I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
我自己作为一名英国诗人有意地,在我称作感性的声音中写出音乐感。
And that's not very English and I think that's why he is a bit more shocking, not on English television,
那不是很有英国范儿,我想这就是为什么他有一些骇人的,不是在英国电视上,
And I majored in English History and Literature, but I was interested in the 16th and 17th centuries.
我当时主攻的是英国历史和文学,而我感兴趣的是十七和十八世纪。
Let me give you a historical example outside of America, but in the real world, in England.
我举个美国历史以外的案例吧,那是发生在英国的事情
He says, "No." I can't easily inmitate the accent because I was born in Britain "Now I have plenty of time, Mr. Tobson."
记者说,但愿您不会太忙,他说,不,我不会模仿那种口音,因为我在英国出生“
The U.K. Had copied the U.S. Idea -I guess they copied -I don't know where the original -I think it's probably -is it U.K. Cpying the U.S. In this case?
英国效仿了美国的想法,我猜他们是效仿美国的,我也不知道谁先发明的,我认为可能是,存款保险是英国模仿美国
The English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War, in which in parts of central Europe a quarter of the population disappeared, were killed, murdered in ways that I will unfortunately show you in a while.
欧洲近四分之一人口,死于三十年战争和英国内战,稍后我会展示给你们看,我对此也很难过
Sure. So I spent some time over in England, so I know a little bit about how they practice law,
当然。我在英国呆了一阵子,所以我对英国的法律有一些了解,
Sure. So, I went to the University of Toronto where I studied English Literature and Classical Civilizations.
当然可以。我在多伦多大学上学,在那儿我学习英国文学和古典文化。
My friends in Britain, and of courese, Britain is our oldest, one of, it's not our oldest ally but it's certainly one of our closed allies.
我在英国的朋友,当然,英国是我们最早,不,它不是我们最早的同盟国,但它是我们最紧密的同盟。
I'll mention,just in passing, that these thought experiments that I'm about to give, Bernard Williams I'm going to give a pair of them,come from Bernard Williams, who's a British philosopher.
顺便一提,我即将做的两个思考实验,是源于,一位英国哲学家。
Some years ago, when I was a graduate student, I was at Oxford in England and they had men's and women's colleges. They weren't yet mixed and the women's colleges had rules against overnight male guests.
很多年前,我在英国牛津读研究生时,他们有男校和女校,当时还没有合并,而女校有禁止男客过夜的规定。
I was in The British War Museum, the Imperial War Museum the other day, and I'd been there four or five times, and I went--and they have a thing where you can look up dead people.
我去过英国军事博物馆,有一天去帝国军事博物馆,我去过四五次了,我又去了,那有一个,东西你可以搜索阵亡人
I think here in the UK and abroad, fantastic amounts of money are raised every year, you know,
我想在英国和海外,每年都会募集大量的资金,
I feel like the population in the United Kingdom is not quite as diverse as the United States.
我感觉英国的人口不像美国那么多元化。
I heard that in the United Kingdom, people speak quite differently depending on what part they came from.
我听说在英国,人们的口音很不一样,这取决于他们来自哪个地区。
so that meant that for me personally, I could just move to England without any problem at all.
这就意味着,对我个人而言,我可以搬去英国,没有任何问题。
And it gave me a broad perspective of both English and some national or international authors.
它开拓了我的视野,我了解了英国和一些世界各地的作家。
But I suppose it's better to have an idea of British people being posh
但是我想,大家认为英国人很高傲会更好一些,
I don't know, a very English, sort of stiff upper lip kind of man.
我不知道,一个英国式的,坚定沉稳的男人。
So I really like the Tate Galleries, the Tate Modern and Tate Britain,
所以,我很喜欢去泰特美术馆,泰特现代美术馆和泰特英国艺术馆,
But I think in Britain, although we are sort of part of Europe
但是,我想在英国,尽管我们是欧洲的一部分,
And I think the large British cast even increases the friends even more
我想这次宏大的英国演员阵容带来了更多关注的朋友们,
And the first time I came to the UK was to North Yorkshire
然而,我第一次来英国是到了北约克郡,
which was all about Indian culture in Britain as far as I'm aware.
据我所知,它讲述的全是在英国的印度文化。
And hopefully I will be back in England by 9 o'clock, I think.
我希望能在九点之前回到英国。
So the courses I took - -actually I took some English history obviously - I took no American history which would be the field I did in the PHD, but I took a lot of courses in philosophy, in literature.
所以我选了一些课程,当然我选修了英国历史-,但我没有学美国历史,因为那是我博士时的课程,但我选了很多哲学和文学方面的课程。
I'm calling it a growing consol even though the British consols didn't grow.
即使英国债券并不升值,我还是要称之为上涨债务
I don't want to exaggerate this too much but the largest riots in Britain in the eighteenth century are not the riots for political reform at all.
我不想过多地夸张,但十八世纪英国最大的暴乱,完全不是关于政治改革
This is also -I keep thinking how British we are; this is New England and this is the United States, a former British colony.
这也是...,我常想,我们真的很"英国",这里称为新英格兰地区,而美国过去也是英国的殖民地
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