【British音标】 英[ˈbrɪtɪʃ] 美[ˈbrɪtɪʃ]
【单词释义】 British是什么意思：
adj.英国的；不列颠的；英国人的；英国英语的
n.（总称）英国人；英国英语
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
【单词例句】
◇ In Sweden, one study found as few as one in 10 people practice the best brushing technique. The British health insurer Bupa found that almost half of respondents did not know how to brush their teeth properly in a survey of 2,000 people in the UK.
瑞典的一项研究发现，只有十分之一的人掌握了最佳的刷牙技巧。英国健康保险公司Bupa在一项涵盖了2000名英国人的调查中发现，近半数受访者不知道如何正确刷牙。
---- How to properly brush your teeth
◇ All based on British English, the English spoken in these countries can be well understood by native English speakers.
这些国家的英语都以英式英语为基础，能很好地为以英语为本族语的人所理解。
---- Different Countries Have Different Kinds of Englishes
◇ That's the main conclusion of an experiment on British workers that found listening to classical music at work can improve productivity by 15%.
一项针对英国员工的实验得出结论，在工作时听古典音乐可以让效率提高15%。
---- Listening to classical music at work boosts productivity
◇ In the UK, students go off to university (or uni) instead of college. The British version of college is typically a two-year program where students either focus on learning one particular skill set (much like a vocational school) or use the time to prepare for exams so that they can advance to university.
在英国，学生上大学用的词是university而非college。英国的college通常是两年制，学生专攻一项技能（和职业学校很相似）或为升入大学（university）的考试做准备。
---- What's the difference between a college and a university?
◇ By the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word autompne and the Latin autumnus, had overtaken fall as the standard British term for the third season.
到了17世纪末，源自法语autompne和拉丁语autumnus的autumn取代fall成为指代第三个季节的标准英国用词。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ The new study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, drew from data from more than 1 million male Swedish conscripts between 16 and 25, who were followed for an average of 33 years from 1968 to 2005.
这项发表在《英国运动医学》杂志上的新研究查看了超100万名16岁至25岁瑞典男性士兵的数据，从1968年到2005年这些人被跟踪调查平均长达33年。
---- Fitness earlier in life reduces cancer risk when older
◇ William Thackeray, a famous British writer, said, "Life is a mirror. When you smile in front of it , it will also smile and so will it when you cry to it."
英国著名作家威廉·萨克雷说过，“生活是一面镜子，你对它笑，它也会对你笑；你对他哭，它也会对你哭。”
---- Being Grateful