Who can stop Nigel Farage? Which voters would actually dig out(翻出，找出) their ID and schlep(费力地走，拖沓地走) down to the polling booth to fight him?
谁能阻止奈杰尔·法拉奇？哪些选民会真的翻出身份证，拖着步子走到投票站去与他抗衡？
Over the past year, these two questions have come to shape(逐渐塑造) British politics. From Runcorn and Helsby to Caerphilly and Aberdeen South, via countless flimsy(粗制滥造的，站不住脚的) leaflets claiming “Only X can win here”, parties have jostled(争抢，推挤) for the part of his majesty’s opposition(国王陛下的反对党) to Reform. Those battles have given us Hannah Spencer and Andy Burnham; they have bulldozed(碾压，强行摧毁) Labour in Wales and forced Keir Starmer out of No 10(唐宁街10号，英国首相官邸).
在过去一年里，这两个问题逐渐塑造了英国政治。从朗科恩和赫尔斯比到卡菲利和阿伯丁南，经由无数声称“只有X能在这里获胜”的粗制滥造的传单，各政党争相扮演国王陛下反对党中对抗改革党的角色。这些战斗造就了汉娜·斯宾塞和安迪·伯纳姆；它们在威尔士碾压了工党，并迫使基尔·斯塔默离开了唐宁街10号。
Those questions hang over(笼罩，威胁) Britain even now, in what is easily Farage’s summer horribilis(可怕的（拉丁语）). He faces a shiny new prime minister and fronts a team that keeps scrapping with itself, while ahead looms a parliamentary investigation into whether he should have declared a £5m gift from a generous crypto billionaire from the other side of the world.(他面对光鲜的新首相，领导内讧的团队，前方还悬着议会调查。) Look at these turquoise(青绿色的（改革党代表色）) clowns, chortle(咯咯笑，得意地笑) the Westminster commentators. Check out that Burnham bounce(伯纳姆支持率反弹), marvel analysts.
这些问题至今仍笼罩着英国，此刻堪称法拉奇的“恐怖之夏”。他面对一位光鲜的新首相，领导着一个不断内讧的团队，而前方还悬着一项议会调查，调查他是否应申报一位来自世界另一端的慷慨的加密货币亿万富翁赠送的500万英镑礼物。“看看这些青绿色的傻瓜，”威斯敏斯特的评论员们咯咯笑道。“瞧瞧伯纳姆的反弹，”分析人士惊叹道。