John Healey’s critics on the right and left(左右两派) accused him of dodging(回避) the big questions in his first budget. The chancellor failed to announce reforms that might tackle some of Britain’s chronic problems, they say.(他们称，这位财政大臣未能宣布可能解决英国一些长期问题的改革措施。)
左右两派的批评者都指责约翰·希利在首次预算中回避了重大问题。他们称，这位财政大臣未能宣布可能解决英国一些长期问题的改革措施。
Healey’s scatter-gun(散弹枪式的、杂乱的) budget, as the Resolution Foundation(英国独立智库，专注生活水平研究) called it, was more about politics than economics(更多是政治而非经济), and unapologetically(毫不掩饰地) so.
正如决议基金会所言，希利的预算如同“散弹枪”般杂乱无章，更多是政治考量而非经济考量，而且对此毫不掩饰。
Housing was one area of policy that took up a considerable chunk(相当大的部分) of his speech. And yet the measures amounted to very little, if a test of his policy changes was to ask how different will the UK be at the next election.(然而，如果检验其政策变化的标准是问：到下届大选时英国会有多大不同？那么这些措施可谓微不足道。) Or, as that date is only two and a half years away, 10 years from now.
住房是他演讲中占据相当大篇幅的政策领域之一。然而，如果检验其政策变化的标准是问：到下届大选时英国会有多大不同？或者，由于大选仅剩两年半，十年后又会怎样？那么这些措施可谓微不足道。