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英国民族6 - 英语听力

英国民族6-英语听力.mp3
[00:03.418]Henry's great gift to the nation [00:04...
[00:03.418]Henry's great gift to the nation
[00:04.661]was more than just a fine new church.
[00:09.164]Across the way, its secular counterpart was
[00:11.662]the great hall of the Palace of Westminster.
[00:16.161]The palace was both the seat of government
[00:17.909]and a residence for Henry
[00:19.663]who, unlike his Angevin ancestors,
[00:21.162]didn't much like being in the saddle.
[00:27.409]And the hall was a court in both the senses the word suggests
[00:31.411]- a place of judgement and a theatre of ceremony.
[00:36.912]At Westminster,
[00:37.662]the King had to be seen to be magnificent,
[00:42.840]but the King had also to be seen to be just.
[00:49.779]Westminster may have been the creation of the monarchy,
[00:52.519]but it also belonged to England
[00:54.531]- a nation of laws,
[00:57.280]the nation of Magna Carta.
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