摘要
英国人痴迷于谈论天气,这个问题数十年来一直让外界人士困惑不已。英国地理的特点造就了英国天气的现状:温和多变,众人皆知其难以预料。英国位于大西洋边缘,处于风暴路径的末端,即受到盛行风驱动,风暴在海洋上向下移动的相对狭窄的区域。
The weather that the British are obsessed with talking about has been puzzling outsiders for decades.Several features of Britain's geography make the weather the way it is:mild,changeable,and fam ously unpredictable.Britain’s position at the edge of the Atlantic places it at the end of a storm track_relatively narrow zones over oceans that storms travel down,driven by the prevailing winds.