布莱尔

Under Mr. Blair, fusty old Britain has become an international exemplar of openness.

在布莱尔先生领导下，古板陈腐的英国已经成为国际上对外开放的榜样。

Under Mr Blair, fusty old Britain has become an international exemplar of openness.

在布莱尔先生治下，古板的旧英国成了代表"开放"的国际典范。

They mostly only pretended to agree, as a fence-sitting statement on the Middle East, thrashed out by Vladimir Putin and Britain's Tony Blair, showed.

在中东问题的表演上，除了普京和布莱尔进行了深入而坦率的交流外，许多领导人仅仅是假装同意发表一个骑墙的声明。

Mr. Blair will fit right in.

布莱尔先生，将适合的权利英寸

When Tony Blair arrived to take up his job at No 10 in May 1997 he was cheered by hundreds of flag-waving Labour activists brought in for the occasion.

布莱尔1997年5月抵达唐宁街十号的时候，受到数百名挥舞旗帜的工党活动家的欢呼，而那些人就是专门为这个场合准备的。

The old charm fell flat at that point.

曾经颠倒众生的布莱尔，这会儿一下子魅力全无。

In the streets of its capital, Freetown, Mr Blair was greeted almost like a returning messiah; once he must have hoped for something similar in Baghdad.

在首都弗里敦的街头上，布莱尔先生向路人致意，简直像一位荣归故里的弥赛亚人，这是他曾经向往的在巴格达街头发生的类似情景。

Some 61 percent disagreed that it is now more pleasant than in 1997, when a fresh-faced Blair won his first election victory. A further 69 percent thought it was more dangerous and 58 percent disagreed it was happier.

约61%的人说，自从1997年大选冒出了个布莱尔，英国就变得越来越不适合居住。69%的调查对象称如今的英国更加危险，58%的人认为不如从前快乐。

Growing friendlessness at home will be compounded by increasing loneliness abroad.

在国内，他本来就愈加孤寡，而布莱尔的离去又会让他在国际上更为孤独。

At our press conference, after Tony said that I was not just his colleague but his friend, Mike Frisby, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, finally asked the question I had been waiting for.

在我和布莱尔共同的新闻发布会上，托尼说我不仅是他的同僚，而且是他的朋友，接着，《华尔街日报》记者麦克·弗里斯比终于问到我一直等着的那个问题。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。