By the way, even though turkeys originated in the New World,confused 16th-century Englishmen took to calling them “Turkey fowl”, just as Frenchmen of the same period referred to them as “poules d’ Inde” (India fowl)

此外，虽然火鸡原产美洲，但是糊涂的16世纪的英国人称它们为“土耳其鸟”，就像同期的法国人称它们为印度鸟一样。

People from England are called Englishmen .

从英国来的人称英国人。

“Whereas a man of more emotional temperament might describe her as ”an exquisite jewel“, ”divine“, ”precious“, the Englishmen will flatly state ”Um, she’s all right“”

富有激情的男人可能会这样形容:她是“一块精美的宝石”,是“天女下凡”,“倾国倾城”,而英国人则轻描淡写地说上一句:“嗯,她长得还行。”

The Beatles performed brilliantly in television interviews-and television-crazy America had a lot of time for these loveable bright young Englishmen , who came across as four distinct characters

甲壳虫乐队在电视采访中表现不凡，而美国电视迷花不少时间观看这些年轻、可爱、聪明的英国人，他们四个来自大洋彼岸，性格迥异。

The curious thing is that they accept his manner as if they knew that all good Englishmen should be made to listen to the voice of conscience from time to time.

令人费解的是,他们对他的行为表示接受,似乎他们知道应该使所有正派的英国人不时听一听良心的谴责。

If pressed, many Englishmen would probably admit that they think of American influence on the language as affecting only the realms of slang

如果被追问得紧，许多英国人可能会说，他们认为美国对英语的影响仅仅在俚语方面。

He was assigned to pass Englishmen through France to England.

他被指派把英国人通过法国转移到英国去。

They were native Englishmen , whose fathers had lived in the sunny richness of the Elizabethan epoch;

他们本来都生在英国,其父辈曾在伊丽莎白时代的明媚和丰饶中生活

They were the first two Englishmen to fly over the Atlantic.

他们是最先飞越大西洋的两个英国人。

They were the first two Englishmen to fly the atlantic.

他们是最早飞越大西洋的两个英国人。

What with the military men, a number of rich young Englishmen on their travels, and the hospitable efforts of the purser, the time passed quickly on the `Mongolia’

他一切事务都搞得很讲究，不论是上午的早餐，下午两点的中餐，五点半的晚餐和八点钟的夜餐，餐桌上都摆满着一盘一盘的新鲜熟肉和其他佐餐小菜。

It’s a safe subject which will provoke an answer from even the most reserved of Englishmen

谈天气保管错不了,就连最不爱说话的英国人也会搭上两句。

Expatriate Englishmen in Spain

西班牙的英国侨民.

“An Englishmen who has seen a highly successful and enjoyable film recommends it to a friend by commenting, ”It’s not Bad, you know,“ or on seeing Breathtaking landscape he might convey his pleasure by saying ”Nice, yes, very nice.“”

一个英国人在看了一场很成功、很有乐趣的电影后,是这样向朋友推荐的:“这片子不错”。或者在看到令人赞叹不已的美丽风景时,他可能会这样表达自己的喜悦:“真美,是的,很美。”

Englishmen often end up their breakfast with toast and marmalade.

英国人常以烤面包加果酱结束早餐。

To their breakfast,Englishmen often land up with toast and marmalade.

英国人常以烤面包加果酱结早餐。

The English are reticent.<=>The Englishmen are reticent.

英国人沉默寡言。<=>这些英国人沉默寡言。

Englishmen start galloping to the devil, but as they grow older, they nearly always change horse and amble along gently to respectability

英国人生下地便朝魔鬼那儿跑，可是等到年纪大了，他们几乎总是换骑徐辔缓行地朝尊荣走去。

Englishmen are the heirs of liberty.

英国人是自由的继承者。

Some Englishmen drop their h’s.

有些英国人发音时省掉h音。

The Englishmen are reticent

这些英国人沉默寡言。

This does not, of course, happen only to Englishmen in France: all nationalities, in all foreign countries, can be found judging what they see, hear, taste and smell according to their own habits and customs.

