With the white cliffs of Dover in the background and the sun on his face, Andy Burnham asserted on August 2nd that “progress is being made” against the smugglers who transport asylum-seekers across the English Channel.(在多佛白色悬崖的背景下，阳光照在脸上，安迪·伯纳姆于8月2日断言，打击运送寻求庇护者穿越英吉利海峡的走私者“正在取得进展”。) More police officers are assigned to disrupting the trade, the new prime minister pointed out. And the number of migrants has fallen.
在多佛白色悬崖的映衬下，阳光洒在脸上，安迪·伯纳姆于8月2日宣称，在打击那些运送寻求庇护者穿越英吉利海峡的走私者方面“正在取得进展”。这位新首相指出，已调派更多警力来瓦解这一非法活动，而且移民数量已经下降。
It was a very different message from the one his predecessor(前任，前辈) usually delivered. Sir Keir Starmer’s statements about small boats were full of impotent fury(无力的愤怒) and words such as “evil” and “misery”. The less saturnine(阴郁的，忧郁的) Mr Burnham has a right to be cheerful, because the channel is indeed quieter than it was last year (see chart 1). “You have to go back to 2021 to find numbers as low as this,” says Peter Walsh of the Migration Observatory, a think-tank(智库，智囊团).
这与他的前任通常传达的信息截然不同。基尔·斯塔默爵士关于小船问题的声明充满了无力的愤怒，以及诸如“邪恶”和“苦难”之类的字眼。不那么阴郁的伯纳姆先生有理由感到高兴，因为海峡确实比去年安静了（见图表1）。“你得回到2021年才能找到这么低的数字，”智库移民观察站的彼得·沃尔什说。
Funding from Britain has enabled(使能够，使成为可能) France to put almost 1,000 officers on the coast. Increasingly they stop boats that are already in the water, with some migrants on board.(他们越来越多地拦截已经下水、载有移民的船只。) On the other side of the channel, the Home Office claims that British officers were responsible for 1,138 “disruptions(破坏，扰乱)” of smuggling operations in the first quarter of this year (through arrests, asset seizures(资产没收) and the like). It was the highest quarterly tally(记录，计数) for at least three years.
英国提供的资金使法国得以在海岸部署近1000名警察。他们越来越多地拦截已经下水、载有移民的船只。在海峡的另一边，英国内政部声称，今年第一季度，英国警方负责了1138起“破坏”走私行动的事件（通过逮捕、资产没收等）。这是至少三年来最高的季度记录。
