The world bears witness to the sanctioned murder of a foreign political figure by the United States.

全世界都亲眼见证了一个外国政要被美国人谋杀。

Although the event, which featured a well known political figure as the speaker, provided an American Sign Language interpreter, there were neither assistive listening devices nor captioning.

此事由演讲者——一位众所周知的政坛名人发起的，虽然它提供了美国手语翻译机，却没有助听设备也没有字幕。

She certainly was a dominating figure, a leader who gave her name to a political philosophy.

她的确是个很有影响力的人物，是一位能使一派政治哲学以她而命名的领袖。

Orphaned and of humble origins, Jackson cut a very different figure in the American political landscape from the pedigreed Virginia and New England gentry who surrounded him.

孤僻与谦虚天性使然，杰克森为美国政坛带来一幅与周边的佛吉尼亚和新英格兰的纯种绅士完全不同的全新景象。

Yet for all his flaws, one thing cannot be doubted: Mr Brown has for 20 years been a giant on the British political landscape, a Gladstonian figure with a constant claim to a "moral compass".

然而，不论他有着怎样的缺点，有一件事是不容置疑的：20年来布朗一直是英国政界的一个巨人，一个始终恪守“道德指南针”的格莱斯顿式巨人。

Mr Scheuer, who was speaking at the Festival, in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, is a controversial figure in intelligence and political circles.

在文学节上讲这些话的朔伊尔先生，在政界一直是个颇具争议的怪才。

The figure on page 22 shows a political map of Africa.

第22页的插图是非洲的政区图。

As a novelist, poet, political activist, and painter, Victor Hugo was a central figure in the Romantic movement of 19th-century France.

作为一名小说家，诗人，活动家和画家，维克多·雨果是法国十八世纪浪漫主义运动的核心人物。