【女强人】with the "first woman to..." tag

Christine Lagarde

     Christine Lagarde, recently the French Finance Minister, has succeeded Dominique Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), following his resignation.

    Poised, chic and a fluent English speaker, she is second only to President Nicolas Sarkozy as France's most recognisable politician on the world stage.

     Ms Lagarde, 55, is the first woman to head the IMF.

     But then throughout her career she has already become familiar with the "first woman to..." tag.

【关键词】

1.   IMF  =  International Monetary Fund  国际货币基金组织

2.   resignation [ˌrezɪgˈneɪʃən]辞职

3.   poised [pɔɪzd] 镇定的

4.   chic [ʃi:k] 别致的

5.   throughout [θru:ˈaʊt] 遍及