However sunny your disposition(性格；性情), it wears you down(使你疲惫不堪), 10 straight years of being asked to accept facts about Brexit that aren’t true: 52% as an “overwhelming majority(压倒性多数)”; a flaky(不可靠的；脆弱的), half-baked(考虑不周的；半生不熟的) referendum as the endpoint of purest democracy; the severance(切断；割裂) of a complicated trading and geopolitical(地缘政治的) relationship that took decades to build as the dawn of a new prosperity(新繁荣的开端). All such nonsense, all delivered with such conviction, by such a wide variety of sources, many of them self-describing as impartial, that in the end you just surrender to it.(所有这些胡言乱语，都以如此坚定的信念、来自如此众多的来源传达给你，其中许多还自称公正，最终你只能屈服。) None of it magically becomes true, don’t be silly. It’s more that you come to accept that everyone else talks nonsense now.
无论你性格多么开朗，连续十年被要求接受关于脱欧的不实说法，也会让你疲惫不堪：52%被说成“压倒性多数”；一场脆弱且考虑不周的全民公投被当作最纯粹民主的终点；将历经数十年建立的复杂贸易和地缘政治关系割裂，说成新繁荣的开端。所有这些胡言乱语，都以如此坚定的信念、来自如此众多的来源传达给你，其中许多还自称公正，最终你只能屈服。这些说法不会神奇地变成真的，别傻了。更确切地说，你逐渐接受了一个现实：现在每个人都在胡说八道。
Nobody get too excited – just because Andy Burnham(安迪·伯纳姆，英国工党政治家) has reopened a debate that upside-down world said couldn’t be reopened, it doesn’t mean the UK is on the brink of(濒临；即将) coming to its senses(恢复理智). I have no idea what’s going to happen; all I can say for certain is that times have changed more than I realised. The pro-Brexit crew(脱欧派阵营) have updated their arguments. They no longer say leaving the EU will bring untold(无数的；难以估量的) riches, and they never even namecheck(点名提及) all the control we were meant to have taken back. They rarely mention any immigration benefits because that unwieldy(棘手的；笨重的) issue now has a life of its own(自行发展；不受控制) – or, to put that more simply, it turns out that in or out of the European Union, we can still fight about our borders like rats in a sack(像麻袋里的老鼠一样（混乱争吵）).
大家别太激动——安迪·伯纳姆重新开启了一场被颠倒的世界宣称不可能重启的辩论，但这并不意味着英国即将恢复理智。我不知道会发生什么；我唯一能确定的是，时代的变化比我意识到的更大。脱欧派已经更新了他们的论点。他们不再说脱欧会带来无尽的财富，甚至从不提及我们本应收回的所有控制权。他们很少提到移民方面的好处，因为这个棘手的问题现在有了自己的生命——或者更简单地说，事实证明，无论是否留在欧盟，我们仍然可以像麻袋里的老鼠一样为边界问题争吵不休。
Instead, they have a new narrative(叙事；说法), and these are its contours(轮廓；特征). Remain sympathisers(同情者；支持者) are apparently very divided. Some of us want freedom of movement(人员自由流动), especially for young people, while others of us just want our trading relationships rebuilt with our nearest gigantic market. Different remainers again wish for greater collaboration(合作) on security and defence with nations who share our values. Those who can be trusted, for example, to oppose Vladimir Putin and his war of aggression, rather than opposing him on a Tuesday and calling him a great guy by Thursday.(比如，那些可以被信任反对弗拉基米尔·普京及其侵略战争的人，而不是周二反对他、周四又称他为好人的人。) Some of us just miss the days when we made coherent(连贯的；一致的), continent-wide decisions about the climate emergency. Given that degrees of global heating observe no nationality and pick no favourites, given that people who believe in scientific evidence tend to get on quite well together, however stark(严峻的；鲜明的) that evidence is, it would be quite relaxing to club together(凑钱；抱团), no?
相反，他们有了新的叙事，其轮廓如下。留欧同情者显然分歧严重。我们中有些人希望人员自由流动，尤其是对年轻人；另一些人只想与最近的巨大市场重建贸易关系。不同的留欧派还希望与价值观相同的国家在安全和防务上加强合作。比如，那些可以被信任反对弗拉基米尔·普京及其侵略战争的人，而不是周二反对他、周四又称他为好人的人。我们中有些人只是怀念那些日子：我们就气候紧急状况做出连贯的、全欧洲范围的决定。鉴于全球变暖的程度不分国籍、不偏袒任何人，鉴于相信科学证据的人往往相处得很好，无论证据多么严峻，大家抱团岂不是让人松一口气？