Proponents of Brexit hark back to an imagined past, conjuring up a romanticized view of an imperial Britain that traded with the world. But this is a fallacy.
支持英国脱欧的民众梦想回到过去,回到那个幻想的大英帝国,与全世界都有贸易往来。但这只是一个谬论。
As Danish finance minister Kristian Jensen noted last month: “There are two kinds of European nations - small nations and countries that have not yet realized they are small nations.”
丹麦财政部长克里斯蒂安•延森上个月指出:“欧盟的成员国分为两种:小成员国和还没有意识到他们是小国的国家。”
And it was none other than Sir Henry Tizard, chief scientific adviser to the UK's ministry of defense, who said Britain is "not a great power, and never will be again".
英国国防部首席科学顾问亨利•蒂泽德爵士(Sir Henry Tizard)曾说过,英国“不再是强国,且永远也不会成为强国了”。
He wrote those words in 1949. Perhaps it's time his country heed them.
他在1949年写下这句话。也许英国是时候该听从这句忠告了。
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