《大西洋月刊》英国是如何沦落到和密西西比一样穷的? [C1]
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 0:05 | You're listening to How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi, a case study and self-sabotage | 你们在听英国如何像密西西比那样贫穷 案例研究和自我破坏 |
| 0:12 | written by Idris Kalloun, published in the July 2026 issue of The Atlantic, read by | 由Idris Kalloun撰写,发表在2026年7月一期《大西洋》上, |
| 0:18 | Zach Rosen,由Hark Audio制作,一个播客配音应用软件. | |
| 0:23 | You can find this and other narrated Atlantic articles along with curated podcast moments | 你可以找到这篇 和其他叙事的大西洋文章 与曲解的播客瞬间 |
| 0:28 | on the Hark Audio app. | 在哈克音频应用程序。 |
| 0:31 | Who broke Britain? | 谁毁了英国? |
| 0:33 | Someone or something must have. | 一定有个人 |
| 0:34 | The past 18 years, enough time for a whole lost generation to be born and brought up, | 在过去的18年里, 有足够的时间 整个失去的一代 出生和长大, |
| 0:40 | have yielded nothing but stagnation and mass disillusionment. | 只能造成停滞和大规模幻灭。 |
| 0:44 | In 2007, before the global financial crisis, Britain was at its post-imperial zenith. | 2007年,全球金融危机爆发前,英国处于帝国时代后期. |
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| 1 | You're listening to How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi, a case study and self-sabotage | 你们在听英国如何像密西西比那样贫穷 案例研究和自我破坏 |
| 2 | written by Idris Kalloun, published in the July 2026 issue of The Atlantic, read by | 由Idris Kalloun撰写,发表在2026年7月一期《大西洋》上, |
| 3 | Zach Rosen,由Hark Audio制作,一个播客配音应用软件. | |
| 4 | You can find this and other narrated Atlantic articles along with curated podcast moments | 你可以找到这篇 和其他叙事的大西洋文章 与曲解的播客瞬间 |
| 5 | on the Hark Audio app. | 在哈克音频应用程序。 |
| 6 | Who broke Britain? | 谁毁了英国? |
| 7 | Someone or something must have. | 一定有个人 |
| 8 | The past 18 years, enough time for a whole lost generation to be born and brought up, | 在过去的18年里, 有足够的时间 整个失去的一代 出生和长大, |
| 9 | have yielded nothing but stagnation and mass disillusionment. | 只能造成停滞和大规模幻灭。 |
| 10 | In 2007, before the global financial crisis, Britain was at its post-imperial zenith. | 2007年,全球金融危机爆发前,英国处于帝国时代后期. |
| 11 | Median household income had just surpassed that of Germany. | 中等家庭收入刚刚超过德国。 |
| 12 | A pound was worth more than $2, and London was arguably displacing New York as the center | 一英镑价值超过两美元 伦敦可能取代纽约成为中心 |
| 13 | of international banking. | 国际银行业务。 |
| 14 | But since then, Britain has been left behind. | 但从此英国被抛在后面. |
| 15 | The country's output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi, America's | 现在全国人均产出 仅略高于美国密西西比州 |
| 16 | poorest state, and that slight lead is only achieved thanks to London. | 最贫穷的州,而这种微弱的领先只能归功于伦敦. |
| 17 | Outside the capital, in places where tourists do not visit, living standards fall well below | 在首都以外,在游客不访问的地方,生活水平远远低于 |
| 18 | Mississippi's. | 密西西比州 密西西比州 |
| 19 | Brits visiting the United States find that their currency has depreciated to the point | 来美国访问的英国人发现他们的货币贬值到现在 |
| 20 | where the pound today buys only about $1.35. | 今天的英镑只有1.35美元 |
| 21 | British wages have lagged well behind those in the U.S., and also those in Germany, France, | 英国的工资远远落后于美国,德国,法国, |
| 22 | the Netherlands, Denmark. | 荷兰、丹麦。 |
| 23 | Once you account for inflation, they've barely grown at all. | 一旦你计算通货膨胀, 他们几乎没有增长。 |
| 24 | Within the next decade, the typical poll will have a standard of living equal to the typical | 在未来十年里,典型的民意调查将具有与典型的生活水平相等的生活水平。 |
| 25 | Brit, if current trends continue. | Brit 如果目前的趋势继续下去的话 |
| 26 | One generation ago, Britain was a major global power. | 一代人前,英国是全球大国. |
| 27 | Today, it is a middling one, gripped by sclerosis. | 今天,它是一个 middle 之一, 抓住硬化症。 |
| 28 | Taxation is at the highest level since World War II, yet public services have deteriorated. | 税收处于二战以来的最高水平,然而公共服务却有所恶化. |
| 29 | The National Health Service, the celebrated pillar of the British cradle-to-grave welfare | 国家卫生服务,英国摇篮至坟墓福利的著名支柱 |
| 30 | state, has a backlog of six million patients, almost a tenth of the population, waiting | 大约占人口的十分之一 |
| 31 | for treatment. | 治疗。 |
| 32 | The Health Service now has to spend more money settling maternity malpractice claims than | 保健服务机构现在需要花费更多的钱来解决产妇渎职索赔,而不是 |
| 33 | it does on actually providing maternity care. | 它实际上提供产妇护理。 |
| 34 | Many Brits can neither obtain an appointment with a publicly funded dentist, nor afford | 许多英国人既无法获得公共资助的牙医的预约,也负担不起 |
| 35 | a private one. | 一个私人的。 |
| 36 | In a 2023 survey, one in ten reported doing DIY dental work, in extreme cases, extracting | 在2023年的一项调查中,每10人中就有1人报告说从事DIY牙科工作,在极端情况下,提取 |
| 37 | their own teeth or gluing broken crowns back together. | 他们自己的牙齿或者擦伤的王冠 一起回来。 |
| 38 | Incomes can be shockingly low. | 收入可能非常低。 |
| 39 | Junior doctors recently went on strike for the 15th time in three years over their salaries, | 初级医生最近罢工 15次 在三年中,他们的工资, |
| 40 | which start at just £38,800. | 一开始只有38,800英镑。 |
| 41 | The median salary for British civil servants is £35,680. | 英国公务员的中位工资为35,680英镑. |
| 42 | In April, amid the Iran conflict, the Daily Mail pounced on Prime Minister Keir Starmer | 在伊朗冲突期间, |
| 43 | for vacationing in Valencia, Spain, at what the tabloid described as a luxury hotel, costing | 在西班牙巴伦西亚度假 在小报上描述的豪华酒店 |
| 44 | £200 a night. | 每晚200英镑. |
| 45 | Some in Britain blame rotten luck, the 2008 financial crash, the coronavirus pandemic, | 一些英国人怪罪坏运气, 2008年金融崩溃, 日冕病毒大流行, |
| 46 | and energy crisis after Russia invaded Ukraine. | 以及俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后的能源危机。 |
| 47 | But other countries endured these challenges, too. | 但其他国家也面临着这些挑战。 |
| 48 | What differentiated Britain was its self-sabotaging responses to these and other problems. | 区别于英国的是对这些问题和其他问题的自我破坏。 |
