欧盟外长打赌谁将入主白宫

欧洲人没办法参加美国11月的总统选举，但很多人希望他们能参加。
Europeans do not get to vote in the November U.S. presidential election, but many wish they did.
 
而且欧洲的外交部长们决定，至少也应当关起门来赌一赌。
Their foreign ministers decided that they would at least take a gamble behind closed doors.
 
在法国举行的关于大西洋两岸关系的讨论会上，英国外交大臣戴维-米利班德向欧盟同僚提议赌一赌11月4日的美国大选谁将获胜。
During informal talks in France, on transatlantic relations, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband asked his European Union counterparts to bet on who would win the November 4 election.
 
“他给大家传了一张纸...... 我写上了答案。我想大家都写了，对吧？”法国外交部长库什内在周六的一个新闻发布会上说道。
"He circulated a piece of paper ... I gave my answer. I think everybody did, didn't they?" French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said at a news conference on Saturday.
 
但他拒绝透露结果。
But he declined to disclose the result.
 
欧盟外交政策主管哈维尔-索拉纳表示他没有参加打赌，结果库什内喊道：“懦夫！”
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he had declined to enter a bet, prompting Kouchner to exclaim: "Coward!"
 
库什内说，米利班德的提议受到了大家的欢迎。因为，此次欧盟会议因为在处理俄罗斯的问题上有分歧，因此不时出现紧张局面。而这一提议缓和了会场气氛。
Kouchner said Miliband's initiative had been welcome because it relaxed the atmosphere at an EU meeting that was at times tense due to differences over dealing with Russia.
 
其他外长，包括奥地利外长普拉斯尼克和卢森堡外长阿瑟伯恩，表示这一打赌提议纯属玩笑。
Other foreign ministers, including Austria's Ursula Plassnik and Luxembourg's Jean Asselborn said the proposal to bet had only been a joke.