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Former UK PM David Cameron has stood down as an MP, triggering a by-election in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney.前英国首相大卫·卡梅隆辞去议员职务，促使牛津郡威特尼选区举行递补选举。
Mr Cameron, 49, who resigned as prime minister after June's EU referendum, said he did not want to be a "distraction" for new PM Theresa May.49岁的卡梅隆先生于6月英国脱欧公投后辞去首相职务，（这次）他表示自己不想“干扰”新首相特丽莎·梅。
He said Mrs May had "got off to a cracking start", while she praised his "great strides" on social reform.他说，梅夫人“创造了一个精彩的开端”，而梅夫人也称赞了卡梅隆在社会变革上为英国带来的“巨大发展”。
Speaking in his constituency, he said it had been a "great honour" to be an MP for the area, but said it would be difficult for him to remain on the backbenches without becoming "a big distraction and a big diversion" from the work of the new government.他在选区的演讲中表示，能够成为这个地区的议员是“莫大的荣幸”，但是，对他来说，继续作为普通议员而不成为新政府工作中的“巨大干扰”会有些困难。
He denied his announcement was related to the government's moves towards allowing new grammar schools, a policy he rejected as PM.他否认了自己辞职与政府允许建立新文法学校的政策有关，在他任职首相期间，他曾驳回过这个政策。
He said the timing was coincidental, adding that there were "many good things" in the proposed education reforms.他表示这只是一个巧合，并补充道，在（新政府）提出的教育改革中还是有“许多不错的建议”的。
"Obviously I'm going to have my own views about different issues," he said.他说，“显然，对于不同的问题，我会有自己的看法。”
"People would know that and that's really the point. As a former prime minister it is very difficult, I think, to sit as a backbencher and not be an enormous diversion and distraction from what the government is doing."“大家会明白这很关键。我认为，作为前首相，去当一名普通议员，而不给新政府的工作带来巨大干扰是非常困难的。”
Friends say that David Cameron's decision has not been made in a fit of pique, he has not merely flounced out because he doesn't like what his successor is doing.朋友们说，大卫·卡梅隆不是因为一时赌气而做出这个决定，他不是仅仅因为不喜欢继任者的做法就突然辞职。
But there was a "very real danger", particularly because he does not support the UK leaving the European Union, that anything he said, any comment he made could "drive a real wedge" between him and the government which could make life harder for Theresa May.但（他继续留任的话）会有“非常现实的威胁”，尤其是他不支持英国脱欧，因此他说的任何话、发表的任何评论都有可能在他和政府之间“引起真正的隔阂”，这会使特丽莎·梅很难办。
It is not that surprising that the man who used to be in charge has decided to go.这位曾经执政的男人作出这个决定并不那么令人惊讶。
Ex-Chancellor George Osborne said he was sorry his "great friend" was stepping down.前财政大臣乔治·奥斯本表示，他的“知己”要退出政坛，他觉得很遗憾。
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发表于 2016-9-20 18:51:44