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1、If only it were that easy不當(dāng)家不知柴米貴，不生孩子不知肚子痛 不當(dāng)家不知柴米貴，不生孩子不知肚子痛American comments about Turkey betray a lack of understanding of the European Union 美國對歐盟拒絕接納土耳其的指責(zé)紛紛揚(yáng)揚(yáng)，反而暴露出其對歐盟缺乏理解 美國對歐盟拒絕接納土耳其的指責(zé)紛紛揚(yáng)揚(yáng)，反而暴露出其對歐盟缺乏理解Jun 17t

2、h 2010 SHUT up, please, you are not helping. That, with respect, would be Charlemagne’s advice to America’s foreign-policy establishment, as its big guns nag the European Union into admitting Turkey swiftly, so as to anc

3、hor Turks to “the West”.閉嘴吧，你們是在幫倒忙。這就是查理曼對美國外交當(dāng)局的建議，但絕無不敬之意。美國外交界的大人物們喋喋不休，催促歐盟出于將土耳其拴在西方陣營的目的迅速接納土耳其入盟。It is no pleasure to offer such advice. Successive American governments have been right to say that EU membership f

4、or Turkey—a dynamic, officially secular, youthful Muslim nation, sitting astride vital trade and energy routes—is in the strategic interests of Europe. The very process of negotiating membership has promoted reform insid

5、e Turkey. Americans are right that such advances are imperilled when leaders like Nicolas Sarkozy of France say Turks have no place in the EU. Americans are also right to point out that EU leaders have already pledged to

6、 admit Turkey if it meets a long list of legal requirements. 查理曼提出如此建議實(shí)為不得已之策。土耳其橫跨歐亞大陸，是重要的貿(mào)易和能源通道，Some of these gripes have a point. EU leaders like Mr Sarkozy and Angela Merkel of Germany are playing to their electora

7、l bases when they question Turkey’s fitness to join, and many of their core supporters think Turks too foreign (or too Muslim) for the club. But the Turkey question cannot be reduced to racism.美國所發(fā)出的這些抱怨也不是全無道理。像法國的薩科齊和德

8、國的默克爾這樣一些歐盟領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人正在同他們的選民進(jìn)行著博弈，而這些選民對土耳其加入歐盟是否合適抱有疑問，在他們的核心支持者中有許多人認(rèn)為土耳其人與歐洲人差異太大（或者說他們過于穆斯林化） 。但是，土耳其的問題不能簡單歸結(jié)為種族主義。For one thing, in urging Europe to fight any eastward drift in Turkish diplomacy, Mr Gates risks conflatin

9、g EU membership with support for American policy in the Middle East. After all, several European nations strongly dislike the current Israeli government and are unconvinced by sanctions on Iran: the West is a complex blo

10、ck. Talk of immediate membership is nonsense: even Turkey’s friends know it will take at least ten years. Some areas are stalemated: the EU has frozen several chapters of the talks, and Turkey refuses to recognise Cyprus

11、, an EU member state. 為敦促歐洲阻止土耳其“向東轉(zhuǎn)”的外交趨勢，蓋茨先生首先要冒將歐盟成員資格問題與支持美國的中東政策混為一談的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。畢竟，有幾個(gè)歐洲國家非常反感以色列現(xiàn)政府，對伊朗的制裁也感到頗不以為然。西方國家就是這樣一個(gè)復(fù)雜的組合體。立即給與土耳其歐盟成員國資格被認(rèn)為是無稽之談，甚至土耳其的友好國家也都認(rèn)為這將需要至少 10 年的時(shí)間才行。在某些領(lǐng)域談判還陷入僵局，歐盟凍結(jié)了好幾個(gè)談判回合。土耳其拒絕承認(rèn)塞浦

12、路斯，而塞浦路斯是歐盟成員國。It is not only xenophobes who see the prospect of EU membership for Turkey as daunting. Joining today’s union is not like entering the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). American pundits might li

13、ke to try the following two thought experiments, based on real-life EU instruments, and imagine how, with Mexico playing the part of Turkey, they would sell either to American voters.不僅是排外者對土耳其入盟的前景感到害怕。加入現(xiàn)今的歐盟可不像加入北美自由貿(mào)

14、易協(xié)定（NAFTA）那樣簡單。美國學(xué)者們不妨在基于現(xiàn)實(shí)歐盟法律的條件下參與以下兩個(gè)思維實(shí)驗(yàn)，想像一下墨西哥如果扮演了土耳其的角色，這將給美國選民帶來如下兩個(gè)后果。First, imagine a NAFTA single market, with legal powers to ban congressional aid intended to stop a Detroit car factory moving to Mexico. I

15、f Congress persisted, NAFTA competition authorities could send the American government to be fined by Mexican, American and Canadian judges at the NAFTA court. The EU already does this.首先，想像一下北美自由貿(mào)易協(xié)定產(chǎn)生的單一市場，如果底特律的汽車工廠要遷