PUZZLES IN GEOGRAPHY
谜题在地理
People may wonder why different words are used to describe these four countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
人们也许想知道为什么不同的词汇被用来描述这四个国家:
英格兰、威尔士、
苏格兰和北爱尔兰。
You can clarify this question if you study British history.
你可以澄清这个问题如果你学习了英国历史。
First there was England.
首先是英格兰。
Wales was linked to it in the thirteenth century.
威尔士与它在十三世纪。
Now when people refer to England you find Wales included as well.
现在,当人们把英格兰威尔士也包含你找到。
Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to "Great Britain".
下一个英格兰和威尔士与苏格兰在十七世纪和名字改为“
大不列颠”。
Happily this was accomplished without conflict when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.
开心的是,这个是不冲突的情况下完成苏格兰国王詹姆斯成为英国国王和威尔士一样。
Finally the English government tried in the early twentieth century to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland connected in the same peaceful way.
最后,英国政府试图在二十世纪早期,组成了联合王国,通过让爱尔兰在同一个和平的方式连接。
However, the southern part of Ireland was unwilling and broke away to form its own government.
然而,爱尔兰南部不愿意和脱离形成自己的政府。
So only Northern Ireland joined with England, Wales and Scotland to become the United Kingdom and this was shown to the world in a new flag called the Union Jack.
所以只有北爱尔兰加入与英格兰、威尔士和苏格兰成为英国,这是向世界展示一个新的标志——联邦杰克。
To their credit the four countries do work together in some areas (eg, the currency and international relations), but they still have very different institutions.
为了他们的信用合作的四个国家在某些领域(如货币和国际关系),但他们仍有非常不同的机构。
For example, Northern Ireland, England and Scotland have different educational and legal systems as well as different football teams for competitions like the
World Cup!
例如,北爱尔兰,英格兰和苏格兰有不同的教育和法律系统以及不同的足球队在
世界杯的比赛如!
England is the largest of the four countries, and for convenience it is divided roughly into three zones.
英格兰是最大的四个国家,为了方便起见是大致分为3个区域。
The zone nearest France is called the South of England, the middle zone is called the Midlands and the one nearest to Scotland is known as the North.
欧元区最近的法国称为英格兰的南部,中间区域被称为中部和一个苏格兰最近被称为北。
You find most of the population settled in the south, but most of the industrial cities in the Midlands and the North of England.
你发现大部分人口定居在南方,但大部分的工业城市在中部和北部的英格兰。
Although, nationwide, these cities are not as large as those in China, they have world-famous football teams and some of them even have two!
虽然,全国范围内,这些城市的规模比不上那些在中国,他们有举世闻名的足球队,他们中的一些人甚至有两个!
It is a pity that the industrial cities built in the nineteenth century do not attract visitors.
可惜的是,工业城市始建于十九世纪不吸引游客。
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