和許多發(fā)達經(jīng)濟體一樣，英國也面臨一系列的經(jīng)濟和社會問題：怎樣提高購屋支付能力(housing affordability，即稅后房屋價格與人均收入之比)?如何縮小(reduce the widening gap)地區(qū)之間越來越大的貧富差距?如何解決低端勞動者越來越嚴重的不安全感(deepening insecurity)?如果應對年輕人相對高的“文盲”和“數(shù)學盲”(illiteracy and innumeracy)比例?(據(jù)OECD報告，在23個發(fā)達國家中，英國16歲至19歲的年輕人的讀寫能力和數(shù)學能力分別排22位與23位，而退休的英國老人們卻是同齡組群中得分最高的。)為什么近年來工資水平停止上漲(growth come to a grinding halt)?如果為老齡化的人口提供充足的高質(zhì)量護理?衛(wèi)報的這篇社論認為，現(xiàn)在的英國面臨許多嚴重的問題，陷入退歐事務泥淖的政府卻沒有選擇正確的改革方向。

今天的句子：

詞匯突破：

Focus on 關注

Distracted by 被分心/心煩意亂

Fiendishly 極壞地;惡魔似地

Damaging 破壞性的

Public spending 公共支出

Entrench 加深

Inequality 不公

第一句：

Britain requires a government focused on these big challenges.

確定主干：

Britain requires a government

切分成分：

focused on these big challenges 定語

參考譯文：英國需要一個專注于這些巨大挑戰(zhàn)的政府。

第二句：

Instead, we have a government not only distracted by the fiendishly complicated task of trying to negotiate Britain’s exit from the EU, but one that is determined to pursue a set of deep and damaging public spending cuts that will further entrench economic and social inequalities.

確定主干：

Instead, we have a government not only … but one …

One=government

切分成分：

1. distracted by the fiendishly complicated task of trying to negotiate Britain’s exit from the EU 定語

2. that is determined to pursue a set of deep and damaging public spending cuts that will further entrench economic and social inequalities.

參考譯文：相反我們的政府不僅因極其復雜的退歐事務心煩意亂，而且決定進行一系列大幅的具有破壞性的公共開支削減，這將會進一步加深經(jīng)濟和社會的不公平。

明天的句子：

找別人貼價簽——煙草公司規(guī)避新的平裝法

The solution was to employ a separate agency to add promotional price stickers to the packets’ cellophane wrappers, a practice known in the trade as “stickering”, that, according to Sempah, involved “millions and millions” of packs and which the tobacco firms insist is not in breach of the regulations because it is not part of the manufacturing process.

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