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Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has compared the challenge of fighting climate change to her own struggle to lose weight.
Speaking to State Department staff on Earth Day, Mrs Clinton said more must be done to reduce the department's environmental footprint and conceded this was a big challenge, much like one of her personal battles.
"Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about," she said to laughter.
"You think, oh I only have to lose X numbers of pounds but it seems like such a far away goal," she added.
"It's kind of like world peace and so therefore why even try? Well, because we are called to try. That's who we are as human beings and that's especially how we think of ourselves as Americans."
Later, Mrs Clinton defended the right to abortion and the Obama administration's decision to finance family planning overseas.
"I've been in hospitals in Brazil where half the women were enthusiastically and joyfully greeting new babies and the other half were fighting for their lives against botched abortions," she told Congress.
"I've been in African countries where 12 and 13-year-old girls are bearing children. I have been in Asian countries where the denial of family planning consigns women to lives of oppression and hardship.
"It is my strongly held view that you are entitled to advocate and everyone who agrees with you should be free to do so anywhere in the world, and so are we."
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美國國務卿希拉里?克林頓日前在一次講話中將應對氣候變化的挑戰比作她自己減肥所經歷的考驗。
希拉里在世界地球日當天對國會工作人員發表講話時稱，為減少國會的“碳足跡”，還需要做出更多的努力，并稱這是一個很大的挑戰，跟她個人的減肥戰斗差不多。
希拉里說：“很多時候，當你面對全球氣候變化這樣一個艱巨的挑戰時，多少會心生膽怯——這有點像減肥，對此我深有體會。”聽眾們聞后發出陣陣笑聲。
“你會想，哦，我只需減掉幾磅就可以了，但卻似乎是個非常遙遠的目標。”
“這有點類似世界和平，那么為什么還要去嘗試呢？因為我們必須去嘗試。這就是我們作為人類所應該做的，這就是我們作為美國人應該做的。”
之后，希拉里對墮胎權以及奧巴馬政府發布的允許資助海外計劃生育的決策進行辯護。
她說：“我曾在巴西的醫院看到有一些女人為她們新出生的孩子開心地慶祝，而另有一些女人則因拙劣的墮胎手術掙扎在生死邊緣。”
“我曾在非洲國家看到十二三歲的女孩懷上孩子。我曾在亞洲國家看到不允許計劃生育使婦女陷入壓抑與痛苦。”
“我強烈認為，你們有權倡導這一理念，每個與你們持有相同觀點的人在世界的各個地方都有權這么做，我們也一樣。”
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（英語點津姍姍編輯）
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