中石油2016通用英语选读课文49The British through My Eyes我眼中的英国人.docVIP

49 The British through My Eyes 我眼中的英国人 1.While I was studying in London as a visiting scholar学者,I came to know more of the British culture and customs.During one year’s study,I noticed that the British behaved quite differently in many ways compared to与…相比 the Chinese. 1.作为一名访问学者，在伦敦学习的一年时间里，我对英国的文化与习俗开始有了更多的了解，注意到英国人在许多方面与我们中国人的表现大不相同。 2.British people tend to be趋向于 rather conservativeadj保守的.The conservative attitude is only to accept things familiar to熟悉的 them and to be suspicious of怀疑 anything that is strange or foreign.They like antiquesn古董，古物adj古时的，过时的 so much that they never hesitate犹豫 to spend money buying them even if they are useless.A lot of British people remain strongly attached to使依恋，把…放在 coal or wood fireplaces壁炉,even though尽管 it causes a great deal of 大量work and adds to the pollution of the air.Some of them liked to spend a great deal of money and trouble putting in a dummyadj虚拟的，假的n哑巴，傀儡，假人 fireplace,which would never be used;they thought a living room without a fireplace would be a room without a basic characteristic of cosiness基本特性cosiness.Many rooms are in fact heated by gas or electric fires,but they are usually placed in front of old-style fireplaces,and many people choose electric fires designed so as to look like coal fires,with imitationn人造的 pieces of coal which are lit发光light的过去式及过去分词 when the current电流 is turned on. 2.英国人一般相当保守。他们保守的态度表现在他们只接受他们熟悉的东西，而对任何外来的或陌生的东西持怀疑态度。他们非常喜欢古董，以至对那些即使没什么用处的东西，也会毫不犹豫地买回来。现在，尽管使用煤或木头的壁炉很麻烦，而且会增加空气污染，但是仍有许多英国人家非常喜欢使用。他们有些人会不惜花钱和费事，给房间安装上一个从不使用的假壁炉。他们认为，居室里如果没有壁炉就失去了让人感觉舒适惬意的基本特点。许多房间实际上是用煤气或电炉取暖的，但取暖器通常放在老式壁炉前面。许多英国人喜欢选择外观设计像烧煤的壁炉式的电暖气，当电源接通时，里面的假煤块就会发出红光。 3.To other Europeans,he best-known quality特点 of the British,and in particular尤其是 of the English,is “reserven缄默、矜持.”A reserved person is one who does not talk very much to strangers,does not show much emotion情绪,and seldom gets excited.It is difficult to get to know a reserved person;he never tells you about anything of himself,and you may work with him for