UK chancellor¹ George Osborne has formally nominated Christine Lagarde to serve a second five-year term as managing director of the International Monetary² Fund, in an early move designed to create unstoppable momentum³ behind her.

英国财政大臣乔治攠斯本(George Osborne)正式提名克里斯蒂娜拉加德(Christine Lagarde)为国际货币基金组织(IMF)执行总裁的候选人，继续为期5年的第二个任期。他早早行动，是为了维护拉加德给IMF带来的不可阻挡的势头。

The former French finance minister, who has indicated that she would like to stay on at the IMF, has been praised for building its public stature⁴, advancing reforms to give China and other emerging economies a greater voice, and pushing the fund into discussions on topics such as inequality and climate change.

拉加德曾任法国财政部长，她已表示自己希望继续执掌IMF。她受到了外界的赞扬，因为她巩固了IMF的公众形象，推动了给予中国等发展中经济体更大发言权的改革，并推动IMF加入了有关不平等和气候变化等议题的讨论。

The nomination⁵ by Mr Osborne, which came at a minute past midnight in Washington on Thursday, is aimed at building unstoppable momentum behind Ms Lagarde even though she faces a possible criminal trial in France this year over her role in a 2008 payment to businessman Bernard Tapie.

美国华盛顿时间周四午夜刚过一分钟，奥斯本便提名拉加德为候选人，此举旨在继续发挥拉加德给IMF带来的不可阻挡的势头，尽管由于在2008年参与向商人伯纳德吠皮(Bernard Tapie)支付款项，导致她今年可能在法国出庭受审。

But her biggest political bet has been championing the case of China over the past year as it sought to have the renminbi included in the elite⁶ basket of reserve currencies used to value the IMF’s own de facto currency, the special drawing rights.

拉加德的最大政治赌注是，在过去一年里，在中国寻求把人民币纳入IMF储备货币篮子时，对中国予以了支持。

With that move, which garnered⁷ the support of the US and other shareholders⁸ at the end of November, Ms Lagarde seems likely to have won the support of Beijing for a second term and caused a potential split among emerging members of the IMF should another candidate come forward.

正因为此举——在去年11月底得到了美国和其他股东国的支持——拉加德在争取第二任期时看来已取得了中国的支持，如果出现另一位候选人的话，将可能在IMF的新兴经济体成员之间造成意见分歧。

However, the decision to bring the renminbi into the fold has also opened the IMF up to potential criticism that it has been too easy on China, particularly after the turmoil⁹ in Chinese currency and other markets.

然而，将人民币纳入IMF储备货币篮子也使IMF容易遭到批评：IMF对中国太过宽容了，尤其是在中国的汇率和其他市场发生动荡之后。