Theresa May has set out a new role for a “global Britain” outside Europe’s single market in a landmark¹ speech outlining plans for the UK’s epochal EU exit.

特里萨·梅(Theresa May)为一个置身于欧洲单一市场以外的“全球的英国”设定了新的角色，她在里程碑式的演讲中概述了英国划时代退欧的计划。

The prime minister’s long-anticipated plan aimed to take the edges off a “hard Brexit” feared by business, but she vowed² to fight back if she failed to get a good deal from the EU’s remaining 27 members.

英国首相提出的外界期待已久的计划，旨在让商界担心的英国“硬退欧”减少一些锋芒，但她誓言，如果未能从欧盟其他27个成员国那里争取到好的协议，就会予以反击。

Mrs May said she would seek a “bold and ambitious free-trade agreement” with the EU and hoped to maintain partial membership of the its customs union, continued tariff-free trade and an “implementation³ phase” to avoid a Brexit cliff-edge.

梅表示，她将寻求与欧盟达成一个“大胆且雄心勃勃的自由贸易协定”，并希望保留关税联盟部分成员国身份，继续零关税贸易，以及安排一个“实施阶段”以避免退欧“跌落悬崖”。

“We are leaving the European Union but we are not leaving Europe,” she said.

她说：“我们将要离开欧盟，但我们不会离开欧洲。”

But her speech caused unease in Europe as Mrs May laced it with a threat to walk away if she could not secure a trade deal, instead turning Britain into an economy based on low taxes and loose regulation.

但梅的演讲在欧洲引起了不安，因为她在演讲中威胁称，如果争取不到贸易协定，她将会放弃谈判，转而把英国转型为一个低税收和宽松监管的经济体。

Donald Tusk⁴, European Council president, said it was a sad day but that the British prime minister had made a “more realistic announcement on Brexit”. He said the EU was now ready to start Brexit talks.

欧洲理事会(European Council)主席唐纳德?图斯克(Donald Tusk)表示，这是令人悲哀的一天，但英国首相作出了“有关英国退欧的更为现实的宣示”。他说，欧盟现在已经准备好启动英国退欧谈判。

The pound rose sharply as Mrs May gave her speech to European diplomats⁵ in London, as markets responded favourably⁶ to her generally positive tone and the end of the uncertainty⁷ that had surrounded London’s strategy since the shock vote to leave the EU in June.

在梅在伦敦向欧洲外交官发表演讲之际，英镑急剧飙升。对于英国首相总体积极的态度，以及自去年6月以来英国令人震惊地投票决定退出欧盟以来围绕伦敦战略的不确定性消失，市场反响积极。

After anxiety earlier in the week that Mrs May was going to announce a “hard Brexit”, the pound was on track for its best one-day gain against the dollar since 2008, rallying 2.9 per cent to just below $1.24.

在本周早些时候市场担忧梅将宣布“英国硬退欧”之后，英镑兑美元汇率创下2008年以来最大的单日涨幅，上涨2.9%，至1英镑兑略低于1.24美元。

“If the prime minister achieves all she has set out to achieve, she will fall short of hard Brexit that many in business and trade unions have feared,” said Sir Keir Starmer, Brexit spokesman for the opposition⁸ Labour party. The reaction in political, business and financial circles reflected a sense of relief that she now had a plan, despite the potential pitfalls⁹ and economic risks.

英国反对党工党的退欧事务发言人基尔?斯塔默爵士(Sir Keir Starmer)表示：“如果首相实现了她设定的所有目标，她就不会推动商界和工会许多人担心的硬退欧。”政界、商界和金融界的反应反映出人们对她现在终于有了计划感到如释重负，尽管依然存在潜在陷阱和经济风险。

The prime minister, who had warned during the EU referendum against leaving the single market, confirmed that Britain was pulling out of a trading area covering 500m people that her Conservative predecessor¹⁰ Margaret Thatcher¹¹ helped to build. Britain would instead return to its roots as a globally-oriented trading nation.

梅曾在公投前的拉票期间反对退出欧洲单一市场。她证实，英国将要退出其保守党前任首相玛格丽特?撒切尔(Margaret Thatcher)帮助创建的覆盖5亿人口的贸易区。英国将重新成为一个全球导向型的贸易国家。

Mrs May confirmed she would be prepared to walk away from Brexit negotiations¹², guaranteeing a hard departure. “I am clear that no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain,” she said.

梅证实，她将准备好放弃英国退欧谈判，这肯定会导致硬退欧。她说：“我很明确，对英国来说，没有协议也好过一个糟糕的协议。”

Acknowledging some voices in the EU wanted “a punitive¹³ deal”, she said: “That would be an act of calamitous¹⁴ self-harm for the countries of Europe and it would not be the act of a friend.”

她承认欧盟有些人希望与英国签署一个“惩罚性的协议”，她说：“对欧洲国家来说，这将是灾难性的自我伤害的做法，不是朋友应该有的作为。”

She added: “If we were excluded from the accessing the single market, we would be free to change the basis of Britain’s economic model.”

她补充称：“如果我们被挡在单一市场门外，我们将可以自由改变英国经济模式的基础。”

Mrs May also reminded her audience of the role Britain plays in European security, although Downing Street insisted she was not putting its willingness to share intelligence and defence capabilities¹⁵ on the negotiating table,

梅还向听众提醒英国在欧洲安全方面扮演的角色，尽管唐宁街坚称，她不会在英国分享情报和国防能力的意愿上讨价还价。