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1·In 1972 Britain left EFTA and joined the EEC.

1972年英国脱离欧洲自由贸易联盟，加入了欧洲经济共同体。

2·However, Norway is a member of the much smaller European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

同时，挪威也是更小的欧洲自由贸易协会的成员国。

3·Although Switzerland is member of the EFTA, it does not directly apply the CE Marking.

瑞士是欧洲自由贸易联盟会员国，CE并不直接适用于瑞士。

4·EFTA is an abbreviation for the European Free Trade Association of which Iceland is a Member State.

EFTA是欧洲自由贸易协会的简称，冰岛为其成员国。

5·Britain might, however, seek a more distant relationship. It could steer clear of the EEA but join EFTA, which it helped to set up in 1960.

因此，英国可能会寻求一种与欧洲更疏远的关系，她可能会绕开EEA而加入自己在1960年帮助建立的EFTA。

6·And if the UK joined the EEA or EFTA, we would still have to sign up to most of the EU's environmental laws, because those laws also affect the functioning of the single market.

如果英国加入欧洲经济区或欧洲自由贸易联盟，我们还是得签署绝大多数的欧盟环境法，因为这些法规同样影响到统一市场的运行。

7·Despite the EFTA experiment, Britain applied for membership only four years after the Treaty of Rome, but was blocked by DE Gaulle's veto and did not join until 1973, along with Denmark and Ireland.

尽管作了创立欧洲自由贸易协会这个尝试，但在《罗马条约》签订后的第五年，英国就申请成为其会员，不过这一度受戴高乐否决阻碍，直到1973年才与丹麦和爱尔兰一同成功加入该协会。