They are right, in part: Obama does not want to be seen as the ringmaster.

他们对了，因为一方面奥巴马不愿意被当作主要的负责人！

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On a fine afternoon at the Texas State Fair, a ringmaster encouraged a gaggle of children to flap their arms like butterfly wings.

在一个晴朗的下午，德州博览会上的一个表演者让一群孩子像蝴蝶一样挥动双臂。

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The nameless old ringmaster of the place, referred to only as Control, was privately convinced that one of his senior figures was a Soviet-run double agent or, in Circus patois, a mole.

NEWYORKER: I Spy

The lack of a ringmaster means decisions about the Dome's contents - such as the gender of the enormous figure that will dominate the body zone - are currently taken on what the Chief Executive of the New Millennium Experience Company, Jenny Page, told Panorama was a 'corporate basis'.

BBC: Panorama - Dome!

Trainor was in the center of it all as ringmaster and head clown.

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