英国政府

The mistaken belief that the EU is responsible for as much as 80% of all legislation in Europe (it is no more than 50%), and a lack of understanding of the role of national governments, including Britain's, in passing EU laws, have fostered the belief that an unaccountable and undemocratic machine in Brussels is somehow usurping the ancient role of Parliament.

认为欧盟要负责欧洲80%的立法（其实是不超过50%）的错误想法，对包括英国在内的国家政府在通过欧盟法律时所扮演的角色缺乏理解，这些都助长了一种偏见：位于布鲁塞尔的欧盟就是一个莫名其妙的、不民主的机器，不知何故正在篡夺议会所承担的古老角色。

Unlike his British counterparts, who favour verbless sentences, Mr Sarkozy is a verbaholic.

萨科齐总统与那些喜欢用无动词句子的英国政治家不同，他特别喜欢用动词表达政府的意愿。

Its creators and editors ask:"Can the BBC tell the truth….when its senior managers are appointed by the government" and will be fired if they step out of line and become too critical.

它的创作者和编辑（戴维斯克伦威尔和爱德华兹）问：&可以告诉英国广播公司的真相……。时，其高级管理人员是由政府委任&，并会被解雇，如果他们走出去的路线，变得太关键。

Ever since Mr Murdoch began to stalk the Journal, the news media has been singing with stories of his barbarities. How he habitually breaks his promises that he will protect journalistic independence. How he uses his media empire to advance his business interests or pursue personal feuds. How he fills his British tabloids with topless girls and bombastic headlines. How he kowtows to the Chinese government.

自从默多克先生开始对《日报》虎视眈眈以来，新闻媒体就高调披露他的粗暴手法，包括他如何习惯性地违背自己保护新闻独立的承诺；他如何使用旗下的传媒帝国来实现自己的商业利益或公报私仇；他如何让袒胸露乳的性感女郎和言过其实的头条新闻登上自己掌控的英国八卦媒体；以及他如何屈服于中国政府的压力。

In a way, governments would be faced with a similar problem to the one that bedevilled Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, earlier this year when he sought to abolish the country's lowest rate of income tax.

在某种程度上，政府也面临同样的困境，备受困扰的英国首相布朗今年年初寻求废除低收入者的收入税，这个变化又造就了许多人利益受损，从而怨大于赞。

Hazel Blears, the British Communities Secretary, often appears to be the Labour government's cheerleader in chief, with a reputation for loyalty to the party.

作为英国社区大臣的Hazel Blears，通常以劳工政府领袖的身份出现，享有效忠该党的盛名。

The recovery has been helped by an extraordinary stimulus, both fiscal and monetary. The budget deficit has burgeoned to a post-war record, the base rate is at a 300-year low and the policy of "quantitative easing" has been vigorously pursued.

在财政和货币方面，不同以往的刺激计划帮助英国摆脱了衰退，但是快速增长的财政赤字达到了战后的水平，基础利率则是300年以来最低的，&定量释放&的政策被政府积极地执行了。

The government owns businesses such as Royal Mail and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for a reason.

政府拥有英国皇家邮政和核能除役管理署(Nuclear Decommissioning Authority)等公司是有原因的。

By deluging threads like Iranelection with cries of support for the protesters, Americans and Britons rendered the site almost useless as a source of information—something that Iran's government had tried and failed to do.

Tiwwter对伊朗的跟踪完全充斥着对抗议者的支持，美国人和英国人顿时觉得这个网站对于获取信息来说一无是处，而这正是伊朗政府试图达到的效果却没有成功。

By deluging threads like Iranelection with cries of support for the protesters, Americans and Britons rendered the site almost useless as a source of information—something that Iran's government had tried and failed to do.

要求支持伊朗大选抗议者的叫喊泛滥，美国人和英国人把这个网站当成了一个几乎无用的信息源，这实际是伊朗政府长久以来试图做却没有做到的。

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。