【跟着英剧练发音】A History Of Britain - 12 E

 The person we usually think of as embodying¹ British national resistance to Rome, Queen Boudicca of the East Anglian tribe of the Iceni, actually came from a family of happy, even eager collaborators. It only took a policy of incredible stupidity, arrogance² and brutality³ on the part of the local Roman governor to turn her from a warm supporter of Rome into its most dangerous enemy.

译文：

提起不列颠民族抗击罗马的领袖，人们自然而然会想到东盎格鲁部落的爱西尼女王布迪卡。她本来自一个乐于甚至渴望与罗马结盟的家族。只因当地的罗马长官一项愚蠢至极，傲慢而又暴虐残忍的政策，让这本温和的支持者，倒戈成了危险劲敌。

1 embodying   

v.表现( embody的现在分词 )；象征；包括；包含

参考例句：

• Every instrument constitutes an independent contract embodying a payment obligation. 每张票据都构成一份独立的体现支付义务的合同。 来自口语例句
• Fowth, The aesthetical transcendency and the beauty embodying the man's liberty. \" 第四部分：审美的超越和作为人类自由最终体现的“美”。 来自互联网

2 arrogance   

n.傲慢，自大

参考例句：

• His arrogance comes out in every speech he makes.他每次讲话都表现得骄傲自大。
• Arrogance arrested his progress.骄傲阻碍了他的进步。

3 brutality   

n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军