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她是英国人, 但也有一些德国亲戚. She is British but also has German connections.
一个英国人,尽管只有他一个人,也会独个儿排成整整齐齐的一队。 An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
常去教堂的英国人更喜欢严格的布教者,因为他认为一些深刻的真理不至于伤害他的邻居。 The british churchgoer prefer a severe preacher because he think a few home truth with do his neighbour no harm.
(欧洲)大陆人有性生活,英国人则有热水瓶。 Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottle.
他们忍受著恶劣天气的煎熬, 表现了英国人典型的坚忍不拔的精神. They reacted to the appalling weather with typical British stoicism.
惟有疯狗与英国人会在中午的烈日之下跑到外头去。 Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.
《圣经》中有提及英国人的话:“柔顺的人们是有福的,因为他们将会继承大地”。 The English are mentioned in the Bible: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
马林诺团体斯基,布伦尼斯洛·卡斯佩1884-1942波兰裔英国人类社会学家,坚持认为习俗和信仰具有特定的社会功能 Polish-born British anthropologist who maintained that customs and beliefs have specific social functions.
英国人在任何动乱的年代都要重温战争时期的日子,那时人们都友好互助。 In any troubled times, the British tend to hark back to wartime days, when people helped each other in a friendly spirit.
英国人引以自豪的传统之一是有获得公正审判的权利. One of the glories of the British heritage is the right to a fair trial.
将近一万名西方平民(多半是英国人和美国人)躲藏在被占领的科威特城。如果萨达姆能如愿,使他们落在他手里,他们将被指定为活靶,难逃浩劫。 Nearly10, 000 Western civilians, mostly British and American, are holed up in captured Kuwait City. If Saddam gets his hands on them, as he intends to, they are to be designated human targets and doomed.