每日英语(2019-03-13)

每日短语

An old hand（老手）

Describe someone who is skilled and experienced. It was a compliment.

EG1: Let's get mIke to solve our IT problem, shall we? He's an old hand at fixing computers.

每日名言

You will never wrong to do the right thing.

做正确的事情永远没错

每日新闻

Theresa May’s Brexit（脱欧） deal fails again

It was once rare（几乎很少） for British governments to lose big votes（失去大选） in the House of Commons（参议院）. Under Theresa May it is becoming a habit. On the evening of March 12th, for a second time, her proposed Brexit deal was roundly rejected（全面否决） by MPs（国会议员）. The margin（差距） of defeat was 149 votes—significantly less than the 230-vote defeat the deal suffered in January, but still a huge loss by historical standards.

The defeat came despite（尽管） a last-minute dash by Mrs. May to Strasbourg to agree changes to the terms of the Irish backstop（倒戈）, an insurance policy to avoid a hard Irish border（严加管控的爱尔兰边境） by keeping Britain in a customs union with the European Union. Many Brexiteers object to this because they fear being stuck in the backstop forever. Mrs. May came back with legally binding documents from the EU promising that this outcome was highly unlikely.

单词：hard border（a border between countries that is strongly controlled and protected by officials, police, or soldiers, rather than one where people are allowed to pass through easily with few controls:

eg: Introducing a hard border between the two countries could affect tourism.）