英国精英们所议论着的无非是英国在世界这个大舞台上的角色。

The very word suggests strutting and fretting your hour upon the stage, and British elite discourse is very much about the figure we cut upon "the world stage".

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温斯顿·丘吉尔也是如此，他差点从英国一所精英学校哈罗公学退学。

So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school.

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这个国家的精英成员和西方有许多私人关系：他们在伦敦有财产，把自己的孩子送到英国和美国的大学读书，还有外国银行账户。

Members of the country's elite have many personal ties with the West: they own property in London, send their children to British and American universities and hold foreign bank accounts.

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Moreover, in the case of England, there was tremendous fluidity between elites.

不仅如此,在英国,精英阶层之间的流动非常频繁

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Again, the elite in Britain were scared, because you've got all these Ranter groups and Levelers and people who believe that everybody ought to have the right to vote, whether they have property or not and people that believe in the right of women.

英国的精英们被吓得要死,英国当时有各种喧骚派团体,平均主义者以及民众,他们相信每个人都应该享有投票的权力,不论贫富,还有人认为妇女也应有投票权

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