对欧洲来说，将谈判焦点转向临时性协定 — — 也许可以以欧盟与挪威的关系作为样板 — — 只不过是略微失去点颜面：欧盟领导人不得不承认他们最初安排的英国退欧谈判顺序必须重新调整。
For Europe, shifting the focus of negotiations to a temporary agreement, probably modeled on the EU’s relationship with Norway, would involve only a small loss of face: EU leaders would have to concede that the sequencing they originally proposed for the Brexit talks had to be rejigged.