George Osborne refused to answer a simple times table as a panel of children quizzed him on his maths skills.
英國(guó)財(cái)政部長(zhǎng)喬治·奧斯本在一組兒童測(cè)驗(yàn)他的數(shù)學(xué)能力時(shí)，拒絕回答一道簡(jiǎn)單的乘法題目。

Asked to give the answer to 7x8 by Samuel Raddings, aged 7 from Manchester, one of the panel’s youngest interviewers, the Chancellor said he made it a "rule in life not to answer a load of maths questions".
這組小記者中的一員，來自曼徹斯特的7歲的薩默爾·拉丁斯提問7乘8等于幾。財(cái)政部長(zhǎng)說他的人生信條就是不回答數(shù)學(xué)問題。

Samuel helped out the Chancellor pointing out with no hesitation that 7x8 equals 56.
薩默爾幫財(cái)政部長(zhǎng)回答了這個(gè)問題，他毫不猶豫的報(bào)出了答案：56。

The young interviewer from a panel of readers of First News - the UK's first national newspaper for young people - had previously asked Mr Osborne whether he was “good at maths”.
First News是英國(guó)第一家面向年輕人的全國(guó)性報(bào)紙。這名小記者是該報(bào)的一名讀者。他在此前曾問奧斯本財(cái)長(zhǎng)的數(shù)學(xué)是否很好。

The Chancellor said he had done a “maths A-Level” and had been “tested at school”.
財(cái)長(zhǎng)說他通過了A-Level數(shù)學(xué)，也在學(xué)校里參加了測(cè)驗(yàn)。

“Of course there is a lot of maths in my job but it is also about making judgments about where the Government should spend its money”, he added.
他補(bǔ)充道：“顯然，在我的工作中有大量的數(shù)學(xué)，但主要是決定政府該往哪兒投錢?！?/div>

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