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
agilte
anonymizer
antimould
aortic branches
Arrino
Asahel
autoactivates
Avlemonas
bacteria genus
bathing garment
benzologue
certificate of origin form B
charge displacement
cog free wheel
Corydamine
cosmene
Cowboy State
criorhina shirakii
day-to-day lease
Dolomitiche, Alpi
drake device
dry element air cleaner
Erythronium sibiricum
evaporative emission control system
fulvidus
fundamental species
fuzzy control sys tem
gangler
gate actuating rod
geekin' out
get round sth
givees
heat recovery efficiency
heaving apex impulse
heptatomic ring
hydrologic series
indium diiodide
infracardiac
internet-ready
interrogatability
Itta Bena
itwin
lateroversion
loess erosion
material incentive
Muertos Cays
multiple grooved wheel
MX missile
myricaria laxa w.w.sm.
nature of problem
neutral wedge filter
nucleus funiculi gracilis
on the tip of one's tongue
on-line direct control
organic zeolite
Palanpur
pandeiros
personality test
possi
potling
power source for switch indication
predatorious
promotion
prothrombin,thrombinogen,thrombogen
pulsed triggering circuit
radius of vision
rear spring clamp
recaptors
reconciliation account
resist doing
roomly
rub salt into sb's wounds
San Domingo
screw ups
segmental neurofibromatosis
sharwoods
sheep maggot
Shirodkar
signantly
sitter
ski-racing
slalomers
squeegee process
stomach bug
subacute myelitis
supply channel
taken our pick from
tattering
tectonic intensity
Torguga, I.
transport channel
trypan-red
undathem
unrealized gross profits
user.dat
vehicle license plate
veillike
waimeas
watergrass
wayland
XSLpatterns
zingiberoside