【跟着英剧练发音】The Queens Palaces E01-3

 文本：

If you had to pick just one room which encapsulates what Buckingham Palace represents, it's this one. The Throne Room. And you're in no doubt where the seat of power lies. The two chairs on a raised dais, one for Queen Elizabeth the Second, one for her consort¹, Prince Philip. And you might pick that the Queen has sat on that seat many times during her reign² and received dozens of heads of state here. But you'd be wrong. This room is purely³ symbolic⁴, and she's only sat on that chair the once, at her coronation in 1953.

 

翻译：

如果要挑选一个房间作为白金汉宫的代表，那么非这间莫属。宝座室，宝座所代表的权力毋庸置疑，高台上的两张椅子，一张是伊丽莎白二世女王的，一张是她丈夫菲利普亲王的。你可能会挑选在女王统治期间，她经常坐在那张椅子上接见各国元首。事实上不是这样，这个房间纯粹是个象征，她只在那张椅子上坐过一次，就是在1953年加冕的时候。

1 consort   

v.相伴；结交

参考例句：

• They went in consort two or three together.他们三三两两结伴前往。
• The nurses are instructed not to consort with their patients.护士得到指示不得与病人交往。

2 reign   

n.统治时期，统治，支配，盛行；v.占优势

参考例句：

• The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
• The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。

3 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

4 symbolic   

adj.象征性的，符号的，象征主义的

参考例句：

• It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
• The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。