| 49 | Brexit is the most famous example, but hardly the only one. | 布雷克西特是最著名的例子,但几乎是唯一的例子. |
| 50 | Bad choices, beginning just after the financial crisis, begot worse ones. | 坏的选择,从金融危机之后开始, 就会有更糟糕的选择。 |
| 51 | As public disillusionment has grown, politicians have been rotated swiftly in and out of power, | 随着公众幻灭的增强 政客们迅速交替执政 |
| 52 | abruptly terminating whatever policies they have started. | 突然终止一切政策 |
| 53 | Six different prime ministers have governed since the 2010 general election. | 自2010年大选以来,有六位不同的总理执政。 |
| 54 | They do not seem to be getting more talented over time. | 随着时间的推移,他们似乎没有更多的才华。 |
| 55 | Less than two years after Starmer's Labour Party took power, his nat approval rating | 在斯塔默的工党掌权不到两年后 他的Nat批准评级 |
| 56 | has plunged to minus 42 points. | 已跌至负42分。 |
| 57 | He is widely expected to resign this year, and may have done so by the time you read this. | 人们广泛期望他今年辞职,也许你读到这个的时候已经辞职了. |
| 58 | The country's downward slide has been consistent in one respect. | 我国的下滑趋势在某一方面是一致的。 |
| 59 | As Britain has become more and more aware of its diminishment, it has retreated even | 随着英国越来越意识到它的衰减,它甚至退缩了 |
| 60 | more fully into a defensive crouch. | 更充分进入防御性蹲下。 |
| 61 | Politics have become zero-sum, descending into flights over who has robbed whom. | 政治已经变成零和, 下降为航班 谁抢谁。 |
| 62 | Suspicion has fallen, above all, on immigrants, whom both major parties have turned against. | 主要政党都反对移民。 |
| 63 | There is still an enduring stain of British exceptionalism, quieter and more understated | 英国特殊主义的污点依然存在 更安静更低调 |
| 64 | than the American version, which suggests that, by retreating inward, Britain can make | 比美国的版本,它暗示,通过向内撤退,英国可以制造 |
| 65 | itself great again. | 又来了 |
| 66 | Astonishingly, or perhaps predictably, it is growing stronger as the country's problems | 令人惊奇,或许可以预测的是,随着国家问题的发展,它越来越强大 |
| 67 | get worse. | 越来越糟糕。 |
| 68 | In fairness, the 2008 financial crisis hit Britain especially hard. | 公平而言,2008年的金融危机对英国的打击尤为沉重. |
| 69 | In the 1990s, both the Tories and Tony Blair's new Labour Party made the same bet. | 1990年代,托里和托尼·布莱尔的新工党都做出了同样的赌注. |
| 70 | Britain was to be a post-industrial, services-based economy anchored in finance. | 英国将成为一个建立在金融基础上的后工业型、基于服务业的经济。 |
| 71 | Tax receipts from a booming London would be redistributed to lagging regions in the old | 兴旺的伦敦的税收收入将重新分配到旧的落后地区。 |
| 72 | industrial heartland, helping to renew them. | 工业心脏地带, 帮助更新它们。 |
| 73 | Then came 2008, and London's financial industry cratered. | 随后来到2008年,伦敦的金融业陷入了困境. |
| 74 | But the government's actions during and after the crisis compounded the damage. | 但政府在危机期间和之后的行动加剧了损失。 |
| 75 | Rather than increase spending to revive depressed demand, as modern Keynesians would counsel, | 而不是像现代凯恩斯主义者建议的那样,增加开支以恢复低迷的需求, |
| 76 | the government, then led by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, opted to slash budgets | 当时由保守党总理戴维·卡梅伦领导的政府选择削减预算 |
| 77 | as revenue plunged. | 随着收入的下降。 |
| 78 | The theory was that fiscal discipline, cutting spending more sharply than Britain's peer | 理论是,财政纪律,削减开支比英国同行更尖锐 |
| 79 | countries, would inspire confidence and spur growth. | 将激发信心和刺激增长。 |
| 80 | At the time, deficits and debt were seen as immoral. | 当时,赤字和债务被认为是不道德的. |
| 81 | Unlike profligate Greece, Britain would manage its affairs prudently. | 与挥霍的希腊不同,英国会审慎地管理自己的事务. |
| 82 | The promised growth did not materialize, and austerity left scars that linger still. | 承诺的增长没有实现,紧缩留下的伤疤依然存在。 |
| 83 | Funding for day-to-day NHS operations was maintained, for instance, but only by cannibalizing | 例如,维持了对日常国家保健服务业务的供资,但只能通过吞噬 |
| 84 | the capital budget. | 首都预算。 |
| 85 | A 2024 government report found that, as a result of austerity, Britain has, quote, crumbling | 一篇2024年的政府报告发现,由于紧缩, 英国,引文: |
| 86 | buildings, mental health patients being accommodated in Victoria-era cells, infested with vermin, | 住在维多利亚时代的牢房里 患有害虫 |
| 87 | with 17 men sharing two showers, and parts of the NHS operating in decrepit port-a-cabins, | 17名男子共用两个淋浴池,部分国民保健制度在停机坪港口运作, |
| 88 | unquote. | 说吧 |
| 89 | After austerity cuts to welfare benefits took effect, the share of children who grew up | 紧缩削减福利后,长大儿童的比例 |
| 90 | in long-term poverty, meaning half their childhood or more, shot up from about 14% to 23%. | 在长期贫困中,也就是说,他们一半的童年或更长的时间,从14%上升到23%。 |
| 91 | Nutrition appeared to suffer, and doctors reported increased cases of diseases stemming | 营养似乎受到影响,医生报告说,疾病发病病例有所增加。 |
| 92 | from vitamin deficiencies such as rickets and scurvy. | 来自于维生素缺乏症,如脊髓灰质炎和 s。 |
| 93 | Local governments, called councils, saw their grants from the central government fall by | 地方政府,称为理事会, 发现中央政府的拨款被 |
| 94 | 40% from 2010 to 2020. | 2010年至2020年占40%. |
| 95 | In 2023, Birmingham City Council, which is responsible for more than one million residents, | 2023年,伯明翰市议会负责100多万居民, |
| 96 | effectively declared bankruptcy. | 有效地宣布破产。 |
| 97 | One third of all English councils could do the same within five years. | 所有英格兰议会的三分之一可在五年内这样做。 |
| 98 | Austerity was felt most harshly by those who were already suffering after deindustrialization. | 那些在非工业化后已经遭受苦难的人感到最严厉的紧缩。 |
| 99 | The welfare state had partially compensated the losers from globalization. | 福利国家部分补偿了全球化的失败者。 |
| 100 | When it abruptly shrank because the masters of the universe had miscalculated, | 当它突然收缩 因为宇宙的主人们计算错了 |
| 101 | anger erupted upward at British elites and also outward at European migrants who were | 对英国精英和外向的欧洲移民们愤怒 |
| 102 | competing for jobs and public services. | 竞争就业和公共服务。 |
| 103 | It was because of this political pressure that Cameron made another fateful decision | 正是由于这种政治压力,卡梅伦作出了另一个命运的决定. |
| 104 | to hold the Brexit referendum in 2016. | 2016年举行布雷克西特公投. |
