
Donald Trump has said he would “love” to see a united(统一的;联合的) Ireland and that it “may as well(不如;倒不如) happen now”.
唐纳德·特朗普表示,他“乐见”爱尔兰实现统一,并称统一“不如现在就发生”。
The US president appeared to endorse(支持;赞同) the push for constitutional change(宪法变革) on the island at the start of a two-day visit to Ireland on Saturday. The unexpected intervention(干预;介入) prompted a swift rebuttal(反驳;驳斥) from the UK government and Northern Ireland’s unionist(统一派;联合派) leaders.
周六,这位美国总统在为期两天的爱尔兰之行伊始,似乎对这座岛上推动宪法变革的努力表示了支持。这一出人意料的干预迅速招致英国政府和北爱尔兰统一派领导人的反驳。
“I don’t want to cause any problems, but I will tell you, I’d love to see it unified,” Trump told reporters at joint press conference with the taoiseach(爱尔兰总理), Micheál Martin, in Dublin. “I think it would be a great feather in everybody’s cap if that happened.(我认为如果那成真,对每个人来说都是件值得骄傲的事。) You know what? The way I look at it, it’s going to happen eventually. It may as well happen now.”
“我不想惹任何麻烦,但我要告诉你们,我乐见它统一,”特朗普在都柏林与爱尔兰总理米歇尔·马丁举行的联合记者会上对记者说。“我认为如果那成真,对每个人来说都是件值得骄傲的事。你知道吗?依我看,它终将发生。不如现在就发生。”