法国

But while we were considering this, there came in four French Gentlemen, who having been stopp'd on the French Side of the Passes, as we were on the Spanish, had found out a Guide, who traversing the Country near the Head of Languedoc, had brought them over the Mountains by such Ways, that they were not much incommoded with the Snow; and where they met with Snow in any Quantity, they said it was frozen hard enough to bear them and their Horses.

正当我们在考虑另寻出路时，忽然来了四位法国绅士。他们曾经在法国境内的山路上被雪所阻，正像我们在这儿西班牙境内的山路上被雪所阻一样。但是，他们后来找到了一个向导，带他们绕过朗格多附近的山区，一路上没碰到什么大雪；即使在雪最多的地方，据他们说也冻得很硬，人和马通行是不成问题的。

Afterward ossifies, conservatively for the change higher vocational-technical education, is separated from the actual condition, the French government carries on the reform to the higher vocational-technical education school type, causes it and the medium vocational-technical education engagement is closer, thus has established the French nowadays in the structure from becomes the system, intermediate, high-level organic engagement, management order vocational-technical education system.

随后为改变高等职业技术教育僵化、保守、脱离实际的状况，法国政府又对高等职业技术教育办学类型进行改革，使之和中等职业技术教育衔接的更加紧密，从而确立了法国现今的在结构上自成体系，中、高级有机衔接、管理有序的职业技术教育体系。

Britain came close to being outvoted on March 16th, though it had signalled that defending its financial sector was a vital interest—as farms are to France, the City is to Britain. But Mr Brown succeeded in confirming the EU's traditional attachment to decision-making by consensus—at least where big countries are involved—even when the rules allow a majority vote.

五月十六日英国的提案差点就被投票否决，尽管英国方面已经表态说维护英国的金融部门至关重要——其意义等同于就像法国农民之于法国，伦敦金融城之于英国——但是布朗先生已经重申，欧盟传统的把一致通过作为决策依据的做法不会改变——至少在大国参与的讨论中是这样——虽然按照规定，多数票决也是可以的。

"As the French see it, joining the civil service is not generally considered a track like any other, but a decision to devote one's life to the public interest," purrs an official report. Some 70% of French respondents told Ipsos, a pollster, that the civil service had a good image, and they would like their children to join.

&正如法国人想的那样，参与公共服务并不像其他职业一样只是一种人生轨迹，而是将自己的生命奉献给公共利益的一个决定，&一份官方报告称道。70%的法国调查对象告诉益普索，他们觉得公共服务形象好，希望自己的孩子能加入其中。

French people as well as allied troops were sickened by the treatment meted out to those accused of collaboration horizontale. After undergoing the humiliation of having their heads shaved they were paraded through the streets, occasionally to the sound of drums, as if France was re-enacting the Reign of Terror in the French revolution.

受&横向协作&指控的人们待遇让法国人和同盟军都心生厌恶：首先受到剃发之辱，随后又被拉去游街示众，有的时候旁边还会伴有鼓点，法国仿佛回到了大革命时代的恐怖统治。

France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, seems readier to help—though Greece may come under pressure to buy more expensive French frigates for its navy.

法国总统萨科奇似乎已经准备好了援助希腊，尽管之后希腊可能要面对为本国海军购买昂贵的法国军舰的压力。

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who isn't a candidate, yesterday said the French government would join EADS's private shareholders in recapitalizing Airbus, if management deems it necessary.

法国总理德维尔潘周一表示，如果管理层认为有必要，法国政府将同EADS的私人股东一道调整空中客车的资本结构。德维尔潘不是下届总统的候选人。

If the aim of the Russians really was to cut off Napoleon and his marshals, and to take them prisoners, and that aim was not only frustrated, but all attempts at attaining it were every time defeated in the most shameful way, this last period of the war is quite correctly represented by the French as a series of victories for them, and quite incorrectly represented by the Russians as redounding to our glory.

如果俄国人的目的是切断和生擒拿破仑和元帅们，那么，这个目的不仅没有达到，而且为达到这个目的的一切企图，没有哪一次不遭受可耻的破坏。那么，法国人认为，战争最后阶段是法国人获得了一连串的胜利是完全对的，而俄国历史学家说，是俄国人获得了胜利，这就完全错了。

A survey published Friday in France found that 54 percent of French believe that reprinting the images in the European press amounted to unnecessary provocation.

周五在法国发表的一篇调查表明54％的法国公民相信在欧洲对于漫画的重新印刷起了不必要的挑衅作用。

Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffled his cabinet following his UMP party's heavy defeat inFrance's regional elections.

法国总统萨科奇领导的人民运动联盟在法国地方选举中惨败之后，他对内阁进行了改组。

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。