如今,不少英国人日常生活中的通讯、银行、地铁、机场、水利、卫洁均由西班牙企业运作。
Many Britons now phone, bank, travel by Tube, fly out of an airport, run a tap or flush the toilet courtesy of Spanish enterprise.
每年都有不少游客选择到英国去看巨石阵。
Every year, a number of visitors choose to go to Britain to see Stonehenge.
1707年波尔多红酒交易的供应商和不少其他商人声称他们运送的酒在战争中被英国战船掠夺,但事实很可能并非如此。
The vendors in the 1707 sales, and many others, claimed that their supplies were captured by British ships in the fighting; but they probably weren’t.
而在西伦敦,作为英国不少高科技企业的基地,一个新的区域正在形成。
And west of London, where many of Britain's high-tech firms are based, a new region is developing.
他便解释道,每年前来英国旅行的美国人成千上万,可其中不少人没有英国朋友。
He explained to me that of the thousands of Americans who annually pass through England there are many hundreds who have no English friends.
尽管欧元的名声持续不佳,但有不少好消息正在促进英国旅客考虑今年到欧元区度假。
Despite continuing bad publicity, there's a double helping of good news for UK tourists considering the eurozone this summer.
低温席卷美国,最南端已达佛罗里达州。某些地区已创下低温纪录。暴雪使英国交通瘫痪,不少民众谴责结冰的路面并没有被砂石覆盖。
Bitterly cold temperatures in America as far south as Florida broke some local records and snow caused travel havoc in Britain, where perennial gripes were aired about icy roads not being gritted.
英国救援队救了不少人,但也有遗憾的时候,一个十八岁的女孩在被救出后几分钟离开人世。
UK team had some successes but one agonising failure when an 18-year-old girl died minutes away from rescue.
他一直需要钱,当然这本身在英国国王中并不少见。
He was constantly in need of money, which in itself was not unique among English Kings.
在过去的一个月中,俄罗斯和英国报纸已经出现了不少传闻,说“北冰洋”号秘密运载了一批S- 300防空导弹,目的地为德黑兰。
Over the past month, speculation has swirled in Russian and British papers that the Arctic Sea was carrying a secret consignment of S-300 anti-aircraft interceptors, destined for Tehran.
新闻集团在澳大利亚,英国,和爱尔兰拥有不少报纸。
Although, it owns a large number of papers in Australia, as well as the U.K. and Ireland.
但这种习惯正在改变,英国人,爱尔兰人和北欧人(美国人和加拿大人也是如此)喝掉的红酒比起以前就多了不少。
But habits are changing as Britons, the Irish and Nordics (as well as Americans and Canadians) are knocking back more wine than before.
在今年的圣诞购物季,中国顾客们在英国的商场里或许会听到不少“新年快乐”的汉语祝福。
Shop in the Christmas this year season, Chinese clients can be heard probably in British bazaar many "Happy New year" Chinese is blessed.
一家拥有不少年轻设计师的经纪公司表示同意说:“英国年轻设计师只会设计给他们带来灵感的时装,对时装造价或目标买家为何人从不予考虑。”
The agent for a number of new designers agrees: “Young designers here just make what inspires them without thinking enough about how much they’ll have to charge for it, or who will buy it.”
我还想说,Gaiman(尼尔“盖曼,英国作家)的一些作品也影响了我,因为我从他处理魔法和神术的问题上获得了不少乐趣。”
I'd also like to think that certain Gaiman books influenced me, as I really enjoy how he deals with issues of magic and the divine.
英国的发电站大多老旧,而由于严格的碳排放计划,将有不少在未来10年之内面临被核电站及风电站所取代的下场。
The country's power stations are decrepit. Many will shut over the coming decade; strict carbon-emissions targets mean they must be replaced with a mix of nuclear-power plants and wind turbines.
英国统治印度期间,犯了不少错误,剥夺了印度人拥有武装的法令是其中最大的一个错误。
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
凭借着深厚的英国文化气息、曲折复杂的故事情节、历史背景和高水准的制作,《唐顿庄园》俘获了不少中国粉丝的心。
With its deep sense of British culture, complicated plots, historical background and high production quality, Downton Abbey won the hearts of many Chinese fans.
在珠海找到特别地道的批萨,确实要花不少时间,不过好彩,珠海的老外介绍说, 在金鼎,- 位英国人做的批萨, 绝对正宗。
It really takes time to find really good pizza in Zhuhai, however, foreign people living in Zhuhai will tell you that there is a British person in Jiding who makes really good pizza.
这同样会给英国公司带来不少挑战,因为他们必须抵制降低成本的压力,从而避免可能造成工程安全的隐患。
This too could create challenges for British companies, as they had to resist all pressure to cut corners if to do so might conceivably compromise safety.
阿博特做过不少“拍脑袋的决定”,其中包括授予英国菲利普亲王骑士头衔,此事让他备受争议。
Mr Abbott's controversial choice to award Prince Philip a knighthood was one of his many "captain's calls".
然而,英国人有不少理由去抱怨获奖者的默默无闻。
Britons, however, have fewer reasons than most to gripe about the obscurity of laureates.
然而,英国人有不少理由去抱怨获奖者的默默无闻。
Britons, however, have fewer reasons than most to gripe about the obscurity of laureates.
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