BBC纪录片《Europe - Them or Us》英国欧盟的爱恨情仇_BEC初级作文

BBC纪录片《Europe - Them or Us》英国欧盟的爱恨情仇

"Facts. We want facts. Please give us the facts."

“真相。我们想要真相。请给我们真相。”

That is the cry I hear again and again from people who feel assailed by claim and counter-claim about what it will mean if we vote to leave or remain in the EU.

如果我们投票离开欧盟或是留在欧盟，这意味着什么，关于这一点，那些对赞成或反对脱欧感到困扰的人们，这是我从他们那里反复听到的呼喊。

I've been trying to discover why one question has divided the public, torn apart political parties, felled prime ministers and baffled, bemused and angered our neighbours for decades - does Europe mean "them" or "us"?

我一直在试着了解，为什么一个问题能让公众产生分歧，让政党分裂，让首相下台，让我们的邻居困惑、恼火了几十年——欧洲意味着“他们”还是“我们”？

BBC纪录片《Europe - Them or Us》英国欧盟的爱恨情仇1

Winston Churchill can be considered a father of the idea of a European Union.

温斯顿·丘吉尔可以被认为是欧盟理念之父。

As our wartime leader, he proposed the creation of an "indissoluble union" between Britain and France.

作为我们的战时领导人，他提出在英国和法国之间创建一个“牢固的联盟”。

The British government signed up, rejecting only one part of the plan: a single currency. However, the French turned it and us down, not for the last time.