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The U.S. Senate yesterday confirmed veteran diplomat Nicholas Burns as ambassador to China,
美国参议院昨日批准资深外交官尼古拉斯·伯恩斯出任美国驻华大使，
filling a position that has been vacant for more than a year.
填补了该职位一年多以来的空缺。
65-year-old Burns is currently an international relations professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
今年65岁的伯恩斯，目前是哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院国际关系教授。
He has previously held senior positions in both Democratic and Republican administrations during his 27 years of government service.
此前他曾在美国政府任职27年，在民主党和共和党政府中均担任要职。
He also served as U.S. ambassador to Greece and ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
此外，他还曾担任美国驻希腊大使、美国驻北大西洋公约组织大使。
During Burns time as the Under Secretary of State from 2005 to 2008,
伯恩斯在2005年至2008年担任美国副国务卿期间，
he worked with the Chinese government on various issues, including Afghanistan, Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
曾就阿富汗、伊朗、朝鲜等各种问题上与中国政府有过合作。
