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  3. " Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather. " This statement, often made by Englishmen to describe the peculia

" Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather. " This statement, often made by Englishmen to describe the peculia

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问题 " Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather. " This statement, often made by Englishmen to describe the peculiar meteorological conditions of their country, is both revealing and true. It is revealing because in it we see the Englishman insisting once again that what happens in England is not the same as what happens elsewhere; its truth can be ascertained by any foreigner who stays in the country for longer than a few days. In England one can experience almost every kind of weather except the most extreme. The snag is that we never can be sure when the different sorts of weather in one day, but we may very well get a spell of winter in summer and vice versa.
This uncertainty about the weather has had a definite effect upon the Englishman’ s character; it tends to make him cautious, for example. The foreigner may laugh when he sees the Englishman setting forth on a brilliantly sunny morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, but he may well regret his laughter later in the day! The English weather has also helped to make the Englishman adaptable. It has been said that one of the reasons why the English colonized so much of the world was that, whatever the weather conditions they met abroad, they had already experienced something like them at home!
And, of course, the weather’ s variety provides a constant topic of conversation. Even the most taciturn of Englishmen is always prepared to discuss the weather. And, though he sometimes complains bitterly of it, he would not, even if he could, exchange it for the more predictable climate of other lands.
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答案 “别的国家有一种气候，在英国我们只有天气。”这是常被英国人用来描述他们国家特有气象的一句话。这句话真实地描述了英国的气候。说它真实，是因为通过英国的气候，我们可以看到英国人又一次坚持认为，英国发生的一切有别于世界上其他地区发生的事。任何一位呆在这儿超过几天的外国人都可以感觉到这一点。在英国你可以体验到每一种天气，但不包括极端气候。麻烦的是我们从不能预料何时某种类型的天气会出现，我们不仅在一天中感受到不同类型的天气，而且，我们在夏天可以感受到冬天，在冬天可以感受到夏天。 这种天气的不确定性对英国人的性格有着一定的影响。例如：这会让他小心谨慎。当看到一个英国人在阳光灿烂的早晨穿着雨衣，带着一把伞时，外国人可能会嘲笑英国人，但随后他会为他的嘲笑感到后悔!英国天气还帮助增强英国人的适应性，据说这是英国可以殖民统治世界上很多国家的原因之一。无论他们在外国面临何种天气状况，他们都已经在国内感受过类似的天气。 当然，变化无常的天气为英国人提供了聊天时的一个常规话题，即使最沉默寡言的英国人也愿意谈论一下天气。尽管有时候英国人对天气牢骚满腹，但若说要与其他地方可预测的气候做交换，即使可能，他也不愿意这样做。
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