这种情况当然不仅仅发生在法国的英国人身上。所有民族的人到了外国往往按照他们的风俗习惯判断他们所看到、听到、品味到和嗅到的东西。

||1:Still, vocabulary does not make a language either.||2:More fundamental still is grammar—and here, Scots stands out again.||3:Its speakers say “I’m going to my bed” whereas Englishmen say simply “to bed”.||4:“Dinnae” is a Scots version of “don’t”. “Div” commonly replaces the auxiliary verb “do”.||5:There are past-tense forms such as jamp (jumped), and irregular plurals like een (eyes) and kye(cows).

||1:然而，词汇也不能构成语言。||2:更重要的还是语法，而在这里，苏格兰人再次脱颖而出。||3:说这种话的人会说“I’m going to my bed”，而英国人会简单地说“to bed”。||4:“Div”通常代替助动词“do”。“Dinnae”是苏格兰语“don’t”的变体。||5:有过去式，如jamp(跳跃)，不规则复数，如een(眼睛)和kye(奶牛)。

||1: People asked him about his own kids, seven of them. An off-limits topic. ||2: Family was left behind when he came to the square. ||3: His wife had divorced him, he’d learned. ||4: It wasn’t his fault. He hadn’t wanted to stay eight bloody years away from them, with the pollution and the drunks who broke his nose and the thugs who shouted “Wanker!” at him. ||5: He stayed because he wasn’t finished yet. ||6: And you know what? It was never fundamentally about free speech and the rights of Englishmen and all that stuff. ||7: It was about the dead children. And not walking by.

||1:他有七个孩子，人们问起他自己的孩子怎么样，这是一个禁止谈论的话题。||2:自从他到广场安家后，家庭就被抛之脑后了。||3:他获知，他的妻子同他离婚了。||4:这不是他的错。他也不想他妈的远离亲人八年时间，经历污染，还被几个醉汉打破了鼻子，还有暴徒冲他喊道：“蠢货！”。||5:他留下是因为他还没有达成目标。||6:你知道吗？从根本上说，这绝不是关于自由言论和英国人的权利或其他这类的东西。||7:根本上说是为了那些死去的孩子，而不是为吸引路人。

||1: Typically, a swift shot of Botox, a toxin which freezes muscles, targets the deep forehead cleft which can descend on men over 40, especially if they spend all day frowning at a screen. ||2: Other favoured treatments are lasers, which perk up skin-tone, and cosmetic fillers for those deep grooves between the nose and the mouth. ||3: Englishmen , says Dr Roman, are big spenders. ||4: This is just as well: Botox treatment starts at ￡300 ($477). Fiddlierprocedures can cost twice as much. ||5: The French tag along with their wives; Britons sidle in alone.

||1:通常，只需注射一针肉毒杆菌毒素即可。这种毒素可以麻痹肌肉，作用于额头深层的皱纹。尤其是男士年过四十，整天对着电脑屏幕最容易生皱纹。||2:有些人则青睐激光治疗来改善肤色，以及在鼻与口之间的皱纹里填充整容化学材料。||3:罗曼医生说，英国的男士很舍得花钱。||4:情况确实如此：治疗起价为300英镑（477美元），而要进行一些更为细节的治疗则要花双倍的钱。||5:法国的男士通常由妻子们带着来整容，而英国男士则喜欢一个人悄悄来接受治疗。

Westminster Abbey, which is one of the oldest churches in Great Britain, contains the graves of many famous Englishmen .

Westminster教堂，大不列颠最古老的教堂之一，里面有许多知名英国人士的坟墓。

Beneath their superstar reputations, many of the Englishmen turned out to be less good than others at passing the football.

超级明星的声誉之下，结果是许多英格兰球员在传球上比别人要差。

It was never fundamentally about free speech and the rights of Englishmen and all that stuff.

从根本上说，这绝不是关于自由言论和英国人的权利或其他这类的东西。

Germans were deemed to have bad body odour , Englishmen were accused of letting women do all the work.

德国男人被认为体味太重，英国男人被指不够主动。

Mad dogs and Englishmen not only go out in the midday sun but insist on hitting golf balls in a snowstorm.

疯狗和英国人不仅会在中午顶着大太阳出门，还会坚持在暴风雪中打高尔夫球。