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| BBC News with Iain Purdon. |
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BBC新闻。 |
| The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that he intends to stand down as leader of the Labour Party within months. |
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英国首相戈登·布朗宣布，他将在几个月之内辞去工党领袖的职务。 |
| Mr Brown said he had no desire to stay in his post longer than was needed to form a stable government following last week's inconclusive general election. |
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布朗表示，上周没有结果的大选之后，他无意担任该职务超过组建稳定的政府所需的时间。 |
| "I therefore intend to ask the Labour Party to set in train the processes needed for its own leadership election. |
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“所以，我希望工党开启进行党内领袖选举所需的程序。 |
| I would hope that it would be completed in time for the new leader to be in post by the time of the Labour Party conference. |
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我希望该程序能够及时完成，以便工党会议之前新的领袖能够就职。 |
| I will play no part in that contest, I will back no individual candidate." |
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我不会参与竞争，不会支持任何候选人。” |
| Mr Brown also said the Labour was opening formal talks with the Liberal Democrats, |
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布朗还表示，工党正与自民党展开正式对话。 |
| who have been negotiating with the Conservative Party about a possible coalition. |
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自民党正在与保守党商讨联合组阁的问题。 |
| The Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg said Mr Brown's announcement could be important for a smooth transition towards a new government. |
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自民党领袖克莱格表示，布朗的宣布对于顺利过渡到新政府是非常重要的。 |
| A leading Conservative William Hague said the Liberal Democrats would be making a great mistake if they tried to construct the government with Labour, |
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前保守党领袖黑格表示，如果自民党试图与工党组建联合政府，他们将铸成大错， |
| because it would not be stable. He said that his party was willing to give ground on a key Liberal Democrat demand and move towards a more representative voting system. |
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因为这样的政府是不会稳定的。他说，保守党在自民党关键的要求方面将作出让步，建立更加有代表性的投票体系。 |
| "In the interests of trying to create a stable, secure government, we will go the extra mile, and we will offer to the Liberal Democrats, |
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“为了组建稳定，安全的政府，我们将作出进一步的努力，在联合政府中， |
| in a coalition government, the holding of a referendum on the Alternative Vote system, |
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我们将向自民党提议在选择性投票制的基础上举行全民公决， |
| so that the people of this country can decide what the best electoral system is for the future." |
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这样，英国民众就可以决定未来最好的选举制度。” |
| More than a hundred people have been killed across Iraq in the bloodiest day of the year so far. |
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在今年以来最为血腥的一天，100 多人在伊拉克遇难。 |
| The worst violence was in the central town of Hilla where at least 45 people died when three bombs exploded near a clothing factory. |
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最残忍的暴力发生在中部小镇希拉，三枚炸弹在一座制衣厂附近爆炸，造成至少45 人死亡。 |
| Elsewhere seven people were killed by a car bomb in the southern city of Basra and seven security personnel were shot dead in apparently coordinated attacks in Bagdad. |
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在其他地方，南部城市巴士拉，7人因一起汽车炸弹爆炸死亡。在巴格达发生的很明显有组织的袭击中，7 名安全人员被枪杀。 |
