曾一度知名的公司像英国利兰,GEC和ICI现在要么已经解体,要么被接管和瓜分。
Once-famous firms such as British Leyland, GEC and ICI have fallen apart or been taken over and dismembered.
自从巴兹尔·弗尔蒂抱怨“英国利兰协奏曲分为四部分,每部分之间都因四小时的间隔而变慢”(利兰是英国的一个汽车公司,协奏曲为其中的一个汽车品牌),汽车工业就成为英国衰退的一个象征。
Ever since Basil Fawlty moaned about "the British Leyland Concerto in four movements, all of them slow with a four-hour tea break in between", the car industry has been an emblem of national decline.
自从巴兹尔·弗尔蒂抱怨“英国利兰协奏曲分为四部分,每部分之间都因四小时的间隔而变慢”(利兰是英国的一个汽车公司,协奏曲为其中的一个汽车品牌),汽车工业就成为英国衰退的一个象征。
Ever since Basil Fawlty moaned about "the British Leyland Concerto in four movements, all of them slow with a four-hour tea break in between", the car industry has been an emblem of national decline.
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