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adj. 英国的；英国人的；大不列颠的
n. 英国人

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Much of the criticism is directed at the British Airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.

It’s: why are the British so cold? And they’re talking about the British personality—the famous British reserve.

Woolworths is one of the best known names on the British High Street.

The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.

"Antarctica creates a hostile environment," says the operation director for the British Antarctic Survey.

A 2009 University of British Columbia study of women with an eating disorder who were taught to knit found that learning the craft led to significant improvements.

After making a stop for a few hours at a British station on the edge of Antarctica, the two workers were flown to the southernmost Chilean city of Punta Arenas.

In 2013, 62 British films with a budget over £500,000 were produced, compared with 87 in 2011, figures from the British Film Institute showed.

It's spoken in many countries of the world because of the British Empire.

Many of us grow up believing that skipping breakfast is a serious mistake, even if only two thirds of adults in the UK eat breakfast regularly, according to the British dietetic Association, and around three-quarters of Americans.

Much of the criticism is directed at the British airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.

That's why the British don't like flats.

The British airports Authority, recently bought by a Spanish company, says the root cause of the problem is not the ownership structure, but a lack of runway and terminal capacity, which it's addressing through a programme of heavy investment.

The British government has called for more men to consider a career in nursing.

The Competition Commission is now to investigate whether the British airports Authority needs to sell off some of its assets.

In a chaotic two days of flying, the rescue team flew 3,000 miles roundtrip from the British station Rothera to pick up the workers at the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole.

They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.

To do this, the team used data from the British Household Panel Survey compiled by the University of Essex.

Woolworths is one of the best known names on the British high Street.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

It is manufactured by a famous British company.

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

They made more British people obese.

In the UK, new studies are in development and social scientists are regularly spotted in British government offices.

While fully 64% of all U.S. high school graduates attend college of some point in their life, just 30% of the comparable German population, 28% of the French, 20% of the British, and 37%of the Japanese proceed beyond high school.

American educates so manymore people at university that one can’t expect all those who go to be as intelligent as the much narrower band in British universities, says the professor Christopher Rakes at Boston university, I’m not against elitism, but I happen to like having people who are more eager to learn.

For more than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren.

After making inquiries Hughes discovered that they were being composed on computers, then just finding their way into British homes

Part of the problem is that it is basically incomprehensible," says Blofeld, one of the settlement's most vocal British critics.

The monopoly of British Railways.

Because British railways are a nationalized industry

What does the woman say about British railways?

What could British people expect if they maintain a normal body weight according to the WCRF

The British industrialist James Louis, held by kidnappers in Central Africa for the past 8 months, was released unharmed yesterday.

What happened to British industrialist James Louis

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian style one which would cost £145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical w

I'm a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia.

It is not only polite, it is essential if we want to sell British products overseas.

mixed bathing was permitted on British beaches in 1901.

Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

That is the fact that not everyone is British, not everyone speaks English and not everyone does business in a British way.

A study of British accents during 1970s found that a voice sounding like a BBC newsreader was viewed as the most attractive voice.

British attitudes towards accent have a long tradition.

Class is a key part of British society.

However, a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC english as the least.

If you liked Wallace and Gromit's previous adventures and you appreciate the British sense of humour, you'll love this film.

It is the center of an important industry in the everyday lives of the British people.

Most British people drink tea that way.

My ambassadorial duties will include introducing British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.

One unchanging aspect of a British person's class position is accent.

Pupils at about 90 percent of British secondary schools wear uniforms.

Robins are singing all night--as well as during the day, British-based researchers say.

Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the south pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.

Tea is the British national drink.

The beatles were described as a British invasion入侵by local and nationwide newspapers at that time.

The British museum opened in 1759?

The tasters generally taste teas with milk, since that is how the majority of British people drink their tea.

These colourful and sweet jewels form British Columbia's fields are little powerhouses of nutritional protection.

This suggests that British attitudes towards accent have deep roots and are based on class prejudice.

Thus, class may not be culturally and politically obvious, yet it remains an important part of British society.

For example, British anthropologists Grafton Elliot Smith and W.

Coinciding with the groundbreaking theory of biological evolution proposed by British naturalist Charles Darwin in the 1860s, British social philosopher Herbert Spencer put forward his own theory of biological and cultural evolution.

An interest in the relationship between the function of society and culture became a major theme in European, and especially British, anthropology.

The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.

In the late 1800s British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans combed antique dealers’ stores in Athens, Greece.

British archaeologist Howard Carter knew that the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun existed from information found in other sites.

While Europe’s monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.

David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future as qualified multilingual youngsters from other countries are proving to have a competitive advantage over their British counterparts in global companies and organizations.

Alongside that,many countries are introducing English into the primary-school curriculum but British schoolchildren and students do not appear to be gaining greater encouragement to achieve fluency in other languages.

His father was a clerk in the British navy pay office –a respectable position, but wish little social status.

A series of fires ( ' , including those set by the British in 1814) and overcrowded conditions led to the construction of the existing Treasury Building.

British Land Art as shown in this well selected, but relatively modestly scaled exhibition wasn't about imposing on the landscape, more a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art created passing through.

Comprising artists Mark Boyle and Joan hills and their children, they recreated random sections of the British landscape on gallery walls.

Generally however British land artists preferred to get away from towns, gravitating towards landscapes that are traditionally considered beautiful such as the Lake District or the Wiltshire Downs.

his father was a clerk in the British Navy Pay office—a respectable position, but with little social status.

In the late 1800s British archaeologist sir Arthur Evans combed antique dealers'stores in Athens, Greece.

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

The British land art, typified by Richard Long's piece, was not only more domestically scaled, but a lot quirkier than its American counterpart.

While Europe's monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.