While polls show Britons rate "the countryside" alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service (NHS) as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.
尽管民调显示,英国人将"乡村"与王室、莎士比亚和国家医疗服务体系(NHS)并列,视为让他们最引以为豪的国家象征,但这种观念在政治上却缺乏广泛支持。
They don't make countryside any more, and every year concrete consumes more of it.
他们不再建造乡村了,而且每年混凝土都在吞噬更多的乡村地区。
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