广播电视英语短句 第 295 课：日本首相-1

Japan 's parliament is expected to vote on September sixteenth to make Yukio Hatoyama the next prime minister. 日本国会期望于 9 月 16 日对鸠山由纪夫就任日本首相进行表决。

Later this month he plans to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York and the Group of Twenty meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 本月晚些时候，他将计划出席在纽约举行的联合国大会和在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡举行的 20 国峰会。

His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. 日本民主党（ PDJ ）终结了自民党（ LDP ）长达 55 年的连续统治。

The D.P.J. won almost two-thirds of the seats in lower house elections last Sunday. 上个星期天，民主党在下议院选举中赢得了几乎 2/3 的席位。

Not bad after just eleven years as a party. 仅仅 11 年后取得这样的成绩对一个政党来说还算不错。