【跟着英剧练发音】A History Of Britain - 21B
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：跟着英剧练发音
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The symbol not of imperial grandeur 1, but of crushing nationalannihilation, a permanent, daily, wounding reminder 2 of conquest andhumiliation.
The most colossal 3 exercise, in fact, in colonial domination anywhere in medieval Europe. Beneath the lion standard of Edward Plantagenet, the Welsh inhabitants had now become second-class citizens in their own country.
Well, those natives were treated for the most part like naughty children,not allowed to bear arms, of course, but even forced to ask permission if theywanted strangers to stay at their house overnight. Worst of all, I think, theWelsh were doomed 4 by English superiority to become objects of terminalquaintness. The quaint 5 language, the quaint songs, those amusing choirs 6 andchants.
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这些堡垒并非为了昭示帝国的辉煌，而是要泯灭威尔士的民族意识，象征着征服和凌辱，将威尔士骑在身下。根据中世纪欧洲的殖民统治惯例，在金雀花王朝的爱德华统治下，威尔士人民在自己的国土上成为了二等公民。统治者对待那些原住民就像对待不听话的孩子，他们当然是不准携带武器的，但竟然连留宿外乡人，也需要得到批准。但我认为最糟糕的是在英格兰的特权统治下，威尔士的古老文化注定将走向消亡，古老的语言，古雅的民谣，还有那些动人的赞美诗。
- 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。
- I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
- It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。
- There has been a colossal waste of public money.一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
- Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。
- The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
- A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。