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A goal for the government
政府的一个目标
The British government could learn a thing or two from(从……学到一两招) the success of football’s Premier League, you said (“How a deflated(泄气的，瘪了的) Britain can bounce back(恢复，反弹)”, May 23rd). If Britain truly replicated the league it would mean that every major sovereign asset would be foreign-owned, over 75% of the top workforce would be imported and our domestic leadership class would be so thoroughly hollowed out that we have to hire overseas managers to run both our enterprise and our national teams.(如果英国真的复制这个联赛，那就意味着每一项主要主权资产都将由外资拥有，超过75%的高端劳动力要靠进口，我们的国内领导阶层将被彻底掏空，以至于我们不得不聘请海外经理来管理我们的企业和国家队。) That is not a strategy for national renewal; it is the definition of economic dependency.
你们曾说，英国政府可以从足球英超联赛的成功中学到一两招（《一个泄气的英国如何反弹》，5月23日）。如果英国真的复制这个联赛，那就意味着每一项主要主权资产都将由外资拥有，超过75%的高端劳动力要靠进口，我们的国内领导阶层将被彻底掏空，以至于我们不得不聘请海外经理来管理我们的企业和国家队。这不是国家复兴的战略，而是经济依赖的定义。
Furthermore, your dismissal(否定，不予考虑) of the new independent football regulator ignores the catastrophic failure of the league’s in-house self-regulation. The system is structurally broken. A lower-tier club like Southampton can be hit with a near-existential expulsion from the championship play-off final for “spying” offences, whereas an elite club like Chelsea escapes with a paltry fine for admitting to making secret payments to avoid player-transfer rules from 2011-18, before the new owners took over. Meanwhile, the entire football world holds its breath for the Manchester City financial-scandal verdict(曼城财务丑闻), amid predictions that, owing to the club’s geopolitical and Gulf-state connections, it will face nothing more than a slap on the wrist(轻微的处罚). Self-regulation in English football has simply resulted in one lenient rule for the global elite and a heavy hammer for the rest.
此外，你们对新的独立足球监管机构的否定，忽视了联赛内部自我监管的灾难性失败。这个体系在结构上已经崩溃。像南安普顿这样的低级别俱乐部可能因“间谍”行为被近乎宿命地逐出冠军附加赛决赛，而像切尔西这样的精英俱乐部却只因为承认在2011-18年间（在新老板接手前）为规避球员转出规则进行秘密支付而逃脱轻微的罚款。与此同时，整个足球界都在屏息等待曼城财务丑闻的裁决，由于该俱乐部的地缘政治和海湾国家关系，预测它将只会受到蜻蜓点水般的处罚。英格兰足球的自我监管结果无非是：对全球精英一套宽松规则，对其他人则重锤相向。
Benefits of free school meals
免费校餐的益处
On the buses
论巴士
To be Frank
关于弗兰克
The public’s choice
公众的选择
Taking a long, hard look
仔细观察