Rachel Reeves wants you to know she thinks Britain’s future belongs in Europe. She would also like to mention that she “absolutely” got all the big calls(重大决策) right as chancellor(财政大臣), even if there were a few things she would have done differently, and that John Healey’s budget last week would have been far harder for him if she hadn’t put in so much of the groundwork.
雷切尔·里夫斯想让你知道，她认为英国的未来属于欧洲。她还想提一句，作为财政大臣，她“绝对”把所有重大决策都做对了，尽管有几件事她会做得不一样；而且，如果她没有打下那么多基础，约翰·希利上周的预算对他而言会艰难得多。
The gist(要点，主旨) of her argument in last weekend’s Sunday papers – previewing a lecture at Harvard University today, reflecting on her time in power – was essentially that if anyone imagines Andy Burnham somehow invented pro-Europeanism(亲欧主义) and putting more money in people’s pockets(让民众更有钱), they can think again(他们得重新考虑).
她上周末在周日报纸上阐述的核心论点——为今天在哈佛大学的演讲做预告，回顾她的执政时光——本质上是：如果有人以为安迪·伯纳姆 somehow 发明了亲欧主义和让民众口袋更鼓的政策，那他们得重新想想了。
Reeves was clearly devastated(深受打击的) by losing a job she loved, and her return to the fray(重返纷争) after a summer of quietly licking her wounds(舔舐伤口，休整) has inevitably sparked speculation over whether she now seeks a comeback. But her timing is acute(敏锐的；恰到好处的) enough to suggest that this goes a little deeper, coming as it does days after a deliberately low-key(低调的) budget that left some Labour MPs wondering what happened to the much-hyped(大肆宣传的) end of neoliberalism(新自由主义).
里夫斯显然因失去她热爱的工作而深受打击，在默默舔舐伤口一个夏天后重返纷争，不可避免地引发了人们猜测她是否寻求复出。但她的时机把握得恰到好处，暗示事情远不止于此——毕竟这发生在一份刻意低调的预算案之后没几天，那份预算让一些工党议员纳闷：大肆宣传的新自由主义终结究竟怎么了？