堅持?jǐn)z入原汁原味的英文的話，總是會聽到、讀到非常地道的英文表達(dá)方式，然而提筆忘字，到了自己要用的時候，又回到那套中文直譯英文的習(xí)慣。記錄這個系列，就是要聚沙成塔，改良自己的表達(dá)習(xí)慣。詞都不難，關(guān)鍵怎么用，用在哪兒。

今天主要的材料來自University of London在Coursera上的課程Magna Carta 1215-2015。

It was predominantly rural population.

絕對性地、壓倒性地，不一定要用most系列

Talking about Cathedrals reminds us of the centrality of religion to Medieval life. And that's something that obviously stretched across Europe rather than having a national boundary.

centrality是個很簡單的詞，但是表述“中心地位”時你是否會想到用它呢？而當(dāng)表述一件事情不止于一國時，你會想到用national boundary來表述么？

On the strength of the profits of the wool trade……

憑借，依賴，你會這么使用strength嗎？

Then a few more days of fine tuning and finally on the 15th of June the final terms were agreed.

微調(diào)，和中文一樣，也可以用于文字、條款的微調(diào)。

King John had a bad write-up in history and he deserved it.

這個合成詞可以理解為評論、報道，這里說的是約翰國王在歷史上名聲不好

So we can say Magna Carta, in its original form that we are marking the anniversary of, had a shelf life of just three months.

談?wù)撃臣挛锏拇婊顣r間，可以用『保質(zhì)期』來描述

That was partly because of the master stroke of Guala and the Marshal.

master stroke指『高招』，腦補(bǔ)一下吧，等同于：高，實(shí)在是高！

They saw it(Magna Carta) as a touchstone of good government.

試金石咋說？記住后面的介詞是of不是for哦