【经济学人】托利党选举|2017.04.22|总第892期

WITH the Conservatives far ahead in the polls, Theresa May’s parliamentary party is likely to swell after the election. As well as winning seats from Labour, the Tories will need to replace a handful of their own MPs who are stepping down, such as George Osborne, a former chancellor. If the polls pan out, around 100 new Conservative MPs might soon be taking the oath of allegiance to the Crown.

由于保守党在民意调查中处于绝对领先地位，特蕾莎梅所在议会规模很可能在选举之后进一步壮大。除了从工党中赢得的席位，托利党还要填补一些因为像前财政大臣奥斯本等人辞职而增加的席位空缺。如果投票结果真是预料中的这样，那么就会有约100名新保守党议员加入执政党大军。

Mrs May hopes that this will provide her with a cushion of moderate MPs to dilute the influence of the three-dozen or so ultra-Brexiteers on her backbenches, making it easier for her to compromise in the Brexit negotiations. But will the new MPs be hard or soft Brexiteers?

特蕾莎女士希望这样的局面会冲淡其党内极端脱欧分子的影响，好让她顺利进行脱欧相关事宜。但是，这些新的议员到底是支持软脱欧还是支持强硬脱欧？

It is partly a question of which seats are up for grabs. In the 100 constituencies where the Conservatives need the smallest swing in order to win, support for Brexit is similar to that in the country as a whole.（读者试译句） Around a third of them delivered majorities for Remain. That calls for Tory candidates who are not too hardline on Brexit. In places like the Labour marginal of Brentford and Isleworth in south-west London (fourth on the Tory hit list) local Conservatives say they consider a candidate’s support for “social justice” to be as important as anything else. A Tory official in Ealing Central and Acton, another Remain-backing London constituency that is second on the hit list, wants a “Tory with a heart”.

其实，这可以看作一个争取席位的问题。 （期待您的翻译，明天会有针对这句话的长难句解析哟~） 大约有三分之一选区的多数得票是在留欧一方。这就需要那些支持软脱欧的托利党成员来采取行动。在诸如伦敦西南部的城市布伦福特德和艾尔沃斯是工党边缘地区（托利党黑名单上的地区），但是当地保守党称他们的投票是“社会正义的表现”，因此每一票都至关重要。一位来自伊灵中部和阿克顿（支持留欧选区，也是托利党黑名单上的地区）托利党官员表示：“希望托利党有良知”。

• hardline : adj.强硬的