Unlike the English, the Scots retain a "not proven" verdict in their criminal courts, and the unappealing prospect in sight is of this being the effective outcome of the Lockerbie case.
与英国不同,苏格兰在刑事案件中保留了“证据不足”的判决,眼下令人不快的景象正是由洛克比案的此种审判结果所带来的。
Attempts to smite vice in Scotland sometimes prepare the way for similar measures elsewhere: the Scots banned smoking in public buildings, for example, a year before the English did.
因为,有时在苏格兰进行打击恶行的行动会促使其它地方采取相同的措施。比如,苏格兰禁止在公共建筑物内吸烟,一年后英国效仿了该禁令。
U.K. regional dialects, such as Scots, Irish, Welsh, and Northern English are hard for foreigners to understand and Cockney is impossible. So don't speak like the BBC does these days: -.
英国地区方言,如苏格兰、爱尔兰、威尔士或英国北部方言对国外人而言难以理解(伦敦腔简直不可能)。
The trouble is that Britishness is hard to define-especially since devolution has encouraged the Scots, Welsh and even English to prefer their more specific identities-and even harder to inculcate.
问题是,很难给“英国性”下一个定义——尤其是权力下放鼓励了苏格兰,威尔士,甚至英格兰去寻求它们自己更加独特的身份特征后——要想灌输这种“英国性”就更难了。
The empire, Mr Devine points out, was an emphatically British venture in which the Scots saw themselves as equal partners with the English, giving them self-respect as well as prosperity.
德文先生指出,王国的组建绝对是英国的一次冒险,苏格兰人从此认识到他们可以与英格兰人平等合作,他们从中获得了自信和财富。
The English were heavily defeated by the Scots in the battle that followed.
英格兰人在之后的那场战役中被苏格兰人打得惨败。
The noun "Scots" refers to the Scottish dialect of the English language and scotch.
作名词时,指英语中的苏格兰方言或称苏格兰英语。
This sometimes annoys the Scots or the Welsh who do not regard themselves as English and who have a culture and even a language of their own.
这些时常引起一些不认为自已是英国人,有着自己文化甚至有自己语言的苏格兰人和威尔士人的不悦。
Scots is the dialect of English used in the Lowlands of Scotland.
她讲话带着明显的苏格兰口音。
Scots is the dialect of English used in the Lowlands of Scotland.
她讲话带着明显的苏格兰口音。
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