TEN YEARS and six prime ministers after voting to quit the European Union, Britain has, to paraphrase Dean Acheson(① 迪安·艾奇逊（Dean Acheso...), lost a continent but not yet found a role. The referendum on June 23rd 2016, in which Britons voted for Brexit by 52% to 48%, has left them more divided, less influential and poorer than they would otherwise have been. The promise that Britain would “take back control(夺回控制权)” was a cruel joke. The country has been buffeted(打击，冲击) by global events. Brexiteers(脱欧支持者) promised immigration would fall, but under Boris Johnson it soared.
在投票脱离欧盟十年后、历经六位首相之际，英国借用迪安·艾奇逊的话来说，是失去了一片大陆却尚未找到角色。2016年6月23日的公投中，英国人52%对48%投票支持脱欧，这使他们比原本更加分裂、影响力更小、更加贫穷。英国将“夺回控制权”的承诺是一个残酷的笑话。该国一直受到全球事件的冲击。脱欧派曾承诺移民将减少，但在鲍里斯·约翰逊领导下，移民人数飙升。
The next ten years should be brighter, but first Britons must accept the big lesson from Brexit: that trying to lay all their country’s woes on a single cause(将所有国家困境归咎于一个原因) is magical thinking(魔幻思维，不切实际的幻想) which only makes everything worse. They must not be tempted to make the same mistake all over again by imagining that rejoining the European Union is the answer to all their problems.
未来十年应该会更光明，但首先英国人必须接受脱欧的重大教训：试图将所有国家困境归咎于单一原因是魔幻思维，只会让一切变得更糟。他们决不能重蹈覆辙，幻想重新加入欧盟就能解决所有问题。
Instead, national renewal means grappling with the many reasons why Britain is failing to live up to its potential. Policymaking is adrift(漂流，漫无目的), the state is inefficient and the private sector is weighed down by(被...压垮，受...拖累) taxes and regulation. The country has mustered the leadership for a fresh start before, in the post-1945 invention of the welfare state and the reinvigoration under Margaret Thatcher. It must do so again.
相反，国家复兴意味着要应对英国未能发挥潜力的众多原因。政策制定飘忽不定，国家效率低下，私营部门被税收和监管压得喘不过气。这个国家曾在1945年后创造福利国家，在玛格丽特·撒切尔领导下重振旗鼓，展现了领导力以实现新的开端。它必须再次做到。
The ten-year itch
十年之痒