2026.9.16
背本篇文章的单词。
翻译全文，熟练运用分析长难句的技巧，并写下自己在翻译过程中的理解，附带对做题、文章的分析。
重新做题。
对答案。
对照参考答案修改翻译，修正理解。找出自己的卡点。分析自己之前做错的答案的思路是怎样的，为什么会这样想。
再次听视频解析，学习做题技巧。
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King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted“king don't abdicate,they die in their sleep.”
西班牙的国王Juan Carlos曾经坚持说“国王永不退位（放弃职责），他们（一直任职直到）在睡梦中去世。”
「我的想法:
我看到insist这个词，坚持说…，而且还是once insisted，曾经坚持说…，那应该是后面有反转，要打脸。
再看到后面…don't …die…我直觉就是，这个人说话很绝对。」
But embassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.
但是令人尴尬的丑闻以及在Euro-选举中共和党左派的受欢迎迫使他收回前言并从职位上退下来。
「我的想法:
一上来就给个长难句来吓唬我。
首先But表转折，表示这一句与上一句的逻辑关系发生变化。有反转。说明这个国王确实是被打脸了。
长难句抓主干，谓语动词是have forced。
谁force？就是前面的一大串A and B。
force他干什么？to引导的两个目的状语，并用and连接，to eat his words,to stand down.」
So,does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days?Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals,with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyles？
所以，西班牙评论是否表明君主制看到它的衰落了？对于有着壮丽华服和庄重生活方式的欧洲皇室来说是否意味着厄运降临的前兆？
「作者用so引导出两个问句，引发读者思考。但是作者这样问，是否表明他的态度其实是持否定意见呢？也就是他其实并不赞同问句里的内容，于是提出质疑，然后接下来的内容就去论证。」
The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy.When public opinion is particularly polarised,as it was following the end of the Franco regime,monarchs can rise above “mere” politics and “enbody” a spirit of national unity.
西班牙的例子，既是为支持也是为反对君主制，提供了论据。当公众的观点特别两极分化的时候，就像是步入法国统治时期的后尘，君主们能够跻身在“仅仅的”政策和“体现”一个国家的统一之意志之上。
「我的想法：
这一段我是翻译地有点绕了，特别是最后一句。」
It is this apparnt transcendence of politics that explains monarchs' continuing popularity as head of state.
And so, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world,with 10 kingdoms（not counting Vatican City and Andorra）.
But unlike their absolutist counterpart in the Gulf and Asia,most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for non- controversial but respected public figure.
Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside.
Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history —and sometimes tje way they behave todsy—embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities.
At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbol heart of moden democratic states.
The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratics ways.Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses（or helicopers）.
Even so, these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%, and media intrusiveness makes it incresingly difficult to maintain the right image.
While Europe's monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.
It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy's reputation with her rather ordinary (if well-heeled) granny style.
The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchical view of the world.
He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service——as non-controversial and non-political heads of state.
Charles ought to know that as English history shows, it is kings, not republican, who are the monarchy's worst enermies.
