本帖最后由 pan 于 2022-9-19 16:27 编辑
Today's Challenges for Advanced Learners.
The speech is well-written, well-delivered. It's one of the best reports I have heard recently. So here I am to share it with you.
From the BBC Podcast of Global News 20220919
Here are the files.
20220919-BritainAndTheWorldP 1111.rar
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Here's my transcript. Any comment is welcome and appreciated.
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The last ten days have been about two distinct events: the passing of a queen and the making of a king. The plans have been in place for decades. Every feather and flag, every step and turn, choreographed in meticulous detail. The transfer of power and authority is designed as an illustration of national competence, Britain showing its people and the world that even at a time of flux, it knows what it is doing.
There is a purpose in the performance, too, binding king and kingdom in the gold braid of reassuring custom. Questions over the future of the monarchy and the union are answered with ceremonial conviction, albeit that much of the pageantry is an invention from the last century.
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本帖隐藏的内容But the respectful public response is real. Pilgrimages to palaces. The reverential rituals of flowers and flames. A communion with the sacred; not just Instagram.
We have seen hostilities put to one side, political opponents standing respectfully together, Princes - William and Harry - finding a fraternal truce, industrial disputes and sporting rivalries postponed. FULHAM AND CHELSEA, AlloAH and FALKIrk, DERBIES - for another day. But normal service will resume (SOUNDS LIKE "RESUMED"), with the trials of real life. In facing those significant challenges, the country may have been strengthened by this period of reflection: a rare moment to think about who we are, and who we want to be.
Pan.
2022.09.19
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