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。

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。

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。