Brexit and new pound coin 英國“脫歐”後進程、新版1英鎊硬幣

本集內容

Brexit: What next for UK? 英國啟動“脫歐”程序

New British coin ‘most secure in the world’ 英國皇傢造幣廠稱新1英鎊硬幣“世界上最安全”

文字稿

Once Article 50 has been triggered the UK has just two years to negotiate its exit from the EU. No country has ever tried this before. It’s a very complicated process: first the European Council, which is made up of the EU’s 27 leaders, agrees guidelines for the negotiations. Then the European Commission then negotiates with the UK on behalf of the EU. Together they will need to unpick 43 years of treaties and agreements.

《裡斯本條約》第50條一旦被啟動，英國則僅有兩年時間來完成有關退出歐盟的談判。這是任何歐盟成員國都未曾嘗試過的步驟。“脫歐”程序非常復雜——首先，由27名歐盟首腦組成的歐洲理事會需認可談判的指導方針；然後再由歐盟委員會代表歐盟與英國商討相關事宜，雙方將共同深入剖析英國加入歐盟43年以來所簽署和達成的各項條約與協議。

Here is the new pound coin, and it does have some special security features, apart from being twelve-sided and two-coloured, it’s got very small writing on it, and it has a sort of hologram with the pound sign at the bottom, and a special feature inside which means that coin machines can recognise whether it’s genuine or not – and that’s important, because there are so many fakes of the old pound coin.

這枚新版1英鎊硬幣加入瞭一些特殊的安全特性。除采用雙色十二邊形的設計之外，新硬幣表面刻有極小的文字，其底部印有類似全息圖的英鎊符號，硬幣內還設置瞭特殊的安全技術，這意味著市面上的投幣式販賣機將能夠識別其真偽，確保這一點十分重要，因為舊版1英鎊的偽幣實在太多瞭。

詞匯

triggered
觸發瞭，啟動瞭

unpick
深入地剖析

hologram
全息圖（效果）

練習

請從以下詞匯中選擇適當的答案來完成句子。註意：你可能需要改變單詞的時態來完成句子。

triggered / unpick / hologram

1. The melting of the glacier was __________ by the climate warming more than fifty years ago.

2. The rock singer, who died a few years ago, will become the first star to return to the stage via __________ at a new concert show launching this year.

3. Now that the organisation has closed we’ve got to __________ all the agreements we had made with our clients.

答案

1. The melting of the glacier was triggered by the climate warming more than fifty years ago.

2. The rock singer, who died a few years ago, will become the first star to return to the stage via hologram at a new concert show launching this year.

3. Now that the organisation has closed we’ve got to unpick all the agreements we had made with our clients.