双语阅读英语外刊精讲：欧盟60年(附音频)

2018-10-18 11:07:18来源：酷学英语

　　重点词汇：

　　carnage: Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war. 大屠杀?

　　plenipotentiary: A plenipotentiary is a person who has full power to make decisions or take action on behalf of their government, especially in a foreign country.全权代表；全权大使

　　Palazzo dei Conservatori: 保守宫（意大利）

　　forerunner: someone or something that existed before something similar that developed or came later先驱，先导，前身

　　successor: Someone's successor is the person who takes their job after they have left. 继任者

　　vow: a serious promise誓言；誓约

　　pick up: If trade or the economy of a country picks up, it improves. （贸易、经济）改善

　　centrist: having political beliefs that are not extreme（政治上的）中间派的，温和派的

　　populist: 民粹主义者

　　put the finishing touches to: 完成最后的细节；收尾

　　重点句子：

　　[Sixty years ago], [with the carnage of the second world war alive in the memory,] plenipotentiaries (from six European countries) met [in Rome's Palazzo dei Conservatori] [to establish the European Economic Community, the forerunner to today's European Union.] 六十年前，随着二战大屠杀的记忆历历在目，来自六个欧洲国家的全权代表在罗马保守宫会晤，以建立欧洲经济共同体，这是欧盟的前身。

　　Theresa May, Britain's prime minister, will stay at home [putting the finishing touches to a letter (she will send the EU on March 29th),] [officially beginning the first departure of a member the club has ever known]. 英国首相特雷莎梅将待在家中，对她将于3月29日发送给欧盟的一封信作最后的润色和收尾，这也标志着欧盟成员第一次的正式离开。

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