欧洲议会签署脱欧协议
近日，英国脱欧大业终于迈向了最后一步，欧洲议会751名议员表决通过了英国脱欧协议，英国将于1月31日23:00正式脱离欧盟，进入为期11个月的过渡期。
Brexit: What will change after Friday, 31 January?
BBC
The UK formally leaves the European Union (EU) at 23:00 on Friday, 31 January. But it will immediately enter an 11-month transition period. During the transition the UK will continue to obey EU rules and pay money to the EU. Most things will stay the same but there will be some changes:
1. UK MEPs lose their seats
Familiar faces such as Nigel Farage and Ann Widdecombe are among the UK's 73 MEPs who will automatically lose their seats in the European Parliament.
seat
表示“（议会、理事会、委员会等的）席位”，英文解释为“an official position as a member of a parliament, council, committee, etc.”如：a seat on the city council/in Parliament/in Congress 市政会/议会/国会席位，to win/lose a seat (= in an election) （在选举中）赢得/失去一个席位。
That's because, at the moment of Brexit, the UK will leave all of the EU's political institutions and agencies.
However, in addition to the UK following EU rules during the transition period, the European Court of Justice will continue to have the final say over legal disputes.
say
熟词僻义，表示“意见；决定权；发言权”，英文解释为“（the right to give）an opinion about something”举个🌰：
Keep quiet for a minute and let me have my say.
你不能安静一会儿让我发表一下意见吗？
The judge usually has the final say.
法官通常拥有最终的决定权。
2. No more EU summits
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will have to be specially invited if he wants to join other leaders at EU Council summits in the future.
British ministers will also no longer attend regular EU meetings that decide things such as fishing limits.
3. We will be hearing a lot about trade
The UK will be able to start talking to countries around the world about setting new rules for buying and selling goods and services.
It has not been allowed to hold formal trade negotiations with countries like the US and Australia while it remained an EU member. Brexit supporters argue that having the freedom to set its own trade policy will boost the UK's economy.
There's also a lot to be discussed with the EU. Agreeing a UK-EU trade deal is a top priority, so extra charges on goods and other trade barriers aren't needed when the transition ends. If any trade deals are reached, they won't be able to start until the transition period ends.
4. The UK's passports will change colour
Blue passports will be making a return, more than 30 years after they were replaced by the current burgundy design.
Announcing the change in 2017, then Immigration Minister, Brandon Lewis, praised the return to the "iconic" blue-and-gold design, first used in 1921.
burgundy
burgundy /ˈbɜːgəndɪ/ 表示“紫红色，深红色”，英文解释为“Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.”
The new colour will be phased in over a number of months, with all new passports issued in blue by the middle of the year. Existing burgundy passports will continue to be valid.
phase
作动词，表示“分阶段实施，逐步进行”，英文解释为“to introduce something in stages over a particular period of time”举个🌰：
Closure of the schools was phased over a three-year period.
这些学校的关闭是在三年期间逐步进行的。
5. Brexit coins
About three million commemorative 50p Brexit coins bearing the date "31 January" and the inscription: "Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations", will enter circulation on Friday.
The coin has received a mixed reaction, with some Remain supporters saying they will refuse to accept it.
commemorative
表示“纪念的”，英文解释为“intended to help people remember and respect an important person or event in the past”，如：commemorative stamps 纪念邮票。
bear
熟词僻义，表示“带有（标记或特征）”，英文解释为“If something bears a particular mark or characteristic, it has that mark or characteristic.”举个🌰：
The houses bear the marks of bullet holes. 房屋带有子弹的痕迹。
circulation
表示“（信息）流传，传播；（货币或商品）流通”，英文解释为“the process in which something such as information, money, or goods passes from one person to another”举个🌰：
Police have warned that there are a lot of fake £50 notes in circulation.
警方提醒说有大量50英镑面额的假钞在流通。
The government had planned to introduce a similar coin on 31 October, the date Brexit was previously meant to happen. However, those coins had to be melted down and recycled after the deadline was extended.
6. The UK's Brexit department shuts down
The team that handled the UK-EU negotiations and no-deal preparations will disband on Brexit day. The Department for Exiting the European Union was set up by former Prime Minister Theresa May in 2016. For the upcoming talks, the UK's negotiating team will be based in Downing Street.
disband
表示“解散，遣散”，英文解释为“to stop being a group”举个🌰：
She formed a group which disbanded a year later.
她曾经成立了一个团体，但一年后就解散了。
7. Germany won't extradite its citizens to the UK
It won't be possible for some suspected criminals to be brought back to the UK if they flee to Germany. Germany's constitution does not allow its citizens to be extradited, unless it's to another EU country.
extradite
表示“引渡”，英文解释为“to make someone return for trial to another country or state where they have been accused of doing something illegal”举个🌰：He will be extradited to Arizona from Florida.
他将被从佛罗里达州引渡到亚利桑那州。
"This exception cannot apply anymore after the UK has left EU," a spokesman from the German Federal Ministry of Justice told BBC News.
It's unclear if the same restrictions will apply to other countries. Slovenia, for example, says the situation is complicated, while the European Commission was unable to provide comment.
The UK Home Office says the European Arrest Warrant will continue to apply during the transition period. (That means Germany will be able to extradite non-German citizens.) However, it adds that if a country's laws prevent extradition to the UK it "will be expected to take over the trial or sentence of the person concerned".
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