加拿大PM居然公然吐槽英國?

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有句話好像是這樣說：

脫歐公投一時爽，談判代表一時慌

正式脫歐前，英國和歐盟已經深度融合了40多年。在此期間，國際貿易條款的談判都不需要英國單獨出面與多方國家細談。畢竟歐盟爸爸說行，就應該是在運籌帷幄之中吧。

現如今，英國政府似乎有點被脫歐帶來的一系列程序，條約和貿易談判「打」了個措手不及。這40多年，半上崗半打醬油的談判代表們怕是難求寶刀未老。

今天我們就看看加拿大的PM(總理)小土豆是怎麼「禮貌的」吐槽這件事情的～

（加拿大現任總理 賈斯汀·特魯多 以英俊親民的特徵獲得廣泛年輕人的「花痴」，並被中國粉絲親切的予以綽號「小土豆」）

Trudeau: UK's lack of negotiating practice could delay Canada trade deal.

【Nov 12th, 2020 【The Gurdian】

Canada could easily negotiate a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK, Justin Trudeau has said, but he warned that talks could be delayed because British negotiators are so out of practice.

賈斯汀·特魯多（Justin Trudeau）表示，加拿大可以輕鬆地與英國談判達成脫歐後的貿易協議，但他警告稱，由於英國談判代表的生疏，談判可能會延遲。

Speaking at an online event hosted by the Financial Times, the Canadian Prime Minister said he remained upbeat about the prospect of a trade deal between the two countries before the end of the year.

加拿大總理在英國《金融時報》主持的在線活動上說，他對今年年底前兩國之間達成貿易協議的前景保持樂觀。

「We know how to negotiate trade deals,」 said Trudeau, alluding to a string of recent pacts sealed by Canada. 「The UK hasn’t had to negotiate trade deals in the past few decades.」

特魯多說：「我們知道如何談判貿易協定。」這暗示了加拿大近年來籤署的一系列條約。「過去幾十年來，英國不必談判貿易協定。」

Any barrier to an agreement was likely to come from the UK as its negotiators juggled talks with multiple nations, Trudeau warned. 「There is an issue of not really having the bandwidth within the [UK] government to move forward on this,」 he said.

特魯多告誡說，在英國的談判代表們與多個國家進行談判時，任何達成協議的障礙都可能來自英國。他說：「這裡存在一個問題，[英國]政府內部實際上沒有足夠的『能力寬度』來推進這一進程。」

As the Brexit transition comes to an end, Boris Johnson’s government has the difficult task of lining up deals with key non-EU nations, including Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

隨著英國退歐過渡期的結束，鮑裡斯·詹森（Boris Johnson）政府面臨著艱巨的任務，包括需要與澳大利亞，紐西蘭和美國在內的重要非歐盟國家達成協議。

With the 31 December deadline rapidly approaching and a number of deals still outstanding, the shadow trade secretary, Emily Thornberry, recently condemned the Conservative government’s inability to show completed trade pacts as an 「abysmal and shambolic state of affairs」.

隨著12月31日截止日期的迅速臨近以及許多交易仍然懸而未決，代理貿易部長艾米莉·桑伯裡（Emily Thornberry）近期譴責保守黨政府無法展示 貿易協定的完成 是「糟糕和混亂的的事態」。

Trudeau and the UK prime minister spoke earlier this week, discussing how to strengthen trade and economic co-operation between the two allies.Trade with Canada is worth nearly 17.4bn (C$30bn), according to government figures. About 700 UK-based firms have a presence in Canada, and 1,100 businesses in the UK are owned or controlled by Canadians.

特魯多和英國首相本周早些時候交談了，討論了如何加強兩國盟友之間的貿易和經濟合作。政府數據顯示，英國與加拿大的貿易額接近174億英鎊（合300億加元）。在大約有700家總部設在英國的公司在加拿大市場有存在感，在英國也大約有1100家企業由加拿大人擁有或控制。

Trudeau’s government has signed a number of large trade pacts in recent years. In addition to joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership with 10 other Pacific nations, Canada recently completed a bruising and unpredictable set of free trade negotiations with the United States.

特魯多政府最近幾年籤署了許多大型貿易協定。除了與其他10個太平洋國家加入《跨太平洋夥伴關係全面進步協議》外，加拿大最近還與美國完成了一系列激烈的和不可預測的自由貿易談判。

Currently, economic relations between Canada and the UK are governed by the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a broad free-trade deal recently negotiated between Canada and the European Union that eliminated a number of pre-existing tariffs. Despite the challenges, Trudeau said he remained 「very optimistic」 that key provisions of CETA could form the basis of the new agreement.

目前，加拿大與英國之間的經濟關係受《綜合性經濟貿易協議》管轄，該協定是加拿大與歐盟最近達成的一項廣泛的自由貿易協議，取消了許多先前的關稅。儘管面臨諸多挑戰，特魯多表示，他仍然非常樂觀地認為，《綜合性經濟貿易協議》的主要規定可以構成新協議的基礎綱架。

「I’m very hopeful that it’s going to get done, but that really is up to the UK government because we’re there for it,」 said Trudeau. 「I just hope they can come around to it.」

特魯多說：「我非常希望能完成這項工作，但這確實取決於英國政府，因為我們在那兒努力。」 「我只是希望他們能解決這個問題。」

Article cited from:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/12/trudeau-upbeat-over-prospects-of-trade-deal-with-uk-by-end-of-year

Vocabulary:

- negotiate 談判

- out of practice 生疏

- prospect 希望，前景

- allude 間接提及某事物/某人

- pacts 協定，條約

- juggle with sth. 同時應付某事

- bandwidth 寬帶

- condemned 譴責

- abysmal 糟透的

- shambolic 混亂的

- bruising 激烈的/受挫的

- unpredictable 無法預測的

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