显示：美国民众爱总统 更爱第一夫人 <FONT color=#0000ff>A survey finds that 73 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of first lady Laura Bush. </FONT>
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Far more Americans think highly of first lady Laura Bush than they think of her husband, a poll released recently said.
一项最新的民意调查显示，美国人爱第一夫人甚于爱总统。
Fewer than half of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of President Bush and his top aides, about the same number who said that last summer, the poll found.
调查发现，不到一半的美国人说他们对总统布什和其他高级官员的看法还不错，人数跟去年夏天所做的调查差不多。
But nearly three out of four (73 percent) said they have a favorable opinion of Laura Bush, the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll said. Thirteen percent described their opinion of her as unfavorable.
然而，将近四分之三（73%）的民众说他们很喜欢劳拉·布什，只有13%的人持反面意见。这次调查是由美国有线新闻网、今日美国以及盖勒普公司共同发起的。
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The telephone poll of 1,003 adult American adults was conducted December 16-18 and has a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
此次电话民调从12月16日进行到18日，共有1003个美国成年人参加。抽样调查误差在3个百分点左右。
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Asked their opinions of the president, 46 percent said they were favorable, a figure statistically equivalent to the 48 percent who gave that response in a July 25-28 poll.
在问到对总统的看法时，46%的人认为"不错"，这和今年7月25日至28日的民意调查结果大致相当，当时有48%的民众给出了正面的评价。
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In the latest survey, Bush earned an unfavorable rating from 53 percent of respondents.
而在这次电话民意调查中，有53%的人说"不喜欢"布什。
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Vice President Dick Cheney earned favorable ratings from 41 percent of respondents and unfavorable ones from 50 percent; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld received favorable ratings from 42 percent of respondents and unfavorable ones from 45 percent.
副总统迪克·切尼得到41%的满意票，50%的不满意票；而国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德的满意票和不满意票分别是42%和45%。
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A CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll，which was also conducted December 16-18 found Bush's approval rating -- which measures how well the public believes a president is doing his job and is different from his favorability rating -- stood at 41 percent, while more than half, or 56 percent, disapprove of how the president is handling his job.
另一项由美国有线新闻、今日美国以及盖勒普公司共同策划的总统"支持率"调查也在12月16日至18日进行，调查发现布什的支持率仍然是41%，而有56%的民众对布什总统的工作表示不满。支持率和满意率不同，支持率指的是公众对总统的工作及其执政能力的评价。
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