We need to work more cleverly, more creatively and more coherently as a UK Government fully committed to a modern, 21st century Union in the context of a stable and permanent devolution settlement to strengthen the glue that holds our Union together.

我们需要更聪明，更有创造力，更有条理地工作，因为英国政府完全致力于现代化，21世纪的联盟在稳定和永久的权力下放解决的背景下加强了将我们的联盟凝聚在一起的粘合剂。

Today, the only threat to devolution comes from those parties who want to end it by breaking up the United Kingdom.

如今，唯一会对权力下放造成威胁就是那些想要通权力下放来分裂整个联合王国的党派。

More devolution would help, with local politicians being responsible for taxes as well as spending.

如果由政客们负责税收和支出的话，政策的改变会有帮助。

The devolution settlement brought about by the Belfast Agreement was an example for the world in uniting people behind a shared future.

尔法斯特协定带来的权力下放解决方案是世界团结人民在共同未来背后的典范。

And as the parties in Northern Ireland continue in talks to restore that devolution, the hope and history surrounding it should be a powerful reminder of the imperative of not letting that progress slip away.

随着北爱尔兰各方继续谈判权力下放，关于它的希望和历史强烈地提醒人们，不要让这一成绩白费。

Successive Conservative and Conservative-led governments since 2010 have strengthened the devolution settlements.

自2010年来接任的保守党人和保守党政府继续扩大了权力的下放。

For those of us who believe in the Union, devolution is the accepted and permanent constitutional expression of the unique multinational character of our Union.

对于我们这些坚信联合的人来说，权力下放是普遍公认的，也是永恒持久的，以宪法的形式对我们联合王国独特的、多民族特征的体现。

And this devolution is morphing into a death spiral.

而这种权力下放正在演变成一种死亡螺旋。

But there needs to be a distance with devolution, which is their bed.

但在下放权力的问题上需要保持一定的距离，这是他们的专长。

Because, you know, he did the minimum wage, the Conservative Party was against that, you know, for instance, and devolution and lots of other things like that.

因为，你知道的，他推行了最低工资标准，保守党反对这个举措，你知道的，比如还有下放权力和其他很多类似的事情。

And he would do it specifically by playing to the right-wing parties that are sympathetic to the devolution of power from the EU to national governments.

他将通迎合那些支持将权力从欧盟转移到各国政府的右翼政党来具体实施这一点。

Wow, so one of the logical likely pathways of devolution, you talked about the golden calf, is like sequential appeal to sequential hedonistic demands.

哇， 所以逻辑上可能的退化路径之一，你提到的金牛犊象征， 就像是对连续的享乐需求的依次迎合。

The author a distinguished journalist makes a case for enhanced devolution powerfully enlisting and evoking his own childhood in a Scottish fishing village.

作者是一位杰出的记者，他有力地主张增强分权，并通讲述自己在苏格兰一个渔村的童年经历来阐述这一观点。

Another aspect of it is what's called " devolution" — reducing — moving governmental power from the Federal to the State level.

另一方面是所谓的“权力下放”——即将政府权力从联邦转移到州级。

We've been over this kind of this trajectory, this progression, this evolution or devolution many times, but it applies here as well.

我们已经多次看到这种轨迹、这种进程、这种演变或退化，但这里同样适用。

But I honestly think that county councils and more devolution of power to a local level, they're close to the people.

但说实话， 我认为县议会和更多权力的下放，让权力更接近民众。

A regional assembly was created following the devolution of power.

权力下放后成立了一个地区议会。

We have a sort of year zero approach, as if nothing was ever done before devolution.

我们有一种从零开始的做法，仿佛公投前什么也没做。

It's been 25 years since the 1997 Scottish devolution referendum, which led to the creation of the devolved Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

自1997年苏格兰权力下放公投以来已有25年，这次公投导致爱丁堡设立的苏格兰议会成立。

And the devolution that it brings a job just wouldn't leave him time to practice his true calling.

工作的分忧会使他 不能从事真正的使命。