Anglophilia is an obsession not with the English per se but with that stratum of them best described as positively smashing.

英国崇拜是指，对那个他们所谓的极为了不起的社会阶层的痴迷，并非对英国人本身。

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Fortunately for the British, his Anglophilia survived the rebuff he received as a young man when his admiration for William Pitt the Elder had led him to knock on the door of Pitt's house in London, by then the home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

ECONOMIST: Caspar Weinberger