2018-07-26

2018-07-26  本文已影响0人  梓冬青

Migration matters: the EU summit(欧盟的难民危机)

① As so often before[1], illegal immigration will dominate[2] the two-day gathering of EU leaders that starts today in Brussels.
② What makes this time different is that the crisis is solely political.
③ Asylum applications and border detections are not especially higher than they were before the mass refugee flows of 2015-16.
④ But Europe has not got over its migration hangover: Angela Merkel is under pressure from a hardline coalition partner to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers arriving at Germany's borders, while Italy's new populist government wants to stop them reaching Europe in the first place.
⑤ To remedy this the leaders will discuss various ideas, including "disembarkation platforms" outside the EU to which immigrants picked up at sea can be taken, and from where those without a claim for protection can be returned.
⑥ The administrative and legal difficulties around such proposals are legion.
⑦ But so are the political pressures Europe's leaders face at home.

词与词组

Migration n. 迁移, 移居(大规模的移动,从一个地方移动到另一个地方)

dominate vt. 占据主导地位;统治
solely adv. 完全地;纯粹地 (completely/purely/entirely/exclusively)
asylum n. 避难

refugee n. 避难者; 难民
hangover n. 遗留影响;宿醉
hard line: 强硬路线/态度
hardline / hard-line adj. 强硬的
coalition n. 联盟
populist adj. 民粹的
populism n. 民粹主义
remedy vt. 弥补;纠正
embark vi. 上船
embark on: 开始做……
disembark vi. 下船

补充

get over: 从……中恢复过来
asylum-seeker 寻求庇护者


  1. 时间状语:和往常一样。

  2. sth. dominates the meeting/gathering (of): 某个问题成为 (……) 会议的主要议题

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