NBC晚间新闻 特蕾莎·梅与欧洲领导人形成对峙

Angry and humiliated¹, Prime Minister Theresa May confronting European leaders after failing to win a deal she can sell at home. A brexit deal to take Britain out of Europe. The deal breaker is here in Ireland. What will be the new land border between the UK and European Union. Once it was a battleground until peace in Northern Ireland made it open and free. The violence here claimed three and a half thousand lives and there is a real fear here that a chaotic² brexit from the European Union could rekindle³ conflict. They are afraid here of a so called hard border, militarized by Britain with checkpoints.

You put up physical infrastructure⁴ that people can protest at, or god forbid somebody can attack. The genie⁵ gets out of the bottle very quick. the genie of violence. Yes. The border here is invisible. I'm not crossing from Ireland into the UK, easy. And that's the way people here want it to stay. Today I already across the border maybe five times. You've been across five times today? Yeah. And that's perfectly⁶ normal? Perfectly normal. Reimposing it would be tough. This churches in the UK, the graveyards⁷ in Ireland. In one border village where dead gunmen are memorialized, a threat if Britain forces a hard border. I would say let's go back to war. For now though brexit just means one thing here. It's an a mess, it's just totally a mess. A mess from here to Britain and it's beleaguered⁸ Prime Minister.

英国首相特蕾莎·梅没能使本国议会通过脱欧协议，愤怒和感到丢脸的她现在与欧洲领导们形成了对峙。协议没能通过的问题出在有关爱尔兰的条款，爱尔兰将成为新的英国和欧洲的陆地边界。爱尔兰曾是一个战乱之地，直到北爱尔兰取得的和平使它变得开放、自由。爱尔兰的暴力事件曾夺去了3500人的生命，而且令人真正令人担心的是，混乱的英国退欧可能重新引发冲突。在这里，他们害怕所谓的硬边界，即英国用检查站军事化的边界。你建立了人们可以抗议的实体基础设施，或者宣称上帝禁止人们攻击。精灵很快就会从瓶子里出来了。暴力的精灵？是的。这里的边界是不可见的。我不会从爱尔兰穿越到英国，很容易。这就是这里的人们想要的。今天我已经越过边境大概五次了。你今天来过五次了?是的。这很正常吗?很正常的。再把军事化的边界强加于人将是困难的。这是英国的教堂，爱尔兰的墓地。在一个边境村庄，人们纪念着死去的枪手，如果英国强行建立硬边界，这将构成一个威胁。我想说，让我们回到战争。现在，爱尔兰人对脱欧协议只有一个看法。糟糕的协议，十分糟糕。从爱尔兰到英国一片混乱，首相特蕾莎·梅身陷围困。

1 humiliated   

感到羞愧的

参考例句：

• Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present. 子女在客人面前举止失当，父母也失体面。
• He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated. 他感到羞耻，丢尽了面子。

2 chaotic   

adj.混沌的，一片混乱的，一团糟的

参考例句：

• Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
• The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。

3 rekindle   

v.使再振作；再点火

参考例句：

• Nothing could rekindle her extinct passion.她激情已逝,无从心回意转。
• Is there anything could rekindle his extinct passion?有什么事情可重燃他逝去的热情呢？

4 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

5 genie   

n.妖怪，神怪

参考例句：

• Now the genie of his darkest and weakest side was speaking.他心灵中最阴暗最软弱的部分有一个精灵在说话。
• He had to turn to the Genie of the Ring for help.他不得不向戒指神求助。

6 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

7 graveyards   

墓地( graveyard的名词复数 )； 垃圾场； 废物堆积处； 收容所

参考例句：

• He takes a macabre interest in graveyards. 他那么留意墓地，令人毛骨悚然。
• "And northward there lie, in five graveyards, Calm forever under dewy green grass," 五陵北原上，万古青蒙蒙。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学

8 beleaguered   

adj.受到围困[围攻]的；包围的v.围攻( beleaguer的过去式和过去分词)；困扰；骚扰

参考例句：

• The beleaguered party leader was forced to resign. 那位饱受指责的政党领导人被迫辞职。
• We are beleaguered by problems. 我们被许多困难所困扰。 来自《简明英汉词典》