Given that Britain’s politics are quite a sizeable(相当大的) reason that we do so badly in Eurovision: here’s something that will definitely, absolutely, categorically(绝对地、断然地) help us do better in the competition … interference(干预、干涉) from MPs.
既然英国政治是我们欧洲歌唱大赛表现如此糟糕的一个重要原因，那么下面这件事肯定、绝对、百分之百能帮我们在比赛中表现得更好……那就是议员的干预。
Digital, culture, media and sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage has announced that MPs will scrutinise the UK’s reliable failure in the competition to see where we’re going wrong, with a hearing to be held over the coming months.(数字、文化、媒体和体育委员会主席卡罗琳·迪尼纳奇宣布，议员们将审查英国在比赛中一贯的失败表现，以查明我们哪里出了问题，并将在未来几个月举行听证会。) The answers surely don’t take that long to work out.
数字、文化、媒体和体育委员会主席卡罗琳·迪尼纳奇宣布，议员们将审查英国在比赛中一贯的失败表现，以查明我们哪里出了问题，并将在未来几个月举行听证会。答案肯定用不了那么久就能想出来。
“We want to get to the bottom of(弄清……的真相) who chooses our entrant(参赛者),” Dinenage said. Currently that’s the BBC, with the assistance of a label or management company. Is our embarrassing misfortune down to(归因于) “bad song choice, weak performance or something else”, she asked. Can you hear three red cherries dinging(三颗红樱桃叮当作响——指游戏节目中的错误提示音)? Our songs are embarrassing, the humdrum(平淡无奇的) performances indicative(表明……的) of a nation who think we’re too good for Eurovision high camp(夸张做作的风格), and the “something else” is the lingering whiff of Brexit(脱欧挥之不去的气息).
“我们想弄清楚到底是谁选出了我们的参赛者，”迪尼纳奇说。目前是英国广播公司（BBC）在选，唱片公司或经纪公司协助。她问道，我们这种令人难堪的霉运，究竟是因为“选歌不当、表演乏力，还是另有原因”？你能听到三颗红樱桃叮当作响吗？我们的歌曲令人难堪，平淡无奇的表演表明这个国家自认为不屑于欧洲歌唱大赛的夸张做派，而“另有原因”则是脱欧挥之不去的气味。