| 105 | This was a gambit. | 简直是一团糟 |
| 106 | Cameron expected the vote to fail. | 卡梅伦预计投票失败. |
| 107 | He did not want to leave the European Union, but he wanted to arrest the rise of figures | 他不想离开欧盟 但他想阻止数字上升 |
| 108 | such as Nigel Farage, the longtime gadfly of British politics who had been campaigning | 例如奈杰尔·法拉吉, 英国政治的长时期gadfly 谁一直在竞选。 |
| 109 | for withdrawal from the EU for decades. | 退出欧盟几十年。 |
| 110 | Left behind Britain, the places especially harmed by austerity cuts voted overwhelmingly | 被英国抛在身后 紧缩削减特别伤害的地方 以压倒多数投票 |
| 111 | to leave. | 离开。 |
| 112 | The morning after he lost the referendum, Cameron resigned, ushering in a period of | 卡梅伦在公投失败后的第二天早上辞职,迎来了一段时期 |
| 113 | political instability that has now lasted a decade and shows no sign of ending. | 政治不稳定已经持续了十年,没有结束的迹象。 |
| 114 | Settling the formal Brexit deal took almost four years of negotiations between Britain | 英国花了将近四年的谈判 才达成正式的布雷克西特协议 |
| 115 | and the EU. | 与欧盟。 |
| 116 | The resulting uncertainty took a toll on British businesses even then. | 由此造成的不确定性甚至给英国企业造成了损失。 |
| 117 | In 2018, one year before his ascension to Prime Minister Boris Johnson was asked by | 2018年,在他对总理鲍里斯·约翰逊的就职前一年,被问及: |
| 118 | a European diplomat about these adverse effects. | a 欧洲外交官,关于这些不利影响。 |
| 119 | He replied, quote, fuck business, unquote. | 他回答,引用,他妈的生意,不引用。 |
| 120 | And indeed, something like that happened. | 事实上,发生了类似的事情。 |
| 121 | A recent paper on the economic impact of Brexit by five economists calculated that Brexit | 五位经济学家最近发表的一篇关于布雷克西特的经济影响的文章 计算出布雷克西特 |
| 122 | caused business investment to drop by 12 to 18 percent, productivity and employment to | 造成商业投资下降12%至18%,生产力和就业下降 |
| 123 | decline by about three to four percent, and most striking, GDP per capita to fall by six | 人均国内生产总值下降约3-4%,最引人注目的是,人均国内生产总值下降6个百分点。 |
| 124 | to eight percent, twice as much as earlier estimates. | 达到8%,是先前估计的两倍。 |
| 125 | The harms weren't all immediately visible. | 伤害并不是一目了然 |
| 126 | As with austerity, they accumulated over time. | 与紧缩一样,它们也逐渐积累。 |
| 127 | Outside London, the consequences of almost two lost decades are unignorable. | 在伦敦以外,几乎损失了两个十年的后果是不可忽视的. |
| 128 | Stroke on Trent in the West Midlands, about 150 miles north of London, was once the ceramics | 在伦敦以北约150英里的西部中地的特伦特上 曾经是陶瓷厂 |
| 129 | capital of Britain and quite probably the world. | 英国的首都,很可能是世界 |
| 130 | It was geologically blessed by rich seams of both coal and clay. | 它在地质上受到丰富的煤和粘土缝合物的祝福。 |
| 131 | Its wares were transported by canal to Liverpool for export. | 其军械经运河运往利物浦出口. |
| 132 | The whole area became known as the potteries. | 整个地区被称为陶器区. |
| 133 | Stroke once held some 2,000 bottle kilns, huge bulbous structures in which crockery | 弦曾拥有约2000个瓶子窑,巨大的灯泡结构,其中有 cro |
| 134 | from companies such as Wedgwood were fired. | 韦奇伍德等公司被解雇了 |
| 135 | Today, only 47 remain. | 今天,只剩下47个。 |
| 136 | The industry employs perhaps 5,000 people, down from some 300,000 in 1984. | 该行业雇用了5 000人,比1984年的大约30万人有所减少。 |
| 137 | And because of Britain's extraordinary energy costs, this number is still declining. | 而由于英国的异常能源成本,这一数字仍在下降. |
| 138 | Depleting oil drilling in the North Sea and a failure to invest in alternative energy | 北海石油钻井耗竭和未投资替代能源 |
| 139 | sources have left the country reliant on imported energy, staggering consumers and industry alike. | 能源来源使该国依赖进口能源,消费者和工业都令人震惊。 |
| 140 | From 2004 to 2024, electricity costs for British businesses more than tripled even | 从2004年到2024年,英国企业的电费增加了两倍多 |
| 141 | after adjusting for inflation, and are now the highest in the world. | 在根据通货膨胀进行调整后,现在是世界上最高的。 |
| 142 | In March, I visited Middleport Pottery, the last remaining ceramics factory | 3月,我参观了波特里中港 剩下的最后一个陶瓷厂 |
| 143 | that has operated continuously since the Victorian era. | 从维多利亚时代起 一直运作着 |
| 144 | A charming elderly guide named Phil Knott showed me around, | 一个叫菲尔·诺特的迷人的老年导师带我四处走走 |
| 145 | pointing out the ceramics and crockery that the company supplies to the private residence | 指出公司向私人住宅供应的陶瓷和陶瓷 |
| 146 | of King Charles III. | 国王查理三世 |
| 147 | In most rooms we entered, he introduced me by saying, quote, | 在我们进入的大多数房间, 他介绍我说,引言, |
| 148 | this man here is from Washington to write an article about the ceramics industry, unquote. | 这个人来自华盛顿 写了一篇文章 关于陶瓷工业,未引用。 |
| 149 | Though the factory once employed some 400 workers, it now has only 18. | 虽然工厂曾经雇用了大约400名工人,但现在只有18名工人。 |
| 150 | Middleport uses smaller gas ovens today, but its last bottle kiln, | Middleport今天使用较小的燃气炉, 但是它的最后一个瓶窑, |
| 151 | there once were seven, still sits outside, a vestige of a bygone time. | 有一次是七, 仍然坐在外面, 留下的过去的时间。 |
| 152 | All along the kiln's exterior, where heat and smoke and ash once escaped, | 沿着窑的外部, 热和烟雾和灰烬一度逃脱, |
| 153 | small trees and plants have taken root in the dormant structure. | 小树和植物在休眠结构中扎根。 |
| 154 | The deindustrialization of Stoke began a long time ago. | 斯托克的去工业化始于很久以前. |
| 155 | In the 1980s, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ushered in her, quote, | 1980年代,总理玛格丽特·撒切尔 迎来了她,引用: |
| 156 | unquote, revolution, emphasizing privatization and breaking the trade unions. | 不言而喻,革命,强调私有化和打破工会. |
| 157 | This improved the country's fortunes, but not those of all its parts. | 这改善了国家的命运,但不是所有地方的财富。 |
| 158 | Thatcherism hit Stoke hard, causing closures of factories, steelworks, and mines. | 撒切尔主义对斯托克的打击很大,导致工厂,钢铁厂和矿山关闭. |
| 159 | Lisa Healings, who runs the charity volunteer action Stoke on Trent, | Lisa Healings, 主持慈善志愿者行动 斯托克在特伦特, |
| 160 | lived through that as a young girl. | 年轻时就经历过这些 |
| 161 | VAST works with a network of charities to provide food, job trading, and counseling, | VAST与慈善机构网络合作,提供食品、工作交易和咨询, |
