倫敦迎來首位穆斯林市長 來自工薪階層!

After a bitter and bruising race, the Labour Party's Sadiq Khan won London's mayoral race and made history as the first Muslim elected to lead a major Western capital city.

經過艱苦激烈的競選之後，英國工黨候選人薩迪克·汗贏得了倫敦市長大選，並且成爲歷史上第一位被選爲西方主要國家的首都領導人的穆斯林。

The 45-year-old, a former human rights lawyer and an opposition Labor lawmaker, swept into City Hall with 57% of the vote.

這位45歲的勝利者曾是一名人權律師、反對黨工黨議員，最終他以57%的得票率入主倫敦市政廳，

At a time when Islam is seen by many in the West as politically toxic, Khan embraced it to winning effect.

在一段時間裏，許多西方國家都將伊斯蘭教視作政治上的毒藥，但是薩迪克·汗則將這種想法轉化爲了正能量。

The son of a bus driver and a seamstress who emigrated from Pakistan in the 1960s, he grew up in public housing in the south London district of Tooting.

薩迪克·汗的父親是汽車司機，母親是裁縫，上世紀60年代，他們從巴基斯坦移民到英國。薩迪克·汗在倫敦南部圖庭區的一個政府廉租房裏長大。

His modest background plays well in a city that is proud of its diversity and loves a self-made success story.

在倫敦這座以多樣性爲傲，且崇尚通過自我奮鬥取得成功的城市，薩迪克·汗的平凡背景備受青睞。

The London mayor has fewer powers than his New York peer (London boroughs play a bigger role), but Khan will set overall strategy for a city that is critical to the U.K. economy and which plays a central role in global finance.

倫敦市長比起他的紐約同行來說，只有很少的一部分權力，倫敦各行政區纔是起重要作用的。但是薩迪克·汗將制定一個對英國經濟至關重要的城市總體戰略，並使該戰略在全球金融中起主導作用。

It's also facing major challenges: a housing bubble, overcrowded and expensive transport networks and a growing gap between rich and poor. A vote by the U.K. to leave the European Union later this year could hurt its economy.

此外，英國還將面臨許多主要挑戰：房地產泡沫、擁擠又昂貴的交通網絡，越來越大的貧富差距。而今年晚些時候進行的關於離開歐盟的投票也可能會傷害到英國的經濟。