Heaven, according to this view, would be a special kind of Hell, a land filled with the souls of smiling, slumbering idiots intoxicated by unending love, understanding and pleasant company.

按照这种观点，天堂将是一个特别友善的地狱，是一个充满了微笑灵魂的地方，人们躺着沉迷在无尽的爱、善解人意和愉悦的伴侣里边。

youdao

Many countries have copied these “striding steel sentries”, as the poet Stephen Spender called them; more than 88, 000 now march across the country’s intermittently green and pleasant land.

诗人斯蒂芬斯班德称这些建筑为“大步跨越的钢铁哨兵”，现今许多国家也仿造了这种建筑。 现在英国有88，000多这类的输电塔渐渐断断地矗立在绿色和令人喜爱的土地上。

youdao

For the past 10 years photographer Peter Dench has been photographing the antics of those of us who live in his homeland, the green and pleasant land that is England.

BBC: England Uncensored by Peter Dench

Thus the distaste (a better word than fear I feel) for further attempts to invade our green and pleasant land.

FORBES: The British Are More Germanic Than They Think