查询词典 Britons

According to the Sun newspaper (not the most reliable source, but still) 2.4m Britons threw a sickie last Monday.

据《太阳报》的说法，上周一有240万英国人请了&病假&。

LONDON - Britons are too busy to eat oranges in their lunch breaks nowadays and are opting instead for "easy to peel" fruit like satsumas, according to a survey.

伦敦--据一项调查现实如今英国人由于太忙午餐也没时间吃橙子而选择&要容易剥&的satsumas。

Another recommendation by the Power inquiry, taken up this week by a rightish think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, is that ordinary Britons should have the same right to initiate legislation through referendums as citizens in 24 American states and many European countries, most famously Switzerland.

&权力寻求&的另外一个建议是由一个右派智囊团&政策研究中心&于本周提出的，该建议是普通的英国人应该有权利在公民复投时提出法律议案，就如同在美国24个洲，许多欧洲国家，尤其是瑞士的居民所享有的权利一样。

Poms, Britons who paid just 10 (then $27) to start a new life down under.

那时 英国人只要每人花上 10 ($27)，就可以展开全新的移民生活。

Rain-soaked Britons are either Europe's most hopeless optimists, or are more desperate than anyone else to get even a brief glimpse of the sun.

长期遭受雨水浸湿的英国人，要么是欧洲最不可救药的乐观主义者，要么就是比其他任何人都更为绝望，甚至终年不见阳光。

Clarkson also organised what was probably the first ever consumer-goods boycott, of slave-grown sugar, to bring home to ordinary Britons at their tea tables the message that they were paying a dreadful price in human cruelty for indulging a sweet tooth.

克拉克森还组织了估计是首次消费品抵制运动，比如奴隶种植园出产的糖块，这是寻常英国百姓的茶桌上的日常用品，这场运动令广大英国人意识到他们是在为了贪图一时口舌之欲而为那些暴行买单。

A serious uprising of the natives happened in A.D.61 under Boudicca, the widow of one of the native leaders, and 70000 Romans and Romanized Britons are said to have been killed.

公元61年在本国一个领导人的遗孀Boudicca布迪卡领导下爆发了一次uprising起义，据说70000罗马人和英国人被杀。

So we Britons have little or no real influence in world affairs-and Queen Anne is dead, too.

我们英国人在世界事务中很少或几乎没有什么真正影响－而且这已非新闻。

This cluster of 18 per cent of behaviourally sexless Britons may well have fantasies and desires, may well masturbate or use pornography; butthese individuals do not engage in genital sex with another human being.

这18％行为上没有性的少量英国人可能也有幻想和欲望，可能也手淫或使用色情读物；但是这些个体没有与另一个人类发生过接触生殖器的性行为。

Who, then, are today's Britons and what kind of people are they?

那么，谁是今天的不列颠人，他们又是什么人呢？

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。