奥巴马总统在华盛顿租下一栋豪宅 以供卸任后居住

President Obama and his family will move into an 8,200-square-foot (790sqm), red-brick home about two miles (3.2km) from his current address after he leaves office in January.

在明年一月卸任后，奥巴马总统及其家人将搬到一幢占地8200平方英尺（约合790平米）、由红砖建造的新家里，该处距白宫2英里（约合3.2公里）。

The Obama family still own a home in Chicago, however, the president has said he would remain in Washington until his 14-year-old daughter, Sasha, graduates from the Sidwell Friends School in 2018.

但是，奥巴马一家人还在芝加哥拥有一套房子。总统此前曾表示，自己将继续待在华盛顿，直到2018年其14岁大的女儿--莎夏--从西德维尔友谊中学毕业。

Mr Obama's new home, which is valued around $6m, is near Embassy Row in the Kalorama section of the district. The president will count French ambassador Gerard Araud, the embassy of Oman and the European Union ambassador to the US as his new neighbours.

据悉，奥巴马的新家价值高达600万美元，位于华盛顿科络拉玛的使馆区附近。在挑选新邻居方面，奥巴马将会在法国大使杰勒德·阿劳德、阿曼大使和欧盟驻美国大使之间权衡。

Bart Gordon, a former Democratic congressman from Tennessee, also lives next door to the soon-to-be Obama residence.

来自田纳西州的前民主党议员戈登也住在奥巴马新家的隔壁。

"I think it's a brilliant stroke for them to move here, they're surrounded by a lot of people who are still politically active," said Susan Harreld, a Kalorama resident who lives nearby. "It's a very family-oriented neighbourhood, which is great for Sasha, but also a very private neighbourhood."

科络拉玛附近一位居民苏珊·哈罗德表示：“我认为他们（奥巴马一家）搬到这里来是一个很明智的决定。在他们的邻居里，很多人仍然在政坛上十分活跃。这是一个以家庭为主的街区，这对莎夏来说很好。但同时，这也是一个非常私人的街区。”

Mr Obama will rent the home, which is unoccupied, from Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary and senior adviser to Bill Clinton. Mr Lockhart and his wife, Giovanna Gray Lockhart, moved to New York City after he became the vice president of communications for the National Football League.

这幢房屋目前尚无人居住，而奥巴马将从比尔·克林顿的前任新闻秘书、高级顾问乔·洛克哈特手中租下他的新家。在担任美国国家橄榄球联盟通信副总裁之后，洛克哈特和他的妻子--乔瓦娜·格雷·洛克哈特--一起搬到了纽约。

But Mr Obama will not be the first president to reside in the prominent community. Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Warren Harding, Franklin D Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover also called Kalorama home at different points in their lives.

不过奥巴马并不是首位在这个著名街区里居住的美国总统。许多美国总统都曾在科络拉玛的各地段拥有居所，比如伍德罗·威尔逊、威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱、沃伦·哈定、富兰克林·罗斯福和赫伯特·胡佛。