| 162 | but the group is fighting economic gravity. | 但是这个团体正在对抗经济重力 |
| 163 | Quote, there's now a third generation almost coming through, unquote, | 引用,现在有第三代人 几乎通过,未引用, |
| 164 | Healings told me, whose, quote, parents were unemployed, | 治疗告诉我,谁的父母失业, |
| 165 | their grandparents were unemployed, and they don't see any future for themselves | 他们的祖父母失业了 他们自己看不到未来 |
| 166 | other than living on benefits and being unemployed, unquote. | 除了靠福利生活和失业之外,请不要引用。 |
| 167 | Austerity was particularly brutal to places like Stoke, | 紧缩对斯托克这样的地方特别残酷 |
| 168 | where a large share of the population was already dependent on government benefits. | 大部分人口已经依赖政府的福利。 |
| 169 | Two out of every five children in Stoke live in poverty, one of the highest rates in Britain, | 斯托克每5个孩子中就有2个生活在贫困中,是英国最高比率之一, |
| 170 | and in 2022, the city had one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the country. | 而在2022年,该市的婴儿死亡率位居全国前列. |
| 171 | Since the turn of this century, successive governments have tried | 自本世纪之交以来,历届政府都尝试过 |
| 172 | and mostly failed to correct basic problems. | 并且大多未能纠正基本问题。 |
| 173 | In 2003, John Prescott, Blair's Deputy Prime Minister, | 2003年,布莱尔的副总理约翰·普雷斯科特, |
| 174 | started a policy called Pathfinder, which aimed to demolish and replace worn-down housing | 推行了一项名为开拓者的政策,旨在拆除和替换破旧住房 |
| 175 | in post-industrial places such as Stoke. | 在后工业的地方,如斯托克。 |
| 176 | Cameron's government abruptly defunded in 2010, | 卡梅伦政府2010年突然解款. |
| 177 | leaving empty eyesore lots where demolition had finished, but building had not yet begun. | 在拆除完成后留下了空眼空间,但建筑尚未开始。 |
| 178 | In 2019, Johnson promised that a new economic revitalization plan called Leveling Up would, | 2019年,约翰逊承诺,一个新的经济振兴计划,名为Leveling Up将会, |
| 179 | quote, answer the plea of the forgotten people and the left behind towns, unquote. | 引用,回答被遗忘的人和左后方城镇的恳求,不引用. |
| 180 | But few specifics were forthcoming until three years later, | 但直到三年之后 几乎没有什么细节 |
| 181 | only months before Johnson resigned. | 就在约翰逊辞职前几个月 |
| 182 | The funding it provided was a pittance compared with the support withdrawn from local governments | 与从地方政府撤回的支助相比,基金提供的资金微不足道。 |
| 183 | under austerity. | 在紧缩之下。 |
| 184 | It is in places like Stoke where discontent with London and Brussels is highest. | 在斯托克等地,对伦敦和布鲁塞尔的不满程度最高。 |
| 185 | During the 2016 referendum, 69% of residents voted to leave the EU, | 在2016年公投中,69%的居民投票决定离开欧盟, |
| 186 | the highest share of any city in the country. | 占全国任何城市的最高份额。 |
| 187 | Afterward, Stoke was branded, quote, the capital of Brexit, unquote. | 之后,斯托克被打上烙印,引文,为布雷克西特的首府,未引文. |
| 188 | My train north from London was, like many, seriously delayed. | 我从伦敦往北的火车 和许多人一样 严重延误了 |
| 189 | In this case, because of a loose panel on a front car. | 在这种情况下,因为前车上有一个松散的面板. |
| 190 | Quote, hopefully it'll hold on until we get to Manchester, unquote, the conductor announced. | 引用,希望它能坚持到我们到达曼彻斯特, 未引用,指挥员宣布。 |
| 191 | This information left me, rather like the panel, flappable, | 这些信息留下了我, 相当像面板, 炫耀, |
| 192 | but it had no discernible effect on my fellow passengers. | 但是这对我的乘客没有明显影响 |
| 193 | Although Americans should generally not cast aspersions on the rail services of other countries, | 虽然美国人一般不应该对其他国家的铁路服务进行诽谤, |
| 194 | the episode was yet another reminder of Britain's degraded state. | 这集又一次提醒人们 英国的退化状态。 |
| 195 | Recent plans to transform the country have rested in no small part on High Speed 2, | 最近改革国家的计划主要靠高速2号。 |
| 196 | a super-fast rail line intended to connect London with Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester. | 一条超快的铁路线旨在连接伦敦与伯明翰,利兹和曼彻斯特. |
| 197 | But since HS2 was proposed in 2009, its costs have tripled to more than £100 billion. | 但自2009年提出HS2以来,其成本翻了三倍,达到1000多亿英镑. |
| 198 | It is the most expensive rail line in the world. | 这是世界上最昂贵的铁路线。 |
| 199 | A special structure to protect a rare bat species near the rail line in Buckinghamshire | 保护白金汉郡铁路线附近稀有蝙蝠物种的特殊结构 |
| 200 | required 8,000 permits and was built at a cost of £216 million. | 需要8 000份许可证,建造费用为2.16亿英镑。 |
| 201 | The most important sections of the proposed route have been lopped off. | 提议的路线最重要的部分已停用。 |
| 202 | The Rump line, going from Birmingham, Britain's second largest city, | 从英国第二大城市伯明翰出发 |
| 203 | to not quite central London, may be finished by 2040. | 可能2040年结束 |
| 204 | In Birmingham, a local named Gary Moynihan walked me from the city centre | 在伯明翰 一个叫Gary Moynihan的当地人 从市中心带我走 |
| 205 | to the benighted HS2 terminus. | 到夜 HS2 终点。 |
| 206 | Moynihan, a pleasant white-haired former lawyer with a dyspeptic ex-account, | 莫伊尼汉,一个愉快的白发前律师 和一个忧郁的前账户, |
| 207 | often focused on his hometown's troubles, was eager to show me what had gone wrong. | 经常关注家乡的麻烦 急于告诉我出了什么事 |
| 208 | He pointed out a large site called Smithfield, formerly the location of grocery wholesalers, | 他指出了一个叫做史密斯菲尔德的大遗址, 原为杂货批发商的所在地, |
| 209 | whose warehouses have been vacant for many years. | 他们的仓库已经空置多年 |
| 210 | We passed a few film studios along the canal, | 我们沿着运河经过几个电影制片厂 |
| 211 | some of the more promising businesses that have sprouted up in recent years. | 一些近年来兴起的更有希望的企业。 |
| 212 | Moynihan admitted that their existence poses some challenges to an oft-repeated remark of his, | Moynihan承认,他们的存在对他经常重复的言论提出了一些挑战。 |
| 213 | quote, I see nothing of merit in this city, unquote, | 引用,我看不出有什么价值 在这个城市,未引用, |
| 214 | but then redirected my attention to the gargantuan potholes in the road, gouged so deep that you | 后来我把注意力转移到路上的甘蔗坑里 挖得那么深,以至于你 |
| 215 | could see the Victorian-era cobblestones below, to the trash piled up in vacant lots, | 可以看到下面的维多利亚时代的鹅卵石, 到垃圾堆积的空地, |
