时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:其他文化


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Windsor castle, of all Britain's royal palaces, none is older, larger or more loved. This magnificent thousand-year-old fortress 1 is no museum -- it's a vast, living castle.

Home to the Queen since childhood Windsor is also the place from which the royal family take their name. The Queen's children and grandchildren have come to love this kingdom within the kingdom. For the first time, unprecedented 2 access has been granted to the inner life of the castle. This is a historical portrait of an entire year inside the royal domain 3.

When the queen and her government entertain world leaders on grand state occasions, they come to Windsor.
"Typically, we sign a name. Take in quick and get back here."
This is where the royal family celebrate their most important occasions. We'll meet the 300 people who live and work here. (This is just, this is just pure gold) and discover what it is like to serve the monarch 4 in her grandest home. "... this goes on and on and on, your knees hurt, your feet hurt, it's all part of the job like"
"Meself I think I am the second most important person in the castle, besides the Queen"
"Gee, I don't have any children, I love my boy staff, it's just, just like a baby for me"
"We love the Queen; We love the Queen"

At Windsor, Crown and community live and work side by side.
-- We've lived here as in a home very much more so than, than, every body since perhaps Queen Victoria. I think that's what gives it its attraction and its strength is a coherent community which starts from the fact the Queen lives here. It would still go if she wasn't, but it would be a completely different atmosphere.

Above all the pomp, the history and the grandeur 5, everyone at Windsor knows that this is the place the sovereign calls home.


Words and Phrases

pomp: (n.) Dignified or magnificent display; splendor 盛况



1 fortress
n.堡垒,防御工事
  • They made an attempt on a fortress.他们试图夺取这一要塞。
  • The soldier scaled the wall of the fortress by turret.士兵通过塔车攀登上了要塞的城墙。
2 unprecedented
adj.无前例的,新奇的
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
3 domain
n.(活动等)领域,范围;领地,势力范围
  • This information should be in the public domain.这一消息应该为公众所知。
  • This question comes into the domain of philosophy.这一问题属于哲学范畴。
4 monarch
n.帝王,君主,最高统治者
  • The monarch's role is purely ceremonial.君主纯粹是个礼仪职位。
  • I think myself happier now than the greatest monarch upon earth.我觉得这个时候比世界上什么帝王都快乐。
5 grandeur
n.伟大,崇高,宏伟,庄严,豪华
  • The grandeur of the Great Wall is unmatched.长城的壮观是独一无二的。
  • These ruins sufficiently attest the former grandeur of the place.这些遗迹充分证明此处昔日的宏伟。
标签: queen castle 城堡
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