When it came to voting rights in the European Parliament and in the Council, the Dutch fought doggedly to get one extra vote in Amsterdam in 1991 and another in Nice in 2000.

当涉及到欧洲议会及理事会的投票权问题时，荷兰人在1991年的阿姆斯特丹和2000年的尼斯固执地 要求多获得一张选票。

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But Geert Wilders, leader of the right-wing, anti-Muslim Freedom Party, was so disgusted by the Dutch queen’s “multi-cultural rubbish” that he wanted her to be stripped of her constitutional role in the government.

但是，荷兰右翼反穆斯林的自由党领导人怀德对于荷兰女王的“ 多元文化废话”极为反感，乃至于他想剥夺女王在政府中的宪法地位。

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But if these allegations are true, no one has told the Dutch.

但是，如果这 些说法属实，没有一个来自荷兰。

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She was betrayed by her own former ally, Rita Verdonk, and a variety of Dutch xenophobes, who don’t like an outspoken black female immigrant from Somalia any more than they like Muslims.

实际上她遭到了她自己以前的盟友，费尔多克以及荷兰各种对外国人持憎恨态度的人的背叛，他们对一个来自索马里的敢于直言不讳的黑人女移民的讨厌并不亚于他们对穆斯林的讨厌。

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