大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 john bull


释义：

john bull 约翰牛（特指英国或者英国人）；典型的英国人

例句：



They would say we must give this up to John Bull .

他们会说，我们必须把这土地让给约翰布林。



He was a fully developed John Bull of the outrageous type — with a huge beak of a nose, cunning eyes, and a yard-long chin.

他已经完全进化成为约翰牛那种野蛮无理的类型——巨大的鹰钩鼻，狡猾的眼睛，和长下巴。



A century earlier, the symbol of the archetypal Englishman was John Bull, a character portrayed as irascible, strong-minded, querulous, and not particularly neighborly.

一个世纪前，英国男人的典型代表就是约翰·布尔。他被描写为一个易怒的、有主见的、爱发牢骚的、不是特别友好的人。


It depicts Liberal statesman David Lloyd George trying to defraud John Bull with a Socialist horse, painted to look like a Liberal budget, with the caption 'The fraud exposed!'


John Bull complains 'Look here, this dark horse you are trying to palm off on me is coming out in his true colours as soon as I begin to rub him down!'