Europe’s focus turned nervously to Sweden on Sunday, after an explosive(爆炸性的；引起轰动的) election in Germany just a week earlier placed a far-right party, officially classed as “extremist”, on the brink of power(处于权力的边缘) in a German state for the first time since the Nazi era. A party with neo-Nazi roots has been pulling the government’s strings(幕后操纵政府) in Sweden for the last four years. Would the country’s general election put the far right formally in government? Or would enough Swedes opt for a gear change(选择换挡、改变方向), having seen the Sweden Democrats(瑞典民主党：极右翼政党，反移民)’ hardline(强硬的、不妥协的) (some would say poisonous(有毒的；恶毒的)) agenda in action?
周日，欧洲的目光紧张地转向瑞典。就在一周前，德国一场爆炸性选举将官方列为“极端主义”的极右翼政党推到了一个德国州权力的边缘，这是纳粹时代以来的首次。过去四年，一个有着新纳粹根源的政党一直在瑞典幕后操纵政府。这个国家的大选是否会让极右翼正式进入政府？还是说，足够多的瑞典人在目睹了瑞典民主党的强硬（有人会说是有毒）议程付诸实践后，会选择换挡？
Votes were still being counted on Wednesday but it was immediately clear that the far-right Sweden Democrats had suffered a setback(挫折；倒退); their first loss of support among voters since entering parliament for the first time 16 years ago. The party slipped from being the country’s second biggest party to its third.
周三选票仍在统计中，但已经可以立即看出，极右翼的瑞典民主党遭遇了挫折；这是该党 16 年前首次进入议会以来，选民支持率首次下滑。该党从全国第二大党滑落至第三大党。
The centre-left Social Democrats appear poised(准备就绪的；蓄势待发的) for a return to power, although it could take months for their leader, Magdalena Andersson(瑞典社会民主党领袖，前首相), to form a coalition(组建联合政府). Strong results for the left and green parties gave her left bloc a wafer-thin, three-seat majority.
中左翼的社会民主党似乎准备重新执政，尽管其领导人玛格达莱娜·安德松可能需要数月才能组建联合政府。左翼和绿党的强劲表现，让她的左翼阵营获得了仅多三席的微弱多数。