British

英[ˈbrɪtɪʃ]美[ˈbrɪtɪʃ]

adj.不列颠的，英国的，英国人的，英国英语的；

n.（总称）英国人，英国英语；

名词：Britishness;

例句

Twelve British servicemen were killed yesterday.昨天十二名英国*人被杀。

British shipping has decreased.英国的船舶总数已经减少。

British forces will be drawn out of the troubled area.英国*队将撤离这个动乱地区。

In my considered opinion, ‘Trainspotting’ is one of the best British movies ever made.仔细想来，我认为《猜火车》是英国*好的电影之一。

Major changes will have to be brought about in British industry.英国工业必须实行重大改革。

a period when the British enjoyed supremacy in international trade英国享有国际贸易*大优势的时期

History shows that New Zealand are almost unbeatable by British teams on their own turf.以往的记录表明新西兰队在主场赛马中几乎从来没有输给英国队。

He claims to be distantly related to the British royal family.他声称自己与英国王室是远亲。

The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.英格兰的君主*体在英国文化中起重要作用。

The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

英语四级真题

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.

英语六级真题

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.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ

英国的；英国人的；英国文化的

British means belonging or relating to the United Kingdom, or to its people or culture.

例句

N-PLURAL

英国人

The British are the people of Great Britain.

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the people of Great Britain

Adjective

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture;