It should be remembered that when five countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands – agreed in 1985 (in the village of Schengen, Luxembourg) to abolish border controls, they did not do so on a whim or because some politicians had a lofty vision. However symbolic the agreement may have been, symbolism wasn’t the point.
应该记住，当五个国家——比利时、法国、德国、卢森堡和荷兰——在1985年（于卢森堡小镇申根）同意取消边境控制时，它们并非是心血来潮，也不是因为某些政客的崇高理想。不管这一协议具有多大的象征意义，这绝非它的重点。