英国政府

The federal minimum wage has stayed at $5.15 since September 1997. At this level, it is worth 27% of average hourly wages for all employees other than those working in agriculture or for the federal government—far stingier[3] than Britains rate.

自1997年9月以来，美国联邦最低工资始终保持着5.15美元的水平，相当于所有雇员（除从事农业工作或在联邦政府谋职的人外）平均每小时工资水平的27％，远低于英国的标准。

The federal minimum wage has stayed at $5.15 since September 1997. At this level, it is worth 27% of average hourly wages for all employees other than those working in agriculture or for the federal government—far stingier than Britain's rate.

自1997年9月以来，美国联邦最低工资始终保持着5.15美元的水平，相当于所有雇员（除从事农业工作或在联邦政府谋职的人外）平均每小时工资水平的27％，远低于英国。

The government policy in turn is not a natural phenomenon but a result of generations of leaders succored by native English nations, first the UK, then the US.

而政府政策亦不是自然形成而是由于几代政治领袖受惠于以英语为母语的国家，先是英国而后美国的结果。

"It is disgraceful this night of British pride has been sullied," said a government spokesman.

&英国的荣耀在今晚被污损了，&一位政府发言人说。

Previous British reports, which concentrated on the government's use of intelligence, have been dismissed as whitewashes.

以往英国的调查主要关注政府的情报使用情况，这些调查被认为不过是一桶粉饰错误的白色涂料而已。

The Dutch ambassador was also at Heathrow to make clear his government's opposition to the ban on Mr Wilders entering the UK.

荷兰大使也在希思罗弄清楚他的政府反对在进入英国的Wilders先生上的禁令。

Deficits in America and Britain, for instance, stand at more than 10% of GDP.

比如在美国和英国，政府赤字占了超过GDP的10%。

It is possible that voters, using local and European elections as an easy way to punish the government, will push the ruling party into a historic fourth place on Thursday, behind the opposition Conservatives , the Liberal Democrats and UKIP , a single-issue, anti-European party.

很可能民众会利用此次地区及欧洲议会选举的机会来推翻现任政府使其成为历史，执政党有望在周四成为继他的对手保守党，自由民主党和英国独立党（一个持单一立场反对欧洲的政党）之后的第四个被推翻的政党。

Cycling England is a new government-funded body charged with promoting cycling across the country. It is investing ??ê17 million into a group of English 'demonstration towns'- Aylesbury, Brighton, Darlington, Derby, Exeter and Lancaster - to create a cycle-friendly environment, offer safety training and generally encourage residents to take up cycling.

英格兰自行车协会是一个新的由政府支助的团体，致力于在全国推广自行车运动，它向一组英国的&示范城镇&投资了1700万英镑，包括艾尔斯伯里、布赖顿、达灵顿、德比、埃克塞特和兰卡斯特，用以创造一个友好的自行车氛围，提供安全培训，并激励当地居民参与自行车运动。

Thirty years ago, they had the Stasi. Today, Britain has such broadly drawn and elastic surveillance laws that Poole borough council could exploit them to spend two weeks spying on a family wrongly accused of lying on a school application form.

英国的监控法律条文设计的如此广泛而灵活，以至于当普尔市的地方政府因为怀疑一户家庭在申请学校时提供了虚假资料而对其进行两个星期的秘密监视时，也只是依法办事罢了。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。