标题: Conservatism of the English People 英国人的保守 [打印本页] 作者: Helen 时间: 2020-9-13 11:43 标题: Conservatism of the English People 英国人的保守 回帖下载音频及双语文本：
Conservatism refers to the acceptance of anything familiar and refusal of anything strange or foreign. There are numerous facts that tell the conservatism of the Englishmen.
The monarchy as nominal head of the state still exists in the highly developed capitalist country.
在这样一个高度发达的资本主义国家，君主作为国家名义上的统治者而仍然存在。
The national anthem was, is and will be in the near 1000 years the old "God Save the King (or Queen)".
英国的国歌过去是、现在是、也许再过1000年还是那首古老的“上帝拯救国王（或女王）”。
English judges as usual wear long wigs in law courts.
英国的法官在法庭上依然戴着长长的假发。
Despite the fact that the feudal class is a term of only history significance, noble titles are conferred on distinguished persons, who would accept the titles as something of the greatest honor.
Many Englishmen still spend lots of money keeping dummy fireplaces that are of no value at all, although their rooms are heated by gas or electric fire. They find it difficult to say goodbye to the past.
As the first country to complete the industrial revolution, Britain refused to introduce decimal system until 1971. Pence, shilling, pound and inch, foot, yard... all these are hard to be forgotten.
English people are always suspicious of any new plans of the government. Today they are still doubtful of the Europe integration plan, thus they are reluctant to allow pound to be integrated into Euro Dollars.