英国最长的人造水道,利兹-利物浦运河,构建于1770年和1816年之间,曾为运输煤炭,石灰石,羊毛,棉花,谷物和其他农产品的干道。
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Britain's longest man-made waterway, was constructed between 1770 and 1816 and carried coal, limestone, wool, cotton, grain and other farm produce.
布罗兹区是英国最大的湿地,其水道宽达几公里,非常适宜于乘船。
The largest wetland in Great Britain, The Broads has miles of wide waterways popular with boaters.
布里奇顿的下水道是一个展现了维多利亚时期工程和建筑风格的鲜活的纪念馆,其得票数超过了包括约克公爵影院(Duke ofYork'sPicturehouse)在内的其他名胜古迹,后者是英国最古老的电影院之一。
The living monument to Victorian engineering and architecture topped other attractions including the Duke of York's Picturehouse, one of Britain's oldest cinemas.
随着水道测绘局的成立,英国海军有了自己的地图绘制部门、雕版工、印刷设备。
With the establishment of the Hydrographic Office the British Navy had its own map department, engravers, and printing facilities.
做出警告的英国伯明翰和华威大学的科学家认为,冲入下水道和河流的消毒剂和其他产品引发了抗药性微生物的增长。
The warning has been made by Birmingham and Warwick university scientists, who say disinfectants and other products washed into sewers and rivers are triggering the growth of drug-resistant microbes.
英国探险家理查德•伯顿曾描写过岛上下水道中尸体漂浮的场景。
Richard Burton, a British explorer, described slave corpses floating in the island’s sewage.
Green提高英国民众缺乏必要的技能,这点十分正确。 但是说赶出这些过去七年的水道工就能提高英国民众的技能水平,就没有那么确定了。
Mr Green is right that many British people lack skills; it is less clear that excluding Polish plumbers for the past seven years would have improved British craftsmanship.
《学术报告》——我们的监狱制度——古老英国的水道——马匹交易及其方法——财产、产权与义务——荣归故里典型的英国乡绅。
SYNOPSIS—Our Prison System—the Waterways of Old England—Horse-dealing, and how to deal—Property, its rights and its duties—Back to the Land—A Typical English Squire.
老鼠因为能够挤过狭小开口并经常在下水道中被发现而被人类熟知。所以这个表达在英国较为流行,英国人常会使用。
Rats are known to be able to squeeze through the tiniest of openings and are often found in sewers, so this expression is, as the Brits would say, spot on.
老鼠因为能够挤过狭小开口并经常在下水道中被发现而被人类熟知。所以这个表达在英国较为流行,英国人常会使用。
Rats are known to be able to squeeze through the tiniest of openings and are often found in sewers, so this expression is, as the Brits would say, spot on.
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