【正文】 is one thing that cuts through all of this – one thing that runs through everything she did – it was her lionhearted love for this country,” he said.“但如果說有一個(gè)中心貫穿著她的一生——在她所做的每一件事中都體現(xiàn)出來，那就是她對這個(gè)國家的無比熱愛?！盤resident Barack Obama said: “The world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend.”美國總統(tǒng)巴拉克?奧巴馬(Barack Obama)表示：“世界失去了一位積極倡導(dǎo)自由的領(lǐng)袖，美國失去了一位真正的朋友。”The prime minister’s office announced that parliament would be recalled for a special session on Wednesday to pay tribute to funeral will be held at the end of next week at St Paul’s ，周三議會將召開一次特別會議，向撒切爾致哀。她的葬禮將于下周末在倫敦圣保羅大教堂(St Paul39。s Cathedral)舉行。She will have a “full ceremonial funeral” with military honours as was afforded to the Queen Mother and Lady British flag flew at half mast over Parliament to honour Thatcher as all UK political parties suspended campaigning for the local elections on May “禮儀葬禮”，禮遇同王太后和戴安娜一樣。英國國會降半旗向撒切爾致哀，各政黨暫停針對5月2日地方選舉的競選活動。Thatcher, who transformed Britain with her freemarket revolution, had been in poor health since suffering minor strokes in ，撒切爾的健康狀況一直很差。她曾以自己的自由市場革命改變了英國的面貌。Statesmen past and present shared their memories of the woman dubbed the “Iron Lady”.Tony Blair, the second longestserving postwar prime minister, called her “a towering political figure”.“Very few leaders get to change not only the political landscape of their country but of the was such a global impact was vast.”已卸任和在任的政治家們共同悼念有“鐵娘子”綽號的撒切爾。英國戰(zhàn)后任期第二長的首相托尼布萊爾(Tony Blair)稱撒切爾為“一位偉大的政治人物?！薄安坏淖儽緡伟鎴D、還改變世界政治版圖的領(lǐng)袖人物非常少，撒切爾就是其中的一位。她在全球播下了深遠(yuǎn)的影響?！盙eorge , former US president, described her as a “great ally” who “strengthened the special relationship”.美國前總統(tǒng)小布什(George )稱撒切爾為一位“強(qiáng)化了美英特殊關(guān)系的偉大盟友”。Thatcher had a particularly close relationship with Ronald Reagan, the former US ?里根(Ronald Reagan)之間保持了一種極為密切的關(guān)系。With Reagan, she helped bring about the end of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin British prime minister saw herself as the perfect intermediary between the two countries, having struck up constructive relationships with both Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet president, and a man with whom she told Reagan “we can do business”.她和里根一道促成了蘇聯(lián)的解體和柏林墻的倒塌。這位英國前首相把自己視為美蘇兩國間的完美中間人，與里根和蘇聯(lián)總統(tǒng)米哈伊爾?戈?duì)柊蛦谭?Mikhail Gorbachev)都建立了富有建設(shè)意義的關(guān)系。她告訴里根，戈?duì)柊蛦谭蚴且粋€(gè)“我們能和他打交道”的人。Mr Gorbachev said Thatcher helped end the Cold War: “Thatcher was a politician whose word carried great weight,” he said in a statement on his website.“Our first meeting in 1984 marked the beginning of a relationship that was at times difficult, not always smooth, but was treated seriously and responsibly by both sides.”戈?duì)柊蛦谭蛟谧约壕W(wǎng)站上發(fā)布的聲明中表示，撒切爾幫助結(jié)束了冷戰(zhàn)：“撒切爾是一位一言九鼎的政治家。我們在1984年第一次會面，隨后便開啟了一段時(shí)而棘手、并非一帆風(fēng)順但雙方都認(rèn)真負(fù)責(zé)予以對待的關(guān)系?！盠ech Walesa, Poland’s former president and antimunist freedom figure, said Thatcher was key in hastening the fall of the Iron Curtain: “She was a great did a great deal for the world, along with Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Solidarity, she contributed to the demise of munism in Poland and central Europe.”波蘭前總統(tǒng)、反對共產(chǎn)主義的自由派人士列赫?瓦文薩(Lech Walesa)表示，撒切爾在加速“鐵幕”(Iron Curtain)倒塌的過程中發(fā)揮了關(guān)鍵的作用：“她是一位偉人。她為世界做出了巨大的貢獻(xiàn)，她與羅納德?里根、教皇約翰?保羅二世(Pope John Paul II)和波蘭團(tuán)結(jié)工會(Solidarity)一起，推動了波蘭與中歐共產(chǎn)主義政權(quán)的終結(jié)?！盚er other great success abroad was in the Falklands War against Argentina, which invaded the islands in defied resistance in her own cabinet to send a 25,000strong task force to the tiny archipelago, which troops eventually recaptured after two ，還包括1982年的英阿?？颂m群島戰(zhàn)爭(Falklands war，又稱馬島戰(zhàn)爭)。她不顧自己內(nèi)閣的反對，最終于兩個(gè)月后奪回了該群島。Her legacy was just as longlasting at succession of prime ministers, Labour and Conservative alike, have felt unable or unwilling to depart from the blueprint she established of a state serviced by privatised utilities and free of the stranglehold of organised 。歷任首相，無論出自工黨還是保守黨，都感到不能或不愿背離她為英國設(shè)定的藍(lán)圖——公用事業(yè)私有化，企業(yè)不受有組織工會的鉗制。