The other six finalists for "Person of the Year"
今年时代人物的另外六位候选者

1. Steve Jobs
Jobs's extradinary and influenced our lives in all kinds of way.

2. Barack Obama
Not enough, could be the person of every year, but not this year.

3. Usain Bolt
Great runner, inspirational figure and inspired a lot of people.

4. Nancy Pelosi
the Strongest speaker of the House, first woman speaker of the House who led health care legislation.

5. Stanley McChrystal
the prime move behind the change of Afghanistan strategy who's going to be influencing the US for years to come.

6. The Chinese workers
an increasingly influential group

Time goes to......
最终当选本年度时代人物的是......

Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Ben Bernanke is the most powerful, least understood government force shaping our lives. It's a throwback cover. It's like a Person of the Year cover from the 1940's or 50's. It's a great, great story by our senior correspondent Michael Grunwald. And it's basically about he is influencing how the economy operates. Had it not been some of the actions he has taken--and he's the first to admit; he didn't do everything right--the country and perhaps the world would have fallen way past recession into a depression.

Ben Bernanke was the great scholar of the Depression, and he saw what looked like another depression coming and he decided he would do whatever it takes to forestall that. And basically I think he did. It could have been a lot worse; there were things he could have done better. One of his responsibilities is to put full employment in society and he hasn't really stepped up on that. But basically in terms of influence and how the economy went this year, Bernanke was the guy.

Ben Bernanke has been criticised from left to right, from Liberals and Conservatives, for being King Ben or running the unelected fourth branch of government. He's a controversial figure. And he's a Republican appointed by a Democratic president; it's the Democrats of the committee that are going to vote to confirm. It's a really interesting combination of factors.