白宮寵物秀——第一家族的狗狗！

無論是意志剛強(qiáng)的戰(zhàn)時總統(tǒng)羅斯福，還是零九年焦點(diǎn)人物奧巴馬，美國總統(tǒng)展現(xiàn)給世人的總是威嚴(yán)莊重的形象。然而私底下他們也有不為人知的柔情的一面，白宮種類繁多的寵物就是最好的證明。從聰明的拉布拉多犬到可愛的小貓崽，讓我們來看看白宮的“第一寵物”如何“叱咤風(fēng)云”。

When Barack Obama won his bid for the presidency， he promised his daughters that they could choose a puppy. One of the concerns is that Malia Obama has allergies. The family chose a hypoallergenic Portuguese Water Dog with encouragement from Senator Ted Kennedy， who presented the first family with the dog as a gift. The puppy received his current name from president Obama’s two daughters， Malia and Sasha， in part after their cousin’s cat and Michelle Obama’s father’s nickname Diddley； the dog is a manesake of deceased singer Bo Diddley.

In June 2009， the White House released a baseball card for Bo with his new official portrait on one side and tongue-in-cheek statistics on the other； information included the facts that Bo’s favorite food is tomatoes and that he does not yet know how to swim.

貝拉克·奧巴馬贏得總統(tǒng)大選后，答應(yīng)兩個女兒領(lǐng)養(yǎng)一只小狗。考慮到瑪莉亞·奧巴馬有過敏癥，第一家庭選擇了一只不易引起過敏的葡萄牙水犬，這是參議員泰德·肯尼迪送給第一家庭的禮物。小狗現(xiàn)在的名字是奧巴馬總統(tǒng)的兩個女兒瑪莉亞和薩沙取的，一半取自她們表妹的一只叫“波”的貓，另一半取自米歇爾·奧巴馬父親的綽號“迪德利”，于是這只狗便與一位已故的歌手同名，叫做“波·迪德利”。

2009年6月，白宮為“波”發(fā)行了一張棒球卡片，一面是他新拍攝的官方照片，另一面是一些半開玩笑的信息，包括“波”最喜歡的食物是西紅柿，它還沒有學(xué)會游泳等。