britain
美 [ˈbrɪt(ə)n] 
英 ['brɪt(ə)n]
- n.不列颠（包括英格兰、苏格兰及威尔士）
- 网络英国；大不列颠；不列颠岛
英汉双解
1. | 不列颠（包括英格兰、苏格兰及威尔士）the island containing England, Scotland and Wales |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Inflation in Britain fell by more than expected in April to its lowest level in more than a year, official data released today showed.
据今天公布的官方数据显示，英国四月份通货膨胀率超预期降低，至一年多来的最低水平。
America, Britain and a number of European countries also place in the top left-hand corner of the chart.
美国、英国和一些欧洲国家也位于图表左上角。
GDP per person of working age rose at more than double the rate of Germany, faster than Britain and close to that of the US.
日本适工年龄人群的人均GDP增长率其实比德国高逾一倍，增长速度比英国更快，接近于美国。
Although Britain is indeed a good place to put wind turbines, the wind, like the weather, is notoriously variable.
尽管英国的确是一个发展风轮机的好地方，但是风力，像天气一样，无常多变。
"You say Gaddafi is going to leave his country, " he thundered, banging his fist on the table, railing against the U. S. and Britain.
他暴跳如雷，用拳头捶打着桌子，怒骂美国和英国：“你们说卡扎菲应该离开他的国家。”
Former business secretary John Hutton said the scale and depth of the economic conditions Britain was facing were "unprecedented" .
前商业大臣约翰赫顿表示，英国所面临经济环境的深度和广度都是“前所未有的”。
In Britain, at least among the middle-class downshifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
（考研真题）在英国，至少在我所熟知的追求事业和生活简单化的中产阶级人士中，追求简化生活是出于不同的原因的。
In Britain, 70% of smokers say that they would like to stop smoking, and of these smokers, 83% have tried more than once to give it up.
在英国，有70%的吸烟者说他们愿意戒烟。同时，这些吸烟者当中，有83%的人已不止一次地试过把烟戒掉。
NARRATOR: During the dark war years, Britain had been governed by a coalition of conservatives and socialists.
旁白：在黑暗的战争年代，英国由保守党和社会主义者共同统治。
Yet the Victorians built railways and city halls for their descendants in what was one of Britain's most optimistic eras.
然而，维多利亚时代的人在国家繁荣的时期为他们的后裔们营造了的铁路和市政厅。
A deal with a company operating in Britain is likely within a year, she said.
Blasco说，可能会在一年内跟一家英国公司实现合作。
It is often alleged that something like this happened in 1931 when Britain left the gold standard for the last time.
人们常常声称，在1931年英国最后一次脱离金本位时，就曾出现类似的情况。
President Obama said the U. S. , Britain, France, and Arab states agreed the cease-fire must be implemented immediately.
奥巴马说，美国、英国、法国和阿拉伯国家一致认为，停火必须立即执行。
The word "lobbying" as a name for these campaigns dates back at least to 18th-century Britain.
这些活动又称为“院外活动”，此一词至少可以追溯到18世纪的英国。
In some parts of Britain, one person in ten, by the age of thirty, has no teeth left!
在英国一些地方，十人中有一人不到三十岁，牙就掉光了。
Her suggestions that Britain's austerity may be have gone too far was met with a cold shoulder in London.
另外，她还曾暗示英国实行的紧缩政策可能做得太过，而伦敦方面则对此不予理睬。
And yet as the Games come to a close, here in Sheffield as well as all over Britain, a patriotic delirium has descended.
然而，就在伦敦奥运会即将划上终点之际，在谢菲尔德乃至整个英国，某种爱国主义的兴奋悄然而至。
Like the French, the Spanish seem to consider Britain's BBC, which has no advertising on its domestic service, as a model.
像法国一样，西班牙可能将英国BBC看作其模型，BBC在国内播放的节目中是没有广告的。
"Mad Dogs and Englishmen" , one of his songs, is still part of Britain's cultural subconscious.