| 216 | and to the discarded boxes for extra-large canisters of nitrous oxide, | 和弃置的一氧化二氮大罐箱, |
| 217 | which is routinely abused in Birmingham. | 在伯明翰经常受到虐待 |
| 218 | 为了到达Curzon街站的HS2终点站 我和Moynihan走在路上 | |
| 219 | of an attempted Birmingham metro rail extension, which has itself been beset by delays and cost | 伯明翰地铁扩建工程 本身就受到延误和成本的困扰 |
| 220 | overruns, a localised version of the HS2 debacle. | 超支,HS2崩溃的本地化版本. |
| 221 | I could see crawler cranes and excavators moving busily around, huge Y-shaped piers | 我可以看到爬行鹤和挖土机在繁忙的移动 巨大的Y形码头 |
| 222 | that will perhaps in a decade hoist the high-speed rail stood disconnected from each other. | 也许在十年后,高速铁路将相互中断。 |
| 223 | HS2 has been delayed for so long that two swiftly built towers near the terminus | HS2被延迟了这么久 以至于两座快速建造的塔楼 |
| 224 | now themselves look derelict and in need of demolition. | 现在自己看起来被抛弃了,需要拆除。 |
| 225 | Quote, if you're a developer, why would you invest here? | 引文 如果你是开发商 为什么在这里投资? |
| 226 | The only reason is HS2, and it's moribund, unquote, Moynihan said. | 唯一的原因是HS2,它已经枯萎,没有引文,莫伊尼汉说. |
| 227 | Building infrastructure, or much of anything else, has become all but impossible in the | 建设基础设施,或者其他任何东西, 已经变得几乎不可能 |
| 228 | built train line. | 建成列车线路. |
| 229 | Britain also hosts the world's most expensive and not yet built nuclear power plant, | 英国还拥有世界上最昂贵的 尚未建成的核电站 |
| 230 | Hinkley Point C. | 欣克利点C. |
| 231 | Its environmental impact assessment ran 31,401 pages. | 其环境影响评价共达31,401页. |
| 232 | The plant will feature a 700 million pound, quote, fish disco, unquote, | 植物将呈现出7亿磅的特征,引文,鱼迪斯科,不引文, |
| 233 | which will pulse sounds underwater to deter animals from its intake pipes. | 它的脉冲在水下会发出声响 阻止动物从摄入管中走出来 |
| 234 | The government spent 32 years and 179 million pounds | 政府花了32年,1.79亿英镑 |
| 235 | planning a tunnel beneath Stonehenge to relieve traffic, | 计划在巨石阵下修建一条隧道 以缓解交通流量 |
| 236 | only to officially scrap the plan this year. | 只有正式废除今年的计划。 |
| 237 | Even basic tasks, such as obtaining power, can be nightmarish. | 甚至基本任务,如获得权力,也可能是夜梦. |
| 238 | Quote, in the UK, you can be waiting for five years | 引文 在英国 你可以等五年 |
| 239 | to get any kind of energy-intensive project connected to the grid, unquote, | 获得任何种类的能源密集型项目 连接到电网,没有报价, |
| 240 | Sam Bowman, a founding editor of the magazine Works in Progress, told me. | "进步工程"杂志的创始编辑萨姆·鲍曼(Sam Bowman)告诉我. |
| 241 | These failures are all self-imposed. | 这些失败都是自我造成的。 |
| 242 | Parliament, by design, could exercise broad authority over these matters, | 根据设计,议会可对这些事项行使广泛权力, |
| 243 | yet rather than wielding this power to confront Britain's problems, | 而不是用这种力量对抗英国的问题, |
| 244 | it has chosen instead to smother the state with veto points, proceduralism, and endless reviews. | 它选择用否决权、程序主义和无休止的审查来扼杀国家。 |
| 245 | Britain suffers from a housing crisis significantly worse than America's. | 英国住房危机比美国严重得多。 |
| 246 | The problem cannot even be blamed on zoning, | 这个问题甚至不能归咎于分区, |
| 247 | because Britain does not have a zoning regime to speak of. | 因为英国没有分区制度 |
| 248 | Rather, every attempt to build is a painful ad hoc negotiation | 相反,每一项尝试都是痛苦的特设谈判 |
| 249 | with local government councils and NIMBY residents. | 地方政府委员会和NIMBY居民。 |
| 250 | As a result, housing costs per square foot are among the highest in Europe. | 因此,每平方英尺的住房费用是欧洲最高的。 |
| 251 | In the words of one report, quote, | 用一份报告的话来说, |
| 252 | our housing stock offers the worst value for money of any advanced economy, unquote. | 任何发达经济体的物价都最低 |
| 253 | France has roughly the same population as the UK, but almost 50% more homes. | 法国人口与英国大致相同,但几乎增加了50%的住宅. |
| 254 | And yet, since the financial crisis, the UK's rate of housing production has only fallen. | 然而,自金融危机以来,英国的住房生产率只有所下降。 |
| 255 | Britain's building problems are not limited to the periphery. | 英国的建筑问题并不限于外围地区. |
| 256 | In London, the typical house sold in 2024 cost 11 times median earnings. | 在伦敦,2024年出售的典型房屋花费了中位数收入的11倍. |
| 257 | And although London remains an alluring global city, | 虽然伦敦仍然是一个吸引人的全球城市, |
| 258 | it too is stagnating. | 它也是停滞不前的。 |
| 259 | Since the financial crisis, worker productivity there has been essentially flat. | 自金融危机以来,工人的生产力基本平稳。 |
| 260 | Even so, London today is almost 50% more productive than the West Midlands, | 即便如此,今天伦敦的产量几乎比西部中部地区高50%, |
| 261 | which includes both Stoke and Birmingham. | 包括斯托克和伯明翰 |
| 262 | Anna Stansbury, an economist at MIT, | 麻省理工学院的经济学家安娜·斯坦斯伯里 |
| 263 | told me that the gaps between London and other British cities | 说伦敦和其他英国城市之间的隔阂 |
| 264 | are comparable to those between cities in West and East Germany. | 与西德和东德城市之间的类似。 |
| 265 | In regional terms, the problem of the past two decades is essentially that | 就区域而言,过去20年的问题基本上是: |
| 266 | London has hardly grown, yet Britain's smaller cities remain so far behind it. | 伦敦几乎没有增长,然而英国的较小城市仍然远远落后于它. |
| 267 | There are some exceptions to the general pattern of British malaise. | 英国的病情一般模式有一些例外. |
| 268 | Oxford and Cambridge, world leaders in science for centuries, | 牛津大学和剑桥大学 几个世纪以来科学领域的世界领袖 |
| 269 | are belatedly becoming hubs for startups, | 成为初创企业的中心, |
| 270 | though they are close enough to London to share its housing afflictions. | 虽然他们离伦敦很近 足以分担其住房灾难 |
| 271 | The most optimistic place I visited outside London's orbit was Manchester, | 我在伦敦轨道外最乐观的地方是曼彻斯特 |
| 272 | where growth has consistently been double the UK average. | 其增长率始终是联合王国平均水平的两倍。 |
| 273 | Downtown Manchester was once almost totally depopulated. | 曼彻斯特市中心一度几乎完全人口减少。 |
| 274 | Today, approximately 100,000 people live there. | 今天,那里大约有10万人。 |
| 275 | After working hours in the city's pubs, you will hear conspicuous southern accents. | 在城市的酒吧里工作后 你会听到明显的南方口音 |
