VOA常速英语2019--爱尔兰与北爱尔兰边界问题成脱欧最大难题（在线收听）

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Friday if Great Britain were to request an extension to its Brexit deadline, he would consider it.

爱尔兰总理利奥·瓦拉德卡周五表示，如果英国要请求脱欧截止日期延期的话，他本人是会考虑这个请求的。

We get more from Francesca Lynagh of Reuters.

下面请听路透社记者弗朗西斯卡·琳娜发回的详细报道。

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday that if Great Britain were to request an extension to its Brexit deadline beyond October 31, he would consider it.

爱尔兰总理利奥·瓦拉德卡周五表示，如果英国想请求脱欧截止日期延期到10月31日之后的话，他本人是会考虑的。

Varadkar also said that the previous deal agreed with former Prime Minister Theresa May allowed for checks to take place in ports and airports and not along the Ireland-Northern Ireland land border, adding that the difficulty with what Johnson has put on the table is that it appears to create two borders - checks at the ports and airports and also near the land border.

瓦拉德卡还说，前首相特蕾莎·梅商定好的那项协议允许港口和机场进行检查，而不是在爱尔兰-北爱尔兰边界进行检查。瓦拉德卡补充说，约翰逊公开提出的方案存在一个困难——似乎要产生两个边界——港口和飞机场检查，以及边界附近的检查。

He said there was still a long way to go before we could back an agreement that carries the support of both the people of Northern Ireland and the people of the Republic of Ireland.

瓦拉德卡说，还要经历漫长的过程，我们才会支持一项协议，这项协议那时候才能获得北爱尔兰人民和爱尔兰共和国人民的同意。

Francesca Lynagh of Reuters.

感谢收听路透社记者弗朗西斯卡·琳娜发回的报道。