1·As there is no direct train from Queensway to Westminster, you may go this way.
因为从金钟道到威斯敏斯特没有直达列车,你可以走这条路。
2·The tower in Westminster is sinking into the banks of the Thames, partly as a result of decades of underground excavation.
位于威斯敏斯特区的钟楼正陷入泰晤士河的河岸里,部分是因为长期的地下挖掘施工造成的。
3·Stunned onlookers watched from Westminster Bridge as the magician recorded the stunt for his new TV show Dynamo: Magician Impossible.
Dynamo 是英国最具有天赋的魔术师之一,为了他的电视真人秀打气,这位魔术师在泰晤河上的特技魔术表演引来了好多人围观,图为游客以及市民站在威斯敏斯特大桥上观看他的表演。
4·Well, take Westminster, a London school (full disclosure: Bagehot was a pupil).
那么,拿伦敦一所学校---威斯敏斯特来说吧(全披露:白哲特当时还是个小学生)。
5·If you went to Westminster Abbey today and looked at the people buried there, how many are Londoners?
如果你今天去参观威斯敏斯特大教堂,你觉埋葬在那里的,有多少是伦敦人?
1·This unlikely axis has functioned surprisingly well-yielding a new culture of pragmatic compromise and, if anything, fewer tensions than the coalition partnership at Westminster.
这不大可能的轴却运转的出奇地好,屈从于一种实用主义妥协的新文化,比在议会里的联合关系要轻松。
2·The Parliamentary system is closely modeled on the Westminster system.
这种议会制度是模仿了英国议会制度。
3·At a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said Westminster "can no longer operate as a 19th-century institution where the members make up the rules, and operate them among themselves".
首相在唐宁街的新闻发布会上宣称,议会“不能再像个19世纪的机构那样运作,不能再让议员们拼凑出一些规则并自行实施”了。
4·Now here's a classic story about how the Westminster lobby works - and why you shouldn't always believe everything you read in the newspapers.
这里是一个关于英国议会会员如何做游说工作的经典故事,也告诉你为什么不能完全信报纸?
5·To be honest, I was perfectly happy being a weekend father and I would much rather be back at Westminster.
说实话,我更满足于做周末爸爸,更乐于回到议会大厦去工作。