| 276 | In 2024, more Londoners moved to Manchester than vice versa. | 2024年,更多的伦敦人移居曼彻斯特,反之亦然. |
| 277 | Manchester has succeeded in part because it gained some independence | 曼彻斯特之所以成功 部分原因是因为它获得了一些独立 |
| 278 | from the shambolic central government in London. | 来自伦敦的桑博利中央政府 |
| 279 | In an experiment in de-evolution begun in 2011, | 在2011年开始的脱产实验中. |
| 280 | London granted the city more power over taxes and transportation. | 伦敦给予该市更多的税收和运输权. |
| 281 | The bus network was brought under public control, | 公交网络被公众控制 |
| 282 | and a local £1 billion good growth fund was set up to distribute investments across the city. | 并建立了一个当地10亿英镑的良好增长基金,以在整个城市分配投资。 |
| 283 | Manchester, as a result, is now better able to set its own economic course. | 因此,曼彻斯特现在能够更好地确定自己的经济路线. |
| 284 | You can't order growth from the top down, Andy Burnham, | 你不能自上而下地命令成长,安迪·伯纳姆 |
| 285 | the mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017, told me. | 大曼彻斯特市长 从2017年起,告诉我。 |
| 286 | The UK for most of our lives has been an overly centralized country. | 我们大部分时间里,联合王国是一个过于集中的国家。 |
| 287 | Many Labour supporters wished that Burnham, rather than the hapless Starmor, was Prime Minister. | 许多工党支持者希望伯纳姆,而不是不幸的斯塔莫尔担任总理. |
| 288 | But for that to happen, Burnham would need to return to Parliament, | 但为了做到这一点,伯纳姆需要回到议会, |
| 289 | where he had previously served for 16 years. | 在那里,他以前服务了16年。 |
| 290 | He attempted to do so in January when a parliamentary seat became vacant in Greater | 他在1月份试图这样做,当时大国民议会席位出现空缺。 |
| 291 | Manchester, but he was blocked by Starmor's allies who did not want to elevate a potential rival, | 曼彻斯特,但他被Starmor的盟友挡住了 他们不想提升潜在的对手, |
| 292 | already called the quote, King of the North, unquote. | 北方的国王,已经叫了引号,没有引号 |
| 293 | In May, after Starmor's grip on power had loosened even further, | 5月,在斯塔莫掌握权力后, |
| 294 | a Labour movement of Parliament in Makerfield, another Manchester seat, | a Makerfield的议会劳工运动,曼彻斯特的另一个席位, |
| 295 | voluntarily resigned to offer Burnham another avenue to challenging the party leader. | 自愿辞职为伯纳姆提供了另一条挑战党领袖的渠道. |
| 296 | He will not be blocked this time. | 这次他不会被封锁的 |
| 297 | Yet Burnham's path to power is not guaranteed. | 然而伯纳姆的掌权之路并没有保障. |
| 298 | Even Manchester is not immune to the country's anti-establishment mood. | 连曼彻斯特也未能幸免国家的反建国情绪. |
| 299 | In Makerfield, recent elections have seen significant improvement for the Green Party, | 在马克菲尔德,最近的选举 绿党, |
| 300 | the populist left party on the rise in Britain. | 民粹主义的左翼政党在英国崛起. |
| 301 | The Greens are run by Zach Polanski, a former hypnotherapist and a self-described, | 格林一家由扎克·波兰斯基(Zach Polanski)管理,他是一位前催眠师和自我描述的, |
| 302 | quote, eco-populist, unquote, who wants to legalize drugs and implement a wealth tax. | 引文,生态流行主义者,不引文,想将毒品合法化,实行财富税. |
| 303 | But the strongest performance has been put up by the Reform Party, | 但改革党最强的表现, |
| 304 | the populist hard-right party that's rising nationally even faster than the Greens. | 民粹主义的硬右翼政党 在全国崛起的速度甚至比绿党还快 |
| 305 | Both of these parties, once relegated to the fringe of British politics, | 这两个政党,曾经处于英国政治的边缘, |
| 306 | have done exceptionally well in recent national surveys. | 在最近的全国调查中表现特别出色。 |
| 307 | Reform has in fact been out polling all the others for months, | 事实上,几个月来, 改革已经结束了所有其他人的投票, |
| 308 | the first time in more than 40 years that neither conservatives nor Labour has led. | 这是40多年来第一次 无论是保守派还是工党都没有领导 |
| 309 | No matter who in the Labour Party replaces Stammer, presuming he resigns, | 不管工党谁取代斯塔默 假定他辞职 |
| 310 | Britain must hold another general election within the next three years. | 英国必须在未来三年内再举行一次大选. |
| 311 | The odds-on favorite to be the next Prime Minister after the election is Reform's leader. | 当选后的下一任总理, |
| 312 | His name is Nigel Farage. | 他的名字是奈杰尔·法拉吉。 |
| 313 | How could the prime instigator of Brexit now find himself in a position to be promoted to Prime | 布雷克西特的主要煽动者 怎么会发现自己能晋升为首相 |
| 314 | Minister? | 部长? |
| 315 | Farage is ascendant because he has an enticing answer to the question, | 法拉吉很强壮 因为他对问题有诱惑性回答 |
| 316 | who broke Britain? | 谁毁了英国? |
| 317 | The feckless elites, the ineffective civil servants, and the unwanted immigrants. | 无足轻重的精英,无效的公务员,以及不受欢迎的移民. |
| 318 | Even if the country's problems are beyond his capacity to solve, | 即使国家的问题超出了他的能力 |
| 319 | he at least can promise their reckoning. | 他至少可以答应他们的清算。 |
| 320 | I met Farage in March, right before he took the stage at a campaign rally in Milton Keynes, | 我遇见法拉吉在3月, 就在他走上舞台 在米尔顿凯恩斯的竞选集会, |
| 321 | a commuter town outside London most famous for its many roundabouts. | 伦敦外的一个通勤小镇 因其众多环路而闻名 |
| 322 | He and his merry band of insurgents were touring the country ahead of the local elections in May, | 他和他的一群暴徒在5月地方选举前前往该国旅行, |
| 323 | in which Reform would gain some 1,400 municipal government seats. | 其中,改革将获得大约1 400个市政府席位。 |
| 324 | 30% of the total seats contested, while Labour would lose about 1,400 and the Tories about 500. | 全部席位的30%进行竞争,而工党将损失约1,400人,托里党将损失约500人。 |
| 325 | Farage was in character, besuited with a pink and purple tie immaculately matched to his shirt, | 法拉吉有品格 穿着粉色紫色的领带 |
| 326 | and sporting his trademark Union Jack socks. | 并运动他的商标联盟杰克袜子。 |
| 327 | When he leaned forward, I smelled tobacco and possibly a faint whiff of the pint of lager | 他往前看时,我闻到烟草味 可能闻到一丁点啤酒味 |
| 328 | that he is so often pictured holding. | 以至于他经常被想象中的持有。 |
| 329 | He suddenly told me how he was preparing, upon his election, | 他突然告诉我,他是如何准备的, 在他当选时, |
| 330 | to wrest power from the deep state and deploy it to enact the will of the people. | 将权力从深州夺去,并部署它来颁布人民的意志. |
| 331 | We have to make sure within the civil service that we have people who are not willful obstructors, | 我们必须在公务员中确保 我们的人不是故意阻挠者, |
