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。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Why do you think the UK uses its own currency instead of using Euros like in other European countries?

英国使用自己的货币，而不是像其他欧盟成员一样使用欧元，你怎么看待这个问题？

欧洲中的英国 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He wrote a long and detailed history of Britain, attempting to create the meaning of that little island that he always assumed was God's chosen nation.

他写了一部长而具体的英国史，试图论证这座小岛的重大意义,他一直相信英国是上帝所选的国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It is fair to argue that non-titled people in England were at the forefront of the victorious role in the civil war that parliament played.

而另一方面,英国的无头衔人群,在议会的内战中,站在了胜利的一方也无可厚非

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So they say you should start like a Turkey and finish like an Englishman.

所以有个说法就是开始时要像土耳其人一样开始某事,而结束时要像英国人一样。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The one, the cabin boy, he had no family, he had no dependents, these other three had families back home in England; they had dependents; they had wives and children.

一方就是派克，没有家庭，也没有亲人，而另外那三个人在英国有自己的家庭;,有亲人，他们有妻儿。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I don't know, Taiwan, knowing people who might live in the UK or something like that.

台湾的人，而这个人又认识住在英国的人，诸如此类。

关于全球化 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Dante and Milton had mythologies, Shakespeare the characters of English history, of traditional romance is more type than man, more passion than type.

但丁，弥尔顿，莎士比亚写神话,英国历史，古典爱情的人物,是激情而非类型。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

For Hobbes, Aristotle taught the dangerous doctrine of republican government that was seen to be practiced particularly during the Cromwellian Period in England, during the civil war.

对贺伯斯而言，亚里士多德教授,共和政府的危险教义,而那被视为,是英国克伦威尔时期所盛行，当时仍在英国内战时期。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They're... Britain are known for the roast beef dinners

他们……英国因烤牛肉晚餐而出名，

吃烤牛肉 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There is this real fear that large standing armies could ultimately compromise the rights of freeborn Englishmen.

他们所真正担心的是大量常备军,可能最终会危及到"生而自由"的英国人的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

They will defend, quite vociferously, their privileges as townspeople against absolutist pretensions of nobles, in the case of the Netherlands and also, to an extent, in England as well.

他们奔走呼号,捍卫自己的权利,以城里人身份去反对贵族的专制野心,而在荷兰,某种程度上,同英国是一样的

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选