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原文

Ever since the UK left the EU on 31 January, both sides have been talking about what the new rules should be.

The negotiations went to the wire, as the current arrangement ends on 31 December.

The deal contains new rules for how the UK and EU will live, work and trade together.

But we don't know a lot of the detail yet because the full document - expected to be well over 1,000 pages long - has not been released.

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)

1.go (down) to the wire 到最后一刻(俚語(yǔ)，源自賽馬比賽)

· wire n. (賽馬比賽跑道的)終點(diǎn)線

· They were absolutely evenly matched and went right to the wire.

他們旗鼓相當(dāng)，一直到最后一刻勝負(fù)才見分曉。

2. current arrangement 現(xiàn)有協(xié)議

3. deal n. 協(xié)議(arrangement)

· reach/strike a deal 達(dá)成協(xié)議

· With a deadline closing in fast, negotiators were racing to strike a deal.

截止日期近在眼前，談判者們競(jìng)相達(dá)成協(xié)議。

4. contain v. 包括，包含(include)

5. expect v. 預(yù)計(jì)，預(yù)料

6. well adv. 遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超過(guò)(＋介詞表強(qiáng)調(diào))

· do sth. well 某事做得很好

· The results are well above what we expected.

結(jié)果比我們預(yù)想的要好得多。

7. release v. 公開，公布

拓展

1. 現(xiàn)在完成進(jìn)行時(shí)have been doing sth.：表示動(dòng)作從某一時(shí)間開始，一直持續(xù)到現(xiàn)在，或者剛剛終止，或者可能仍然要繼續(xù)下去，強(qiáng)調(diào)動(dòng)作進(jìn)行的過(guò)程、和持續(xù)進(jìn)行的這么一個(gè)狀態(tài)。

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