【跟着英剧练发音】A History Of Britain - 16 B（在线收听）

 When we think of Hadrian's Wall, we tend to think of the Romans rather like US cavalrymen deep in Indian country, defending the flag, peering through the cracks and waiting nervously for war drums and smoke signals. A place where paranoia sweated from every stone. But it wasn't really like that at all. As fantastically ambitious as this was, stretching 73 miles from coast to coast from the Solway to the Tyne, and although Hadrian probably conceived it in response to a rebellion on the part of those people in the Romans loftily referred to as "Brittunculi"-nasty wretched little Brits.