Brexit and new pound coin 英国“脱欧”后进程、新版1英镑硬币

Brexit and new pound coin 英国“脱欧”后进程、新版1英镑硬币

本集内容 Brexit: What next for UK? 英国启动“脱欧”程序

New British coin 'most secure in the world' 英国皇家造币厂称新1英镑硬币“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.

《里斯本条约》第50条一旦被启动，英国则仅有两年时间来完成有关退出欧盟的谈判。这是任何欧盟成员国都未曾尝试过的步骤。“脱欧”程序非常复杂——首先，由27名欧盟首脑组成的欧洲理事会需认可谈判的指导方针；然后再由欧盟委员会代表欧盟与英国商讨相关事宜，双方将共同深入剖析英国加入欧盟43年以来所签署和达成的各项条约与协议。

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.

这枚新版1英镑硬币加入了一些特殊的安全特性。除采用双色十二边形的设计之外，新硬币表面刻有极小的文字，其底部印有类似全息图的英镑符号，硬币内还设置了特殊的安全技术，这意味着市面上的投币式贩卖机将能够识别其真伪，确保这一点十分重要，因为旧版1英镑的伪币实在太多了。

词汇 triggered

触发了，启动了

unpick

深入地剖析

hologram

全息图（效果）

练习 请从以下词汇中选择适当的答案来完成句子。注意：你可能需要改变单词的时态来完成句子。

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.