夏说英语新闻晨读 第512期:英国退欧终乐章

 本期内容：

Shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday evening, British MPs face a choice that will affect the country's 66 million citizens for many years to come. They will either vote to support Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, negotiated with the European Union, and set the country on its final road to leaving the EU on March 29. Or they will vote against it, leaving the UK Parliament, and the country, in the state of limbo¹ it has inhabited for two-and-a-half years. By every calculation and prediction, May will lose the vote.

years to come: 未来几年
Brexit: 英国退欧
negotiate: vt. 谈判
limbo: n. 尚待决定
in the state of limbo: 尚未决定的状态
inhabit: vt. 居住于，此处指处于……状态
calculation: n. 计算

1 limbo   

n.地狱的边缘；监狱

参考例句：

• His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。
• I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead.I felt as if I was in limbo.我不知道家人是生是死，感觉自己茫然无措。