(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
The Day After No Deal
无协议脱欧后的第一天
This account of the first 24 hours of a no-deal Brexit is based on interviews, government documents, and academic research.
这份无协议脱欧后第一天的记录基于访谈、政府文件和学术研究 。
The people described are real, as are their views on Brexit.
人们的描述都真实可信,他们对脱欧的看法一样也是真实的 。
Dialogue is real and faithfully rendered from actual interactions but projected into the near future.
对话内容真实,忠实地反应出实际的互动过程,但映射向不久的将来 。
Brexit might not play out this way. Prime Minister Boris Johnson could reach a deal with the European Union.
英国脱欧可能不会以这种方式发挥作用,首相鲍里斯·约翰逊(Boris Johnson)可能与欧盟达成协议 。
Parliament's attempts to block a no-deal departure could succeed or delay the inevitable.
议会试图阻止无协议脱欧的努力可能成功,或推迟这件不可避免将要发生的事情 。
Johnson could be booted from office. We won't know until we know.
约翰逊可能会被免职 。但我们目前都无从知晓 。
11 p.m., Oct. 31, Westminster, London
10月31日晚11点,伦敦威斯敏斯特
The digital Brexit countdown clock in Boris Johnson's office at No. 10 Downing St. reads 00 Days, 00:00:00 in red digits. The U.K. has left the EU.
在唐宁街10号,鲍里斯·约翰逊办公室的数字脱欧倒计时时钟上,红色的数字显示出00天00点00分 。英国已经脱离欧盟 。
Even after an astonishing Supreme Court ruling in September that he illegally suspended Parliament,
即使在九月最高法院对他非法暂停议会之后做出了惊人的裁定,
the prime minister ignored a law forcing him to ask the EU for a delay and delivered Brexit anyway.
但首相对于强迫他要求欧盟延迟并实施脱欧这项法律予以忽视 。
His final pitch to extract concessions at an Oct. 17 summit ended in failure, leaving no alternative: It had to be no-deal.
他在10月17日的峰会上做出让步的最后一次努力以失败告终,这让英国别无选择:只能是无协议脱欧 。
He said it during his leadership campaign, and he meant it—the country would leave the EU on schedule, "do or die."
他在领导竞选期间说了这番话,他是认真的,英国将如期脱离欧盟,“脱欧或坐以待毙” 。
As the clock strikes zero, the prime minister isn't in his office.
当时钟敲过零时,首相不在他的办公室 。
Instead, he's at 70 Whitehall, ensconced in a cabinet office briefing room (or Cobra), the British government's nerve center during emergencies.
而是在70号的英国政府白厅,在内阁办事处的情报室(也叫眼镜蛇紧急计划委员会),这是英国政府处于紧急情况下的中心部门 。
Operation Yellowhammer, the code name for the no-deal Brexit contingency plan, is in full swing.
黄鹀行动计划(Operation Yellowhammer)是无协议脱欧应急计划的代号,该计划正在紧锣密鼓地进行着 。
A deal would've given the U.K. a grace period to prepare for life outside the EU.
该协议将给与英国一个宽限期,让其为脱离欧盟之后的生活做好准备 。
Instead, the immediate rupture has left the country alone on the world stage for the first time since the early 1970s.
而这瞬间的破裂让英国自20世纪70年代初以来,第一次独立站在世界舞台之上 。
It's gone from being the gateway to Europe to an isolated nation stripped of major trading relationships.
它从一个通往欧洲的门户,变成失去主要贸易关系的孤立国家 。
重点讲解
1.reach a deal 达成协议;成交
It is not hard to see why it has proved so hard to reach a deal.
不难理解为何达成协议如此艰难
2.on schedule 准时;按预定时间
The train arrived on schedule.
火车准时到达
3.in full swing 正在全力进行;全面展开
Spring ploughing is in full swing.
春耕闹得正欢
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