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Later, the design was Han has not been used and rejected on the grounds that such a banner with the British Union Jack - Jack is exactly the same.

后来，这一设计方案被否决而未被顸用，理由是这样一面旗帜与英国英国国旗——米字旗如出一辙。

Spots are, of course, a ubiquitous tool in graphic design (the British Council logo, until 2004, was a grey and red Union Jack picked out in a square of seven spots).

当然，点画法是图形设计中一种常见工具（英国文化协会的标志直到2004年还是以7个点构成的方形，点缀着灰、红相间的英国国旗）。

German thought had a profound impact on British and American theology, but indigenous movements in both places, the Broad Church tradition in Britain and Unitarianism in America, significantly shaped liberalism's development there.

德国的思想产生了深刻的影响英国和美国的神学，但土著运动在两地，广大教会的传统，在英国和unitarianism在美国，显着形自由主义的发展。

Having entered the country uninvited, the army is leaving unlamented. The handover ceremony in the departure lounge of Basra airport (Britain's last base) on December 16th, when Basra province was transferred to Iraqi security control, summed it up: the British are no longer safe in the city, and have booked their tickets out of the country.

英国军队不请自来，他们走时也不会有人挽留。12月16日，在Basra机场（英军在伊拉克最后一处基地）举行的交接仪式上，英军把Basra省的控制权移交给了伊拉克安全武装，这意味着英军在伊拉克的行动完全结束了，英国人在这个城市里不再安全，他们已经订好了机票，要离开伊拉克。

Acquisitions of 2001 2001 年的购并案 A few days before last year's annual meeting, I received a heavy package from St. Louis, containing an unprepossessing chunk of metal whose function I couldn't imagine. There was a letter in the package, though, from Gene Toombs, CEO of a company called MiTek. He explained that MiTek is the world's leading producer of this thing I'd received, a "connector plate," which is used in making roofing trusses. Gene also said that the U.K. parent of MiTek wished to sell the company and that Berkshire seemed to him the ideal buyer. Liking the sound of his letter, I gave Gene a call. It took me only a minute to realize that he was our kind of manager and MiTek our kind of business. We made a cash offer to the U.K. owner and before long had a deal.

就在去年股东会的前几天，我收到从圣路易寄来的一个大包裹，里面装了一块看不出做何用途的金属，包裹里还有一封信，署名 Gene Toombs-他是一家叫做 MiTek 公司的总裁，他解释说 MiTek 是专门制造这玩意儿的世界级领导厂商，也就是用来做屋梁的连接板，他进一步表示 MiTek 的英国母公司有意出售这家公司，他认为 Berkshire 应该是最合适的买家，我相当欣赏他写这封信的语气，所以当下打电话给他，几分钟的谈话，我就发觉他是属于我们类型的经理人，而 MiTek 也是我们想要的公司类型，于是我们报了一个价给其英国母公司，没多久后就正式成交。

Monty Python comedia were geniuses of the a urd who took a lot of material from the world of British schools after World War II; am would have been tediously familiar to British viewers of a certain age.

Monty Python的喜剧演员们是一群搞笑天才，他们从二战后英国校园生活中汲取了大量素材，对于一定年龄的英国观众来说， am肯定是熟悉得不能再熟悉了。

Pioneer of British dance and founder of the Royal Ballet Dame Ninette de Valois,who died on March 8 at the age of 102,will be remembered,not just as a gifted choreographer1,but as one of the 20th Century's greatest and most influential figures in the world of the Arts.

英国舞蹈界先驱、英国皇家芭蕾舞团的缔造者妮内特·德瓦卢瓦夫人，3月8日辞世，享年102岁。世人将会永远记住她，不仅因为她是一位天才的舞蹈编导，而且也因为她是20世纪全世界最伟大、最具影响力的艺术家之一。

The highly accountable monarchy of the English kings could not fund the conquest of Ireland, or match the huge resources at the disposal of the Valois as they gained control over the vast domains of France; nor could an authority which became ever more obviously English in style prevail against the burgeoning nationalisms of France and Scotland.

高度君主制的英国国王们不可能为征服爱尔兰提供资金，也没有可以相当的庞大的资源来处置已经控制法国大部分领土的valois。任何一个越来越具有典型英国风格的政权都不能扼杀法国和苏格兰正民族主义的萌芽。

You can say that Tibet used to be a vassal state to China.

我觉得有英国同事问，这还是好事情，说明这种英国人至少对中国还算有点好感，对西藏究竟发生了什么可能不太清楚，那些问都不问的人，可能内心里的认知程度更对华强硬，象这里媒体这么疯狂报道的，谁会不知道呢？

English pork is good,but English veal is sometimes disappointing.

英国猪肉很不错，但英国的牛肉有时却令人失望。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。