| 332 | unquote, he said. | 他说,没有引用。 |
| 333 | His government would not be like Donald Trump's first administration, initially unsure of how | 他的政府不会像唐纳德·特朗普的第一任政府那样,起初不确定如何 |
| 334 | to wield power, but like the second, ready to go from the start. | 掌权,但就像第二个,准备从头开始。 |
| 335 | Several hundred people had come to see Farage speak. | 几百人来看法拉吉的演讲 |
| 336 | Political rallies in England are more civilized than the American ones I am used to. | 英国的政治集会比我习惯的美国集会更文明. |
| 337 | People drink pints before the event, sit patiently in chairs during it, | 人们喝品脱之前, 耐心地坐在椅子上, |
| 338 | and leave in an orderly queue afterward. | 并且依次排队。 |
| 339 | After everyone took their seat, Farage delivered his speech, which was a rhapsody of declinism. | 在大家登上座位后,法拉吉发表了他的演讲,这简直是德林主义的狂言. |
| 340 | Quote, it is a period of complete political failure. | 引文:这是完全政治失败的时期. |
| 341 | Economically, we're going down the drain, unquote, he said. | 从经济上讲,我们要下水道,他说,不提。 |
| 342 | Every current and recent political leader was to blame. | 每个现任和最近的政治领袖都要受到指责。 |
| 343 | The Conservatives had delivered Brexit too slowly, allowed mass migration anyway, | 保守派给布雷克西特带来的太慢, 允许大规模迁徙,反正, |
| 344 | agreed to net zero emissions commitments. | 同意净零排放承诺。 |
| 345 | Labour was responsible for Britain's humiliation on the world stage | 工党对英国在世界舞台上的羞辱负责 |
| 346 | through its weak responses to the war on Iran and its general dithering. | 因为它对伊朗的战争反应软弱 和一般的分裂。 |
| 347 | The message was clear. | 信息是明确的。 |
| 348 | Only Farage could fix it. | 只有法拉吉能修复它。 |
| 349 | Farage's plan to consolidate power through a defanged civil service and constitutional | 法拉吉计划通过败坏的公务员制度和宪法巩固权力 |
| 350 | reform are detailed. | 改革是详细的。 |
| 351 | Cuts to the civil service are not just being promised in a general way. | 公务员职位的削减不仅仅是一般的许诺。 |
| 352 | A project 2025 style ministry by ministry roadmap is being discussed by reforms allies. | 改革盟国正在讨论按部委路线图划分的2025年风格部项目。 |
| 353 | Quasi constitutional laws that have restrained the power of the central government, | 限制中央政府权力的准宪法, |
| 354 | such as the 1998 Human Rights Act and the 2010 Equality Act, will be redrafted. | 将重新起草1998年《人权法》和2010年《平等法》。 |
| 355 | So will the 2008 Climate Change Act, which enshrined Britain's net zero commitments. | 《2008年气候变化法》也是如此,它体现了英国的净零承诺。 |
| 356 | Danny Kruger, a Conservative MP who defected to reform last year and is now part of its | Danny Kruger,一位保守党议员,去年叛逃改革,现在成为其成员 |
| 357 | brain trust, told me that fixing the country's problems requires first restoring parliamentary | 大脑信任,告诉我,解决国家的问题 首先需要恢复议会 |
| 358 | sovereignty. | 主权。 |
| 359 | That would mean limiting the ability of independent government bodies to direct policy, | 这意味着限制独立政府机构指导政策的能力, |
| 360 | and of course to exercise judicial review on acts of parliament. | 当然还要对议会的行为进行司法审查。 |
| 361 | Greater power for parliament could indeed enable needed reforms. | 议会更大的权力确实能够促成必要的改革。 |
| 362 | The accumulation of legal clutter is in no small part responsible for the country's | 法律上的杂乱无章的积累对我国的 |
| 363 | inability to build housing, infrastructure, and industry. | 无法建造住房、基础设施和工业。 |
| 364 | And parliament's ability to self-govern after decades of delegation to EU committees | 和议会的自我治理能力 经过几十年对欧盟委员会的授权 |
| 365 | has atrophied. | 已经萎缩。 |
| 366 | Even after Brexit, a sort of learned helplessness has prevailed within the political class. | 即使在布雷克西特之后,政治阶层中也普遍出现了某种学识丰富的无助现象. |
| 367 | Fred de Fassard, a former Tory political advisor, now at the Prosperity Institute, told me, | 弗雷德·德·法萨德(Fred de Fassard),前托里政治顾问,现在在繁荣研究所,告诉我, |
| 368 | If Farage is elected, perhaps that will change. | 如果法拉吉当选,那或许会改变。 |
| 369 | But Brexit proved that a sweeping assertion of sovereignty is by itself insufficient to | 但是,布雷克西特证明,全面主张主权本身不足以 |
| 370 | ensure growth, and indeed can be self-harming. | 确保增长,而且确实可能伤害自己。 |
| 371 | Many of the details about how Farage would restore Britain's place among wealthy nations, | 关于法拉吉如何恢复英国在富裕国家中的地位的许多细节, |
| 372 | and a sense of opportunity for its people are hazy. | 给人民带来机会的感觉很模糊 |
| 373 | I asked him how he would spur the kind of strong economic growth that the conservative | 我问他如何刺激保守派的强劲经济增长 |
| 374 | and labour parties had failed to achieve. | 劳工政党未能实现这一点。 |
| 375 | He answered by saying that he and his future ministers were successful businesspeople, | 他回答说,他和他的未来的部长是成功的商人, |
| 376 | unlike the current lot, and would therefore do better. | 与现在的情况不同,因此会做得更好。 |
| 377 | The Reform Party had promised to slash government spending and national deficits, though it has | 改革党承诺削减政府开支和国家赤字,尽管它已经 |
| 378 | promised to cut some taxes too. | 答应也会减税的 |
| 379 | Farage told me that shock therapy for the British state would be necessary. | 法拉吉告诉我 英国国家需要休克疗法 |
| 380 | He said, adding that he anticipates protests when he unveils plans to cut welfare benefits. | 他说,他预计,当他公布削减福利的计划时,将会有抗议。 |
| 381 | Because of such statements, Reform is often accused of being austerity rehashed, | 由于这些言论,改革经常被指责为紧缩, |
| 382 | or Thatcherism rewarmed. | 或撒切尔主义重新武装。 |
| 383 | But Reform's most specific economic pronouncements have largely been of the crowd-pleasing, | 但改革最具体的经济声明 在很大程度上是 众说纷纭, |
| 384 | non-Thatcherite variety. | 非撒切尔人品种。 |
| 385 | Cutting fuel taxes, keeping the NHS free at the point of service, and preserving the | 削减燃料税,在服务点保持国家保健服务的免费性,并保留 |
| 386 | triple lock, a policy effectively ensuring that state pensions increase faster than ordinary | 三锁,有效确保国家养老金增长快于普通 |
| 387 | wages. | 工资。 |
| 388 | Being cryptic about hard economic choices is electorally advantageous, particularly | 对艰难的经济选择持隐秘态度对选举有利,特别是 |
