新标准大学英语 - 视听说教程3原文及翻译(18)

Andy:这是一个关于杀死恶龙的英雄—圣乔治的神话。圣乔治是英格兰的国徽。 Janet:邪恶的龙？中国的龙可不邪恶，它们可是力量的象征。

Barman:我想现在我必须要去照看我的客人了，不介意的话，我将离开。 Janet:很高兴能跟您聊天，这真是是太棒了。

Joe:这对我来说还真是新鲜。提到神话与传说，让我们开始计划关于神秘伦敦的采访吧。

Outside View

The Royal Family are far from the typicl British family.They don‘t live in normal houses,they don‘t have normal cars-and they don‘t have normal jobs.Another thing is that they hardly ever use their surname.They generally refer to themselves by their royal title and their first name-Queen Elizabeth,Prince Charles,Princess Anne,or Prince William and Prince Henry,for example.

The additional letters HRH are used for princes and princesses and stand for his(or her)Royal Highness.The Queen herself is often referred to as simply Her Majesty.Historically,the mondachy didn‘t have surnames.They were referred to by the name the dynasty they led,such as the Tudors,the Stuarts or the House of Hanover of which dynasty Queen Victoria ,who died in 1901,was the last monarch.

This convention changed in 1917 when Queen Elizabeth the 2nd ?s grandfather ,Goerge the 5th,decided that he and his descendarts should bear the surname Windsor and the dynasty became known as the House of Windsor.The Royal Family had German connections-Queen Victoria‘s husband Prince Albert was German-born,and since Britain and Germany were at war,Goerge the 5th decided to adopt a british surname.Instead of the German sounding name ,Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,he chose the name Windsor after their popular family castle of that name which is situated to the west to London.Since then all royals have been given the official surname of Windsor,even though it is rarely used by them or anyone else.In 1960,Queen Elizabeth the 2nd modified this decision by adding the surname of her husband,Prince Philip,otherwise known as Lord Mountbatten,to the royal surname.All her children were to take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.

However,the British royals don‘t used this name very often either.The Queen‘s eldest son Charlse,as recorded in the marriage register at his wedding to Lady Diana Spenser,was his Royal