欧洲人若是想确保经济增长和生活方式不变，就必须折中他们的理想。要让他们明白这一点，还需要一段时间。
It may still take time before Europeans conclude that they must compromise their ideals in order to secure the growth needed to preserve what they can of their lifestyles.
如果人们真的明白这一点，他们会努力戒掉这个习惯，尤其是英国这个“欧洲胖子”。
If people really grasped that, they would try to kick the habit, particularly as Britain is the "fat man of Europe".
英国人本应以自嘲著称，但就连他们的幽默感也有限度，英国零售商杰拉尔德·拉特纳在付出一定的代价之后才明白了这一点。
The British are supposed to be famous for laughing at themselves, but even their sense of humour has a limit, as the British retailer Gerald Ratner found out to his cost.
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