英文早点丨0328_“脱欧”变“拖欧”，百万民众要求再公投决定是否脱欧

英国和欧盟经过多年的谈判，终于确定3月29日脱欧。但是，由于决定的太过匆忙，导致英国许多协议未能与欧盟达成共识。脱欧进程可谓一波三折，继欧盟同意英国有条件延期脱欧后，英国国内却爆发大规模示威游行。3月23日，英国近百万民众上街游行，要求政府就脱欧问题举行第二次公投。

There's only so much fortune a man really need and the rest is just for showing off. — Forrest Gump

Thousands of protesters in London began marching on Saturday afternoon from Hyde Park to Parliament in a last-ditch effort to reverse Britain’s looming split from the European Union, in a sign of the enormous anger among pro-Europeans in Britain about the stalemate among lawmakers.

The chances of protesters persuading lawmakers to back a second referendum on Britain’s withdrawal, known as Brexit, are remote. But that did not stop a petition calling to cancel Brexit from racking up more than 4.2 million on Parliament’s website on Saturday — the same day as the march.

The most likely form a second referendum would take is a choice between the prime minister’s exit deal and remaining in the European Union. Many polls show that Britons have now gone from mostly thinking that Britain was right to leave Europe after the referendum to mostly thinking the opposite.

文本选自 ：The New York Times（纽约时报）

作者 ： Benjamin Mueller and Palko Karasz

原文标题 ： Angry Over Brexit Stalemate, Britons March in London to Demand Second Vote

原文发布时间 ：23 Mar. 2019

protester

英 [prəˈtestə(r)]     美 [prəˈtestər ]

• n. 抗议者;反对者;提出异议者;断言者

stalemate

英 [ˈsteɪlmeɪt]     美 [ˈstelˌmet]

• n. 僵局;[游戏]王棋受困

• vt. 使陷入僵局

withdrawal

英 [wɪðˈdrɔ:əl]     美 [wɪðˈdrɔəl, wɪθ-]

• n. 移开;撤回，撤退，撤开;收回，取回，撤回

referendum

英 [ˌrefəˈrendəm]      美 [ˌrɛfəˈrɛndəm]

• n. 全民公决;公民投票;外交官请示书;请示书

早起卡 ☞ 人真正需要的财富只有一点点 其余的都是用来炫耀。—《阿甘正传》

翻译卡 ☞ 周六下午，伦敦数千名抗议者开始从海德公园(Hyde Park)向英国议会抗议游行，这是逆转英国即将脱离欧盟所做的最后努力。这一迹象表明，英国亲欧洲人士对议员之间的僵局感到极为愤怒。