Only a few months ago, in the spring, there was a sense of giddy(令人目眩的；头晕的) possibility about the Greens. Zack Polanski’s radical(激进的；根本的) new leadership felt fresh and dynamic, especially compared with those of the other parties. Former Labour supporters, in particular, were switching to the Greens in huge numbers(大批地；大量地), Green candidates were winning across the country, and the party was second behind Reform UK(英国改革党，右翼民粹政党) in some national polls.
就在几个月前的春天，绿党还笼罩在一种令人目眩的可能性之中。扎克·波拉斯基激进的新领导层显得清新而富有活力，与其他政党的领导人相比尤其如此。尤其是前工党支持者，正大批转投绿党；绿党候选人在全国各地接连获胜；在一些全国性民调中，绿党已位居改革英国党之后排名第二。
Like Reform, the Green party presented itself as a revolt against a failed status quo(对失败现状的反叛). Unlike Reform, the Greens’ urgent stance on the climate crisis gave them a potent(强有力的；有说服力的) moral authority: even many people who did not support them believed that the Greens were right about the most universal(普遍的；全人类共有的) issue.
与改革英国党一样，绿党把自己包装成对失败现状的反叛。但与改革英国党不同的是，绿党在气候危机上的紧迫立场赋予了他们强大的道德权威：即便许多并不支持绿党的人，也认为绿党在这个最具普遍性的问题上是对的。
After an unprecedentedly(前所未有地) hot summer, some of that authority and momentum remains. Last week, at the party’s bustling(熙熙攘攘的；繁忙的) conference in Brighton, impressive-sounding statistics(听起来很唬人的统计数据) about the party’s growth this year – along with modern icons of Green success, such as Hannah Spencer, victor of February’s Gorton and Denton byelection – were presented to determinedly cheering delegate(代表；会议代表)s in crammed(挤满的；塞满的) halls.
在经历了前所未有的酷暑之后，那份权威和势头仍有部分留存。上周，在布莱顿热闹的党代会上，关于绿党今年增长的、听起来令人印象深刻的统计数据——连同绿党成功的当代偶像，如二月戈顿和登顿补选获胜者汉娜·斯宾塞——被呈现在挤满会场、坚定欢呼的代表面前。