So we Britons have little or no real influence in world affairs-and Queen Anne is dead, too. The distinguished lecturer hardly needed to labor a point which we have stopped bothering to remind each other of.

• 我们英国人在世界事务中很少或几乎没有什么真正影响－而且这已非新闻。那知名的演讲者根本无需在这一点上大费唇舌，我们早就不屑于互相提醒这一点了。