【跟着英剧练发音】A History Of Britain - 21A

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The symbol not of  imperial grandeur¹, but of  crushing national annihilation, a permanent, daily, wounding reminder² of conquest and humiliation³.

The most colossal⁴ exercise, in fact, incolonial domination anywhere in medievalEurope.Beneath the lion standard of Edward Plantagenet, the Welsh inhabitants had nowbecome second-class citizens in their own country.

Well, those natives were treated forthe most part like naughty children, not allowed to bear arms, of course, buteven forced to ask permission if they wanted strangers to stay at their houseovernight. Worst of all, I think, the Welsh were doomed⁵ by English superiorityto become objects of terminal quaintness⁷. The quaint⁶ language, the quaintsongs, those amusing choirs⁸ and chants.

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这些堡垒并非为了昭示帝国的辉煌，而是要泯灭威尔士的民族意识，象征着征服和凌辱，将威尔士骑在身下。根据中世纪欧洲的殖民统治惯例，在金雀花王朝的爱德华统治下，威尔士人民在自己的国土上成为了二等公民。统治者对待那些原住民就像对待不听话的孩子，他们当然是不准携带武器的，但竟然连留宿外乡人，也需要得到批准。但我认为最糟糕的是在英格兰的特权统治下，威尔士的古老文化注定将走向消亡，古老的语言，古雅的民谣，还有那些动人的赞美诗