英国

When English people use the word "hunting" they usually mean fox-hunting, a sport which is popular among a small but important minority.

英国人提到"打猎"时，他们通常指的是猎狐。喜爱这种运动的人很少，但他们都是英国社会中举足轻重的人。

W hen English people use the word "hunting" they usually mean fox-hunting, a sport which is popular among a small but important minority.

英国人提到"打猎"时，他们通常指的是猎狐。喜爱这种运动的人很少，但他们都是英国社会中举足轻重的人。

The soaps exploit that…as do all the gardening, home improvement and comedy shows…they're very obviously British….Mind you, I really enjoy Friends and Frasier – and Home and Away…. and they're not British,,,,But I can relate to the people, to their situations; the scripts are funny or believable, as are the people.

肥皂剧利用这一点……就像所有的园艺、家庭装修和喜剧表演都利用它一样……它们都是非常明显的有英国色彩的……告诉你，我真的喜欢《朋友》和《福拉斯尔》——还有《归去来》 Home and Away ……——而且它们不是英国的，但是，我可以联想到那里的人民、他们的处境；剧本有趣又可信，人物也一样。

Some 61 percent disagreed that it is now more pleasant than in 1997, when a fresh-faced Blair won his first election victory. A further 69 percent thought it was more dangerous and 58 percent disagreed it was happier.

约61%的人说，自从1997年大选冒出了个布莱尔，英国就变得越来越不适合居住。69%的调查对象称如今的英国更加危险，58%的人认为不如从前快乐。

The 1980s, and also rescued a handful of rather fusty British luxury brands. So the arrival of a newsupply of Asian tourists, this time from China, is arousing some excitement.

日本游客带着大量的日元现金卡在80年代重塑了英国的旅游业，并拯救了一大批陈腐的英国奢侈品牌。

Y 1870 the business had established itself by focusing on the development of outdoors attire. In 1880 Burberry invented gabardine, a hardwearing, water-resistant yet breathable fabric, in which the yarn is waterproofed before weaving.

URBERRY创办于1856年，是英国皇室御用品，于1879年BURBERRY研制了一种防水防绉、透气耐穿的布料：gabardine，由此赢得大家的认可。1901年，BURBERRY设计出第一款风衣，在第一次大战，其风衣被指定为英国军队的高级军服。

In 1880 Burberry invented gabardine, a hardwearing, water-resistant yet breathable fabric, in which the yarn is waterproofed before weaving. The Gabardine was patented in 1888. Burberry was the original name, but then soon switched to Burberrys, after many customers from around the world began calling it Burberrys of London.

BURBERRY创办于1856年，是英国皇室御用品，于1879年BURBERRY研制了一种防水防绉、透气耐穿的布料：gabardine，由此赢得大家的认可。1901年，BURBERRY设计出第一款风衣，在第一次大战，其风衣被指定为英国军队的高级军服。

You can communicate in English, Welsh or Scottish Gaelic to an acceptable degree; and

我什么时候可以申请英国护照。是一年后还是要在英国住满3年？

Using special software called Exodus, Galea also calculated how long it would have taken to evacuate the towers if they had been fully occupied.'What happened on 9/11 was horrible, but it could have been a lot worse.

英国专家目前正在对美国"9·11"事件幸存者们遭遇危机时刻的反应进行分析，目的是总结经验教训，以便使英国正在增多的摩天楼盖得更加安全和易于人员疏散。

Their strategic counterparts, on the other hand, appeared to have learnt the lessons of the 1990s merger boom and were putting together more sensible combinations with industrial logic such as Tata Steel's $13.4bn takeover of the UK's Corus in 2007 and Japan Tobacco's $7.5bn acquisition of its British rival Gallaher that same year.

另一方面，战略收购者似乎吸取了上世纪90年代合并浪潮的教训，他们做成的合并交易更为明智且符合行业逻辑，比如塔塔钢铁于2007年以134亿美元收购英国鲁氏，以及日本烟草于同年以75亿美元收购英国竞争对手加拉赫。

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。