英国人

His grandfather had fought against the British during the Anglo-Boer war.

在盎格鲁---布尔人战争中，他的祖父抗击英国人。

The large group at one of the prime tables (the ones with the red and gold armchairs), where a sommelier was decanting a jeroboam of red Bordeaux, turned out to be British.

我见过一大群人正围着一个大桌子（大桌子配着红色和金色的扶手椅），一个斟酒服务员正在抱着一大瓶，慢慢倒出红波尔多葡萄酒。那些人却是英国人。

An English gentleman and a French lady shared a carriage on the train.

英国绅士与法国女人同乘一个包厢，女人想引诱这个英国人，她脱衣躺下后就抱怨身上发冷。

Eighty-two percent of respondents were white and 92% described themselves as British.

%的受访者名白人和92 %形容自己是英国人。

Respondents not only embrace a British identity less readily than they did but also have trouble ascribing a distinctive meaning to it. When asked what it meant by pollsters, most struggled, then fell back on such banalities as "the stiff upper lip" and "drinking tea".

被调查者不但不热衷于&英国人&这个identity，同时也没有什么是&英国人&的概念，当被问到如何界定英国人时，他们的定义都是些诸如&the stiff upper lip&，&drink tea&之类的答案

For British men, 40% of drinking sessions turned into binges.

对于英国人，该数字达到了40%。

Just before Christmas the Office for National Statistics had more bad news for bourgeois boozers: it has, apparently, been under-counting the Britons who drink to excess.

就在圣诞节前，国家统计局发布了更多关于中产阶级酒鬼的坏消息：一直以来明显少算了过度饮酒的英国人。

I can't ever remember seeing them at the Brits?

我不记得看到过的英国人呢？

Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to your club.

英国人：相信你应留意这些人谁属于您的俱乐部。

Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success, and failure are inherited.

英国人：似乎认为，财富，贫穷，成功和失败的继承。

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。