Last night he said: 'We've tried to create a new British design icon, like Concorde, the Spitfire or the Routemaster bus.

昨晚他这样说道：“我们要为英国创造一项新的标志，就像协和飞机，‘喷火’战斗机和双层巴士一样。”

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England football icon David Beckham is flying to Afghanistan for a surprise visit to boost morale for the thousands of British troops stationed there, local media reported Saturday.

据当地媒体22日报道，英格兰足坛巨星贝克·汉姆已搭乘专机前往阿富汗，突访在那里驻守的数千英国士兵，以提升他们的士气。

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Then there was Idris Elba, a British film icon praised for his role as a warlord in Beasts of No Nation.

另一位是英国电影领军人物伊德瑞斯•艾尔巴，他在电影《无境之兽》中饰演的军阀角色备受褒奖。

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South East Cornwall Conservative MP Sheryll Murray said the former Prime Minister was a major British statesperson and an "absolute icon".

BBC: Cornwall remembers Margaret Thatcher

But with the reissue of "Diamond Day" 30 years later, she suddenly found herself being praised as an icon in a revised history of British folk music.

NPR: British Folk Music, Revived

Another icon of British Bombay, the Norman-Gothic exterior covers a magical selection of stalls.

BBC: Mumbai in a day