【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E02 - 27

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C – Christopher Tietjens

V – Valentine Wannop

C: Oh, don't believe that! I love every field and hedgerow. The land is England, and once it was the foundation¹ of order, before money took over and handed the country over to the swindlers and schemers. Toryism of the pig's trough.

V: Then what is your Toryism?

C: Duty. Duty and service to above and below. Frugality²... Keeping your word, honouring³ the past. Looking after your people and beggaring yourself if need be before letting duty go hang. If we'd stayed out of it, I'd have gone over to France to fight for France, for agriculture⁴ against industrialism, for the 18th century against the 20th, if you like. Hoped you'd understand.

V: Oh, I understand you! You're as innocent⁵ about yourself as a child. You would've thought all the same things in the 18th century.

C: Of course I would, and I would have been right! But you do make one collect one's thoughts.

1 foundation   

n.[pl.]地基；基础；基金会；建立，创办

参考例句：

• The foundation of the university took place 600 years ago.这所大学是600年前创办的。
• The Foundation gives money to help artists.那家基金会捐款帮助艺术家。

2 frugality   

n.节约，节俭

参考例句：

• We must build up our country with industry and frugality.我们必须勤俭建国。
• By frugality she managed to get along on her small salary.凭着节俭，她设法以自己微薄的薪水生活。

3 honouring   

vt.尊敬（honour的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Is it honouring your husband to dishonour his business? 害得你丈夫的业务倒霉就是尊重他么？ 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
• A honouring and obeying wife would let his trade alone altogether. 尊重丈夫、服从丈夫的老婆是不会干扰他的业务的。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

4 agriculture   

n.农学；农业

参考例句：

• Problems also exist in agriculture.农业也存在着一些问题。
• Computers have also begun serving agriculture.计算机也开始为农业服务了。

5 innocent   

adj.无罪的，清白的；无害的；天真的，单纯的

参考例句：

• I'm not quite so innocent as to believe that.我还不至于简单到相信那种事的地步。
• I was very young,and very innocent.我那时非常年轻，幼稚无知。