他其中的一首歌“疯狗们与英国绅士们”到目前仍是英国文化潜意识的一部分。
Britain, at least, was able to tailor its interest rates to local conditions, but not by enough to prevent a housing bubble.
至少英国还能根据本土情况定制利率，但这仍不足以防止房市泡沫。
The new theme park will be Britain's answer to Disneyland.
英国新的主题乐园可与迪斯尼乐园媲美。
I spend a lot of time in Britain but Paris is still my base.
我有很多时间在英国度过，但主要还是居住在巴黎。
The play is being cast in both the US and Britain.
目前正在英美两国挑选这部戏的演员。
Britain converted to decimal currency on February 15th, 1971.
英国于1971年2月15日改用十进位币制。
Lung cancer kills 40, 000 people each year in Britain.
每年英国有4万人死于肺癌。
From what my father says, he more or less commanded the Battle of Britain.
照我父亲说，“英国战役”大致就是他指挥的。
Japan would not hesitate to court or attempt to wage war both against Great Britain and the United States.
日本将毫不迟疑地寻衅或企图对大不列颠和美国同时作战。
Great Britain's air force and, to a lesser extent, her ground and sea forces were largely pinned down to the defense of her home country.
英国空军及其小规模陆海军，均着眼于基本上的防御。
When the Governments of France and Britain realized the terrible transformation which had taken place, it was too late.
当法英两国政府发现这种可怕的变化时，已经太迟了。
They developed extraordinary memories for faces, instantly recognizing KGB officers who had been out of Britain for years.
他们对面孔有非凡的记忆力，对已经离开英国多年的克格勃军官能够马上认出来。
In late June 1942 the press of the United States and Great Britain was echoing the Russian cry for a "second front" .
1942年6月下旬，美英响应苏俄的呼吁，“开辟第二战场”。
But the American phrase "grown man" leaves out the preposition and this neologism is now taking hold in Britain.
但是美国词组“grownman”略去了介词，这个新词语如今正在英国扎了根。
The finest scientific brains in both Britain and America were called upon to help us in evaluation and in making estimates of probabilities.
英美两国之最优科学家，均奉召协助我们判断敌人对于新武器进步之可能性。
The Twenty Committee has made it quite clear that they expect me to make sure there are not any decent Abwehr agents in Britain.
“双十委员会”明确指出，他们期望我查明，在英国确实不存在“阿勃韦尔”派来的精明强干的间谍。
He's never been anywhere outside Britain.
他从来没有去过英国以外的任何地方。
Toadstools were collected from a range of pure stands of Betula and Pinus both in Britain and the U. S. A.
从英国和美国一系列桦木和松树纯林中收集蕈体。
Right or wrong in her convictions about what is the remedy for Britain's ills, she has been utterly true to her own belief.
且不论她对重振英国的主张是否正确，她对自己的主张始终坚信不移。
Hitler could not conceive that Britain would not accept a peace offer after the collapse of France.
希特勒没有想到，在法国崩溃之后，不列颠还是不接受和平建议。
The Battle of Britain's awfully tired, though, isn't it? I don't know if he'd mean anything today, Matty.
不过“英国战役”无聊透了，是不是？梅蒂，我不知道他现在还有什么重要性。
Forests are now submerged around the coast of Britain.
英国海岸周围现在有水下森林。
Golitsin said that he knew of a famous "Ring of Five" spies, recruited in Britain in the 1930's.
戈里钦说，他听说过一个有名的“五人间谍网”，是30年代在英国招募的。
This attitude earned them rebukes both in Britain and in the United States.
这种态度不论在英国或美国都受到抨击。
By enacting the first statues of this kind from 1896 to 1909, Australia and Great Britain provided inspiration to American reformers.
澳大利亚和英国在1896至1909年制订出最早的这类立法，给了美国改革者以灵感。
The Romans introduced roads into Britain.
罗马人把路引进英国。
In Britain, the Arts Council gives grants to theatres.
英国的艺术委员会向剧院提供资金。
This explanation of Britain's rise was partly valid.
