britons

Who , then , are today 's Britons and what kind of people are they ?

那么，谁是今天的不列颠人，他们又是什么人呢？

Together these three peoples are known as Britons .

以上三个民族便是今日所说的不列颠人。

The survivors of the avalanche included 12 Britons .

雪崩的幸存者中有12名英国人。

Two out of every three Britons already own a video recorder

每3个英国人中就有两个已经有了录像机。

Reading books does not rate highly among Britons as a leisure activity .

读书并非英国人很喜欢的休闲活动。

Many Britons will still fear the potentially ruinous costs of their legal system .

很多英国人仍然会对其司法体系可能产生的高昂费用表示担忧。

Cigarettes kill over a hundred thousand Britons every year

每年香烟夺去10万多英国人的生命。

Most Britons want a traditional wedding .

大多数英国人都想要传统的婚礼。

Britons are spending twice as much on health tonics as they were five years ago

英国人如今在健康补药上花的钱是5年前的两倍。

So few teenage Britons stay on at school , compared with the rest of Europe

和欧洲其他国家相比，英国留在学校继续学习的青少年寥寥无几。

There were , oddly , few other Britons living in this northern part .

说来也怪，很少有其他英国人住在这一北部地区。

He is setting an example which other aristocrats and leading Britons should follow .

他为其他贵族和伦敦要人们树立了榜样。

They will affect generations of Britons still unborn .

他们将会影响还未出世的好几代英国人。

Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys .

英国人每年花在玩具上的钱超过10亿英镑。

The peace campaigners were probably out of tune with most Britons .

和平倡导者可能不被大部分英国人认同。

Four million Britons are now strict vegetarians

目前有400万英国人是严格的素食者。

Britons persist in treating any pay rise of less than 5 % as a slap in the face .

英国人坚持认为加薪不到5%不啻于一种羞辱。

Britons still consume more than 29 million pints a day , ranging over 1,000 or more different brews .

英国人每天仍然要喝掉2,900多万品脱、1,000多种不同牌子的啤酒。

Top of Britons ' toilet paper wish list is softness ( 57 % ) followed by strength ( 45 % ) and thickness ( 36 % ) .

英国人对厕纸的要求最高方面当属柔软度，占57%，紧随其后的是韧度，占45%，厚度，占36%。

For many Britons , making fun of yourself is a way of showing your strength of character .

对许多英国人来说，开自己的玩笑是展示自己性格力量的一种方式。

A lot of the time , Britons use self-depreciating humor .

很多时候，英国人都喜欢通过自我贬低来展示幽默感。

More than half of over-75s live alone – and about 1 million Britons are thought to suffer loneliness .

英国75岁以上的老人中，超过一半独居。据称大约100万英国人感到孤独。

The filthy5 results are perhaps not surprising considering 41 percent of 2000 Britons recently questioned by BISSELL admitted they had never washed their carpets .

必胜家居清洁最近对2000名英国人进行了调查，其中41%的人承认他们从未洗过地毯。因此上述“肮脏的”调查结果也许不足为奇。

But more than seven million Britons - dubbed the ' doomerangers ' - have been forced to do exactly that after a break-up because they can 't afford to live on their own , a survey found .

但调查显示，有超过700万英国人在与伴侣分手后却被迫这样做，因为他们无法负担自己居住的费用。他们被称为“离婚返巢族”。

Britons have a long tradition of moving around the world .

英国人拥有移居世界各地的悠久传统。

The research also found that Britons are getting lazy .

研究还发现，英国人变懒了。

A recent research shows that one third of the Britons are broke before payday .

近期一项研究结果显示，三分之一的英国人在每月发薪日前夕就已经处于身无分文的状态了。

For Britons , a couple of days over Christmas is often too much .

对英国人来说，与家人共度圣诞节就已经难以承受了。

The early signs are that Britons would opt to push off .

之前的信号表明，英国人可能会选择离开。

This makes London the first UK region where white ethnic Britons have become a minority .

这令伦敦成为首个英国白人占少数的英国地区。