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Croatia’s newly elected president has run into a problem -- how to accept thousands of new friends on Facebook.

克羅埃西亞的新當選總統已遭遇一項難題─如何接受社交網站「臉書」上的數千名新朋友（的交友邀請）。

The issue seems to underscore Ivo Josipovic’s image of a new statesman for a new era, who should oversee the final stage of Zagreb’s accession talks with the European Union this year, and lead the former Yugoslav republic into the bloc in 2012.

此議題似乎凸顯伊佛．喬西波維奇的新時代新政治家的形象，他將監督今年札格拉布當局與歐盟（針對克羅埃西亞加入歐盟）入會談判的最後階段，以及帶領這個前南斯拉夫共和國在2012年加入歐盟。

"I have 5,000 friends, which is the maximum allowed on Facebook. I also have another 7,000 waiting so I don’t know how we’ll work that out," the silver-haired, bespectacled law expert and classical music composer told state radio.

「我有5000個朋友，這是臉書所允許的（朋友數量）上限。我還有另外7000個人等候（成為我的朋友），所以我們不知道該怎麼辦，」這名銀髮、戴眼鏡的法律專家與古典音樂作曲家告訴國營電台。

Josipovic, relatively inexperienced in high politics but with a career untainted by scandal, won 60 percent of the votes, beating Zagreb mayor Milan Bandic, who was supported by the church and the conservatives.

相當缺乏重大政治歷練、但生涯也未沾染醜聞的喬西波維奇，在選戰中贏得6成選票，擊敗獲得教會以及保守派支持的札格拉布市長米蘭．班迪奇。

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underscore：動詞／名詞，在下面劃線（underline）；強調（emphasize）。例句：Recent tensions in Malaysia underscore the need not to take racial and religious harmony for granted, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said.（新加坡副總理兼內政部長黃根成表示，馬來西亞近日的緊張情勢，凸顯出有必要不把種族與宗教和諧視為理所當然。）

maximum：名詞，最大值，最大量，最大極限。相反詞，minimum，名詞，最小值，最小量，最小限度。

work something out或work out something：慣用語，找出解決某事的辦法。例句：Don’t worry, we can work it out.（別擔心，我們可以想辦法解決這事。）