| 389 | when the general election could be years away. | 大选可能要等很多年 |
| 390 | This was in fact the strategy that Starmer employed in his election campaign, repeating | 这其实是斯塔默在竞选活动中采用的策略, |
| 391 | the word growth like a mantra without revealing how he would achieve it. | 成长的词就像一个漫画, 却没有揭示他是如何实现的。 |
| 392 | His political capital proved fleeting. | 他的政治资本被证明是短暂的。 |
| 393 | Reform may ascend to power only to find itself snared in the same trap. | 改革可能只是为了陷入同一个陷阱而上台。 |
| 394 | Still, even well-connected Westminster types, who served in prior governments, | 即使在前几届政府任职的威斯敏斯特 关系也很好 |
| 395 | told me they did not really dread a Reform government. | 他们不害怕改革政府。 |
| 396 | Reform, in their view, is the only party iconoclastic enough to attempt major structural | 他们认为,改革是唯一一个 足以尝试重大结构的政党 |
| 397 | repairs on the foundations of the British state and economy. | 修复英国国家和经济的基础。 |
| 398 | To believe that something is broken doesn't mean that it's irretrievably broken. | 相信某物被打破,并不意味着它已经不可挽回地被打破了. |
| 399 | James Orr, a Cambridge theology professor who leads policy for Reform, told me, | 剑桥神学教授詹姆斯·奥尔 领导改革政策,告诉我 |
| 400 | We think it's becoming increasingly obvious that we're the only political movement with | 我们认为我们是唯一的政治运动 |
| 401 | a chance. | 一个机会。 |
| 402 | The most detailed plans released by Reform involve immigration, the one issue that evokes | 改革所公布的最详细计划涉及移民问题,这是一个引起人们注意的问题。 |
| 403 | as much anger among voters as living standards do. | 选民的愤怒和生活水平一样多。 |
| 404 | The Conservatives broke their pledges. | 保守党打破承诺. |
| 405 | Johnson promised to reduce the net inflow of migrants, but his policies, meant to bolster | 约翰逊承诺减少移民的净流入量,但他的政策意在加强 |
| 406 | healthcare staffing and stabilize falling university enrollment, led to the legal arrival | 保健人员配备和大学入学率稳定下降,导致合法入学 |
| 407 | more than three million non-EU immigrants, who now amount to one out of every 25 people | 超过300万非欧盟移民,现在占每25人中的1人 |
| 408 | in Britain. | 在英国。 |
| 409 | Later, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struggled to deal with the arrival of more than 150,000 | 后来,里希·苏纳克总理奋力应付15万多人的到来. |
| 410 | migrants who'd crossed the English Channel on small boats. | 乘小船穿越英吉利海峡的移民 |
| 411 | Even the current Labour government, sensing the anger in the electorate, has pledged to | 甚至现任工党政府也意识到选民的愤怒,承诺 |
| 412 | reduce migration. | 减少移徙。 |
| 413 | It is on immigration that Farage offers the starkest choice. | 正是在移民问题上,法拉吉提出了最严峻的选择。 |
| 414 | He has put Zia Youssef, a wealthy businessman and the son of Sri Lankan immigrants, at the | 他把Zia Youssef,一个富有的商人和斯里兰卡移民的儿子,带到了那里。 |
| 415 | helm of his immigration agenda. | 主持他的移民议程。 |
| 416 | Youssef's major policy pitch is, quote, operation restoring justice, unquote, which | 尤瑟夫的主要政策投注是,引文:行动恢复正义,不引文。 |
| 417 | calls for the deportation of all unauthorized migrants in Britain through a new ICE-style | 要求通过新的ICE方式将所有未经许可的移民驱逐出境 |
| 418 | agency called UK Deportation Command. | 称为英国驱逐指挥部的机构。 |
| 419 | Youssef is the kind of zealous and paradoxical convert whom Reform and other parties of the | Youssef是那种狂热和自相矛盾的皈依者。 |
| 420 | global New Right revel in, a practicing Muslim who strenuously campaigns to keep churches | 全球新权利欢乐,一个执教的穆斯林,他们奋力维护教堂 |
| 421 | from being converted to mosques. | 从被改造成清真寺。 |
| 422 | He is, to Farage, what Stephen Miller is to Donald Trump, a hard-faced nativist, always | 对法拉吉来说 他就是史蒂芬·米勒 对唐纳德·特朗普来说 |
| 423 | aware of the latest heinous offense committed by an immigrant and always warning of impending | 了解移民最近犯下的令人发指的罪行,并随时警告即将到来; |
| 424 | civilizational collapse, next to whom the boss looks moderate and relaxed. | 文明的崩溃,旁边的老板看起来温和放松。 |
| 425 | Quote, never again will British people be a second-class citizen in their own country, | 引文 英国人再也不会成为自己国家的二等公民了 |
| 426 | unquote. | 说吧 |
| 427 | Youssef declared in a speech on the night I saw Farage and Milton Keynes. | 尤瑟夫在我见到法拉吉和米尔顿·凯恩斯的那晚的演讲中宣布. |
| 428 | Quote, under a reform government, His Majesty's Parliament will be sovereign once again, and | 引文:在改革政府之下,陛下的议会将再次拥有主权, |
| 429 | the rights of the great British people will reign supreme, unquote. | 伟大的英国人民的权利 将统治至高无上,不言自明。 |
| 430 | Given the anger over broken border promises, it's no surprise that Reform's clearest | 鉴于对违反边界承诺的愤怒 改革最清楚并不奇怪 |
| 431 | message has been on restricting migration. | 有关限制移徙的信息。 |
| 432 | It resonates because Britain's economic failures have contributed to a growing culture | 它的共鸣是因为英国的经济失败 促进了文化的发展 |
| 433 | of precarity, too. | 也具有先天性 |
| 434 | But unwinding migration is likely to solve Britain's deepest woes, most of which are | 但是,不减少的移徙有可能解决英国最深重的灾难,其中多数是: |
| 435 | domestically manufactured, not imported. | 国内制造,非进口. |
| 436 | With every disappointing year, with the failure of every backfiring government policy, | 每逢令人失望的一年,每一次反政府政策的失败, |
| 437 | the nostalgia for British exceptionalism has grown stronger. | 对英国特殊主义的怀旧已经变得更加强烈。 |
| 438 | Restoration to global hegemony is impossible. | 恢复全球霸权是不可能的。 |
| 439 | Stabilization is achievable, but only if Britain's next ruling class does something that its | 稳定是可以实现的,但只有英国的下一个统治阶级 做一些它自己的 |
| 440 | governments over the past two decades have not managed. | 过去20年中,政府未能成功。 |
| 441 | Stop choosing the self-harming option. | 停止选择自我伤害的选择. |
| 442 | Arresting the current trajectory of decline will require the recognition of a hard truth. | 要遏制目前的衰退趋势,就必须承认一个确凿的真相。 |
| 443 | What broke Britain was not Brussels, bad luck, or bankers. | 打破英国的不是布鲁塞尔,不是运气不好,也不是银行家。 |
| 444 | The British broke Britain. | 英国人打破了英国. |
| 445 | To mend it, they must first stop breaking it further. | 为了弥补它,他们必须首先停止进一步打破它。 |
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