时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


英语课
Twenty five years ago British forces secured a great victory in a noble cause. The whole nation rejoiced at the success; and we should still rejoice. Aggression 1 was defeated and reversed. The wishes of local people were upheld as paramount 2. Britain's honour and interests prevailed. Sending troops into battle is the gravest decision that any Prime Minister has to take. To fight eight thousand miles away from home, in perilous 3 conditions, against a well armed, if badly led, enemy was bound to be an awesome 4 challenge. Moreover, at such times there is no lack of people, at home and abroad, to foretell 5 disaster. Then, when things go well, they are just as quick to press some hopeless compromise. So we could never at any stage be sure what the outcome of the Falklands War would be. But of two other things I could be sure---first that our cause was just, and second that no finer troops could be found in the world than those of our country.

So, as we recall---and give thanks for---the liberation of our Islands, let us also recall the many battlefronts where British forces are engaged today. There are in a sense no final victories, for the struggle against evil in the world is never ending. Tyranny and violence wear many masks. Yet from victory in the Falklands we can all today draw hope and strength.

Fortune does, in the end, favour the brave. And it is Britain’s good fortune that none are braver than our armed forces. Thank you all.


1 aggression
n.进攻,侵略,侵犯,侵害
  • So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结,就不必惧怕外来侵略。
  • Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。
2 paramount
a.最重要的,最高权力的
  • My paramount object is to save the Union and destroy slavery.我的最高目标是拯救美国,摧毁奴隶制度。
  • Nitrogen is of paramount importance to life on earth.氮对地球上的生命至关重要。
3 perilous
adj.危险的,冒险的
  • The journey through the jungle was perilous.穿过丛林的旅行充满了危险。
  • We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis.历经一连串危机,我们如今已安然无恙。
4 awesome
adj.令人惊叹的,难得吓人的,很好的
  • The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
5 foretell
v.预言,预告,预示
  • Willow trees breaking out into buds foretell the coming of spring.柳枝绽青报春来。
  • The outcome of the war is hard to foretell.战争胜负难以预卜。
学英语单词
abatement of fire hazard
airspace control order
alpha cruces
anchor impeller
axial flow pump
Bacillariaceae
bast ring
benchmark survey
besire
big bickies
breakax
brenstone
capacitance unbalance protection device
carcomycin
catcher space
celluronic acid
ch'?ng kung wu
charfields
check valve spring
chutney-soca
coefficient of linear extensibility
common-sense realism
condenser gasket
cribriform carcinoma of breast
cymbal
deck dowel
deoxyribonuclic acid (dna)
Deutsches Reich
die off
Diospyros yunnanensis
electoresses
electrostatic spraying device
elementary direction characteris-tics
elsholtzia haichowensis sun
equivalent Z circuit
error recording
fascia spermatica interna
fat-extracted
ferula rubricaulis boiss.
FIGJAM
flammeas
gear box draining pump
generator under-frequency protection
get off my back
hand scoop
hinayana buddhisms
histiopteris incisa
human characteristic
immune agglutinin
inactive zone
ischiopodites
Kapitza thermal resistance
Konergino
light(-)escape boundary
log peg
LtHo
membership degree
metatrophic bacteria
minimal-access routine
misoprostols
net worth to assets ratio
non-additive effect
noncitizenship
nonrationalistic
nonshrinkable
NVIDIA SHIELD
omul
polyarthropathies
polynomial evaluation
preformatting
profaners
professional team
pulley axle
pulverises
quadrupole quantization
racial abhorrence
radiation-type dryer
reheater flow stoppage protection
risk of war
separator insert
shared waters
sheinfeld
shieldednucleus
Silene morrisonmontana
sisimbrium
space line
spit-shining
sporadic distribution of salinity
spray wire
steady uniform flow
succenturiate kidney
telegraph distribution machine
terminal cisternae (of sarcoplasmic reticulum)
the-colony
Trigonella emodi
ventlating machine
WAVFH
whipsawing
wild potato vine
with the skin of our teeth
Wp.
wrongful civil proceeding