BBC撒切尔夫人生平讣文: 罢工余波未平, 终遇他乡知音

Third term
第三任期

There were brutal clashes between pickets and police but the strike eventually collapsed the following March. Many mining communities never recovered from the dispute that hastened the decline of the coal industry.
罢工示威者和警察发生了激烈的冲突，但罢工最终在第二年的三月失败了。这一罢工加速了煤炭工业的衰退，很多矿业团体自此以后再也没有回复元气。

In Northern Ireland, Mrs Thatcher faced down IRA hunger strikers, though her hard-line approach infuriated even moderate nationalist opinion and critics claimed it drove many young Catholics towards the path of violence.
在北爱尔兰，撒切尔夫人挫败了北爱尔兰共和军的示威者，但她强硬的手段激怒比较温和的民族主义者。批评人士表示，这使得许多年轻的天主教徒走想了暴力之路。

Although she attempted to ease sectarian tensions, offering Dublin a role, peace efforts collapsed beneath the weight of Unionist opposition.
虽然她试图缓和宗派间的关系，给予都柏林一定的地位，但和平进程在联合主义者反对的重压之下最终流产。

In October 1984, an IRA bomb exploded in the Conservative conference hotel in Brighton. Five people died and many others, including cabinet minister Norman Tebbit, were seriously injured.
1984年10月，保守党正在布莱顿的一家酒店内开会，北爱共和军在这家酒店内引爆炸弹，导致5人死亡，包括内阁大臣谭百德在内的许多人受重伤。

Characteristically, the prime minister insisted on delivering a typically robust response in her keynote conference speech a few hours later.
数小时后撒切尔夫人在保守党大会上的致辞中对爆炸事件进行了特别强硬的回应：

"This attack has failed. All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail."
“这次袭击失败了。任何用恐怖主义破坏民主的企图都会失败。”

Her foreign policy was aimed at building up the profile of the UK abroad, something she believed had been allowed to decline under previous Labour administrations.
撒切尔夫人的外交政策旨在国际社会中建立英国的影响力。她认为在之前工党执政时期，英国的影响有所衰退。

She found a soulmate in the US president, Ronald Reagan, who shared many of her economic views, and she struck up an unlikely alliance with Mikhail Gorbachev, the reforming Soviet president. "We can do business together," she famously said.
撒切尔夫人找到了一个知音，那便是美国总统罗纳德•里根，他们在很多经济问题上都有共识。他还和前苏联改革派总统米哈伊尔•戈尔巴乔夫建立起一种似乎不太可能的盟友关系。她形容戈尔巴乔夫是“可以打交道的人。”

Labour, now led by Neil Kinnock, had still not recovered from years of in-fighting and Mrs Thatcher won an uNPRecedented third term at the 1987 general election.
工党在尼尔•基诺克的领导下仍然没有从多年的内耗中恢复，撒切尔夫人在1987年大选中获得了空前的胜利，开始了其第三任期。

One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.
撒切尔夫人蝉联后的首批政策之一是实施人头税，这是一种为本地服务征收的单一税。该税种基于个人，而非民众居住的房产的价值。