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Former first lady Pat Nixon donned a bright red knee-length coat when she accompanied husband Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China in 1972.
美国前第一夫人帕特·尼克松(Pat Nixon)1972年陪同丈夫理查德·尼克松(Richard Nixon)进行历史性访华时，她穿的是一件鲜艳的红色及膝大衣。
More than 40 years later, Andrea Catsimatidis, the buxom wife of Nixon’s grandson Christopher Nixon Cox, also wore red─a racy crimson number on a Beijing walkabout Friday.
40多年过后，尼克松的外孙克里斯托弗·尼克松·考克斯(Christopher Nixon Cox)携夫人卡齐马蒂迪斯(Andrea Catsimatidis)访问中国。上周五，身材姣好的卡齐马蒂迪斯身着深红色上衣在北京四处游览。
Photos of the striking 23 year-old who is visiting China with her husband to commemorate the elder Nixon’s 100th birthday ─ have appeared all over Chinese media, including on the front page of the state-owned China Daily, generating buzz among Chinese social media users and turning Ms. Catsimatidis into somewhat of an Internet sensation.
容貌出众、年仅23岁的卡齐马蒂迪斯的照片登上了中国各大媒体的版面，其中包括官方媒体《中国日报》(China Daily)的头版。同时也引来中国社交媒体用户的一片议论，卡齐马蒂迪斯无意间在中国走红网络。卡齐马蒂迪斯此次陪同丈夫来华是为了纪念尼克松总统百岁诞辰。
Mr. Cox, 34, is bemused about the buzz, but hasn’t come to grips fully with it yet. “Maybe I should bone up on my Chinese to know what they are saying,” he said in a telephone interview from the eastern city of Hangzhou.
中国网民的议论令今年34岁的考克斯感到困惑，他尚未完全理解中国网民在说些什么。在中国东部城市杭州接受记者电话采访时他说，或许我应该抓紧学习中文，好搞清楚他们在说些什么。
Perhaps not. While one user of the Twitter-like microblogging service Sina Weibo suggested the duo looked like the bride and groom at their own wedding, others were less restrained. “I admit my mind is in the gutter,” wrote one microblogger. “The first time I looked, all I saw was…”
或许不用。虽然一位新浪微博用户表示两人看上去就像婚礼上的新郎新娘，其它用户就没有这么含蓄了。一位微博用户写道，我承认我的想法有点脏，可是第一次看到照片时，我心里想的全是……
The couple have frequently come under public scrutiny in the U.S. Ms. Catsimatidis is the daughter of Gristedes supermarket chain owner John Catsimatidis. They met in 2008 and married in 2011.
这对夫妻在美国也经常受到公众关注。卡齐马蒂迪斯是连锁超市Gristedes所有人约翰·卡齐马蒂迪斯(John Catsimatidis)的女儿。两人于2008年相识，2011年结婚。
Mr. Cox said the couple is not fazed by reactions in China, and says his wife is enjoying this, her second visit, to the country. “She loves Beijing. People have been very warm and hospitable to her,” he said. “We’re all ambassadors for the U.S.”
考克斯说，中国民众的反应并没有令他们难堪。他说他妻子对第二次中国之行非常满意。他说，她喜欢北京，这里的人热情好客，我们都是美国的“大使”。
Mr. Cox also said the excitement around his wife hadn’t detracted from the key finding of his trip: that China increasingly wants to engage with the U.S.
考克斯也表示，外界因他妻子产生的兴奋并没有令他此行一项重要发现的价值降低：中国日益希望同美国接触。
As evidence, he points to the welcome he has received from high-level officials, including a banquet for around 175 people at the Great Hall of the People, where he met with former foreign minister and State Councilor Yang Jiechi.
他说自己受到中国高级官员的欢迎就是一个证据，其中包括在人民大会堂举行的约有175人参加的宴会。在宴会上他见到了前外交部长、国务委员杨洁篪。
Mr. Cox believes the new government led by Xi Jinping wants to take relations with Washington to new heights. “This is part of China’s natural progress to grow on the world stage as an ascending power,” he said. “It’s encouraging.”
考克斯相信习近平领导的新一届政府希望将中美关系推向新的高度。他说这是中国作为不断崛起的大国在世界舞台上自然成长的组成部分，这令人鼓舞。
Mr. Cox, who has attended many Chinese banquets in the past he’s visited Beijing around 15 times so far─was expecting copious toasts. But President Xi’s antigraft touch was evident in the banquet’s relative absence of alcohol, he noted.
考克斯迄今到过北京约15次，也参加过多次中式宴会。他原本以为此次宴会上也会有很多人向他祝酒。但他说，习近平主席的反腐倡议显然很有效果，此次宴会提供的酒水相对较少。
“In honor of my grandfather they brought out Moutai,” he said. “The toast was important but they did not emphasize drinking.”
他说，为了纪念我的祖父，他们拿出了茅台；敬酒是很重要，但他们并没有强调饮酒。
Former President Nixon was fascinated by Moutai a throat-searing grain alcohol that bills itself as China’s national liquor ─ and reportedly went against aides’ advice by partaking in rounds of toasting, including with then Premier Zhou Enlai.
美国前总统尼克松非常喜欢茅台。据报道他曾不顾助手阻拦执意多次向中方官员祝酒，其中包括时任中国总理的周恩来。茅台是用粮食酿成的烈酒，被称作中国的国酒。
Mr. and Mrs. Cox’s trip is organized by the Nixon Foundation and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. After stops in Beijing and Hangzhou, they and an accompanying delegation of around 40 people will visit Shanghai.
考克斯夫妇此行由尼克松基金会(Nixon Foundation)和中国人民对外友好协会组织。在北京和杭州停留之后，他们和一个约40人的代表团还将访问上海。
Mr. Cox, a partner at consultancy and investment advisory firm OC Global Partners, LLC, finished third in the 2010 Republican primary for the New York’s 1st congressional district.
考克斯是咨询和投资顾问公司OC Global Partners, LLC的合伙人，曾在2010年参加纽约第一国会选区的共和党初选，最终排在第三位。
On whether he will run for political office in the future, Mr. Cox said “there might be something down the road.”
在谈到未来是否还会竞选政界职位时，考克斯说，有这种可能。
International trips, such as this week’s visit to China, and another to Africa last summer with former President Bill Clinton, were helpful in that they offered into insights into foreign policy and governing, he said.
他说，国际旅行，比如这周访问中国，以及去年夏天和美国前总统克林顿(Bill Clinton)访问非洲对他很有帮助，因为这能让他更深刻地领悟外交政策和执政理念。
To that, we might add protocol, too.
除此之外，或许还可以加上外交辞令吧。
