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The lady’s not for turning
铁娘子还不会走下政台
Angela Merkel will stay in power, if she wants to
安吉拉·默克尔会继续执掌政权，除非她自己不想干了
ON MARCH 17th, as The Economist went to press, Angela Merkel was on her way to Brussels for a summit that may define her legacy as German chancellor. At her initiative, the 28 member states of the European Union were to agree to a controversial deal with Turkey that Mrs Merkel had earlier this month sold as a potential “breakthrough” in the refugee crisis. But many of her EU counterparts demurred. Even if a compromise materialises, Mrs Merkel currently looks more isolated than any German chancellor since the 1950s.
重点词汇：
1 legacy 遗产；遗赠财物；（事件或历史的）遗留问题，后遗症
2 initiative 倡议；新方案
3 controversial 引起争论的；有争议的
4 demur 表示反对；提出异议；拒绝
5 materialise 成形，实现;
6 counterpart 职能(或地位)相当的人;对应的事物
The Foreign Secretary telephoned his Italian counterpart to protest.
外交部长致电意大利外长表示抗议。
The Foreign Minister held talks with his Chinese counterpart.
外交部长与中国外交部长举行了会谈。
听力原文:This continues a slide in Mrs Merkel’s power. Only last summer, she was first among equals in the EU, having managed the euro crisis and a showdown with Russia in Ukraine. But on September 4th she opened Germany’s borders to refugees streaming into Europe, setting off conflicts with Hungary and other eastern countries. At first she had Austria on her side. But in January its chancellor, Werner Faymann, turned into an opponent, as he led a group of Balkan countries to close their borders.
1 slide 降低；衰落
2 first among equals 首位平等
3 showdown 决出胜负的较量；最后的决战 摊牌
Fans gathered outside the stadium for the final showdown
球迷聚集在体育场外等着看最后的决赛
4 set off 引发;触发;激起
5 austria 奥地利;
6 hungary 匈牙利
7 balkan adj. 巴尔干半岛的;
听力原文:
Mrs Merkel’s isolation has not gone unnoticed in Germany. Horst Seehofer, the premier of Bavaria and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), nominally the sister party of Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has been attacking her for months. He demands a fixed upper limit on refugees, as Austria has imposed. Following regional elections on March 13th in which the Christian Democrats fared badly, Mr Seehofer warned of an “existential” threat to the Union parties.
重点词汇：
1 bavaria 巴伐利亚（位于德国南部，昔时为一独立王国）
2 nominally 名义上的；有名无实的
3 premier 省总理，地区总理
4 Christian Social Union（CSU）基督教社会联盟党
5 Christian Democratic Union (CDU)基督教民主联盟
6 fare ~ well, badly, better, etc. to be successful/unsuccessful in a particular situation 成功（或不成功、更好等）
The party fared very badly in the last election.
该党上次竞选情况很糟
His worry is that Union supporters keep drifting to the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a right-wing party founded in 2013. On March 13th it came second behind the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt, with 24%. Compared with other countries with populist parties, however, that is not unusual. “I do not see the AfD as an existential problem for the CDU, but I do see it as a problem,” Mrs Merkel said. Defiantly, she then redoubled her commitment to a “European” solution to the crisis, rather than “national” one, involving border closures.
重点词汇：
1 Saxony-Anhalt 萨克森-安哈尔特州;
2 populist 平民政治；民粹主义；民意论
3 closure （路或桥的）暂时封闭
听力原文:
The lessons of the elections are indeed ambiguous, for they show Mrs Merkel to be less vulnerable than it appears to observers abroad. The winners in the two westernstates, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, were the Greens and the Social Democrats, respectively. Their candidates supported Mrs Merkel’s stance on refugees and were rewarded for it. The Christian Democrats failed mainly because their candidates had tried to distance themselves from her line. “The majority of voters supported Merkel’s refugee policy,” says Gero Neugebauer, a political scientist at Free University Berlin.
重点词汇：
1 ambiguous 模棱两可的；含混不清的
2 vulnerable 脆弱的，易受…伤害的
3 stance 观点，态度，立场
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