A friend of mine — long separated from his wife and intent on a new life — told me that his stomach still turned over, when he opened the letter formally starting divorce proceedings. It will feel a bit like that when Britain invokes Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, by the end of this month. The legal process of divorce from the EU will have begun and Brexit will suddenly feel real.
我有一个朋友，他跟妻子已分居很久，也已打定主意开始新生活。但他告诉我，在拆开正式启动离婚程序的信件那一刻，他的胃仍然猛地抽动了一下。本月底英国触发《里斯本条约》(Lisbon treaty)第50条时的感觉会跟那有点像。届时跟欧盟“离婚”的法律程序将正式启动，英国退欧会突然感觉真实起来。
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