对英国崛起所作的这种解释部份是站得住脚的。
The struggle between those who wanted to help Britain and those who wanted to remain neutral did not follow traditional party lines.
之间的那些谁想要帮助英国和那些谁想要保持中立没有按照传统的党派斗争。
The rest of the world would consider Britain to be "completely mad" if the government abandoned its deficit reduction plans, he said.
如果政府放弃赤字削减计划的话，其他国家会认为英国“彻底疯了”，他说。
" By the United States and Britain agree to and sign a secret agreement, the Bank called " Yalta Agreement.
得到美国和英国的同意，并签订秘密协议，世称「雅尔达协议」。
It was during Anne's reign that the name great Britain came into being when in 1707, the Act of Union united England and Scotland.
正是安妮统治之1707年，大不列颠这个名称产生，《联合法》把英格兰和苏格兰统一起来。
Rossy said he had watched passenger ferries cutting a path between the Britain and France as he tore through the air.
罗斯说当他在上空飞翔的时候，他看到了乘客们坐着摆渡船在海峡上徐徐开出一条水道。
Britain is still locked into a gradual, half-willing decline, destined to be less loved by its closest ally than it would like.
英国继续受困于半不情愿的渐衰之中，注定不能像其希望的那般为亲近盟国所喜爱。
But as he sat down with Britain's Gordon Brown, Mr. Obama stressed the international nature of the economic crisis.
但是奥巴马在和英国首相布朗会谈时强调了经济危机的国际性。
Britain is one of Ireland's main trading partners and creditors, so it has good reasons not to want its neighbour to go under.
英国是爱尔兰主要贸易伙伴之一，所以英国政府有很好的理由不想他的邻国破产。
The bank was based in Iceland but a substantial chunk of its business came from Britain.
该银行总部在冰岛，但有相当多的业务来自英国。
FOR Lord Hoffmann, one of Britain's most respected law lords, it should have been a no-brainer.
对于英国最受尊敬的大法官之一，Hoffmann勋爵，来说这是一个不需要经过大脑就可以回答的问题。
For all that, the private university looks like an idea whose time has finally come in Britain.
尽管如此，私立大学--看起来像一个终于在英国等到了春天的创想。
The Continental Congress as they battle the forces of Britain, while trying to rally their countrymen to the cause of liberty.
大陆会议，因为他们对英国的战斗力量，同时努力争取他们的同胞的自由事业。
Add it to the list of ill-advised statements from the gaffe-happy mayor that, months later, he finds himself in just such a Britain.
当这位失态的市长发表这份缺根弦儿的声明的几个月后，他发现自己所在的伦敦真的成那个样子了。
The ruling came as anti- terrorism officials continued to investigate a reported plot to bomb flights from Britain to the United States .
法规是为反恐官员继续调查从英国到美国的航班的炸弹阴谋中得来的。
In Britain, the Bank of England is expected to cut rates in the next few days.
在英国，英格兰银行预计将在今后几天削减利率。
Ofcom, Britain's media regulator, is trying to force BSkyB to sell its games to other distributors for a fixed fee.
英国通讯传播委员会（Ofcom）也正在试图让天空电视台以固定的价格将体育比赛分给其他公司播出。
Its main aim was to restore regional government to Stormont, which had been suspended since 1972 when Britain imposed direct rule.
与此同时，他也在竭力促成《星期五和平协定》，旨在恢复地方政府于1972年英国实行直接统治时中止的斯托蒙特议会。
It also means that Britain is losing out on the chance of building a new industry out of their world leading position.
这也意味着英国正在失去打造世界领先新产业的机会。
Arcane discussions about treaty change and rows about Britain's place in Europe have been the stuff of EU summits for literally generations.
围绕条约修订的秘密讨论，以及关于英国在欧洲地位的吵闹，在几代人的时间里，一直存在于欧盟峰会上。
I certainly do not want to see Britain lose its pre-eminence in financial services, but a measure of rebalancing seems appropriate.
我当然不想看到英国失去在金融服务业的卓越地位，但一定程度的再平衡看来很有必要。
