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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Famous Brits Under the Microscope. 欢迎大家回来【英伦名人八卦堂】.
1. 迄今为止，嘴最"毒"的英国首相非他莫属！
2.早餐就开始喝烈酒，这样的***你放心吗？
3. 国际政坛出名的老烟枪，胖酒鬼和大毒舌，却被BBC评为历史上最具影响力的人。
4. 考试不及格，心仪专业落选，却不妨碍他拿诺贝尔文学奖。
5. 日不落的余晖，战火中的绅士？这位首相收到的争议比你褒奖多一百倍！好奇么，来听节目就知道说是是谁啦！
Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Famous Brits Under the Microscope. 欢迎大家回来【英伦名人八卦堂】.
Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone.
It’s been a while since we did this particular segment.
Yeah, it's been quite some time, hasn't it?
And who are we gonna talk about today?
Well since it's Famous Brits Under the Microscope, I thought that today we could talk about the greatest ever British person as voted by the public and the BBC.
The greatest? it's a man, and it's not fictional?
He is not fictional, no.
I have a few names in my head. I'm not sure.
Well, he was also known as the British bulldog.
Are we gonna talk about Winston Churchill? 丘吉尔 the British bulldog. Is it just because of how he looked?
Well, partly is. I think it's also temperament, but there were also quite a few propaganda posters during the war that showed him as a bulldog. And I think he does actually look a little bit like a bulldog.
Churchill was a very complex sort of character, wasn’t he?
It's not really a simple black and white like he's a good or bad person.
No. Churchill, I would say very much was a man of his time, so he had views which nowadays we would not agree with, and some of these habits like his drinking and smoking, it's hard to really support nowadays.
Yeah. He is hardly the poster child or poster boy for healthy living or political correctness now. Exactly. But that doesn't mean that he was not a fascinating character to talk about.
Exactly, to be great doesn't necessarily mean you have to be a perfect person.
Exactly. So, let's get started. Let's start with his family background.
Yeah. Winston Churchill was born in 1874 and he was born to a rich aristocratic family. And not a lot of people know this, but despite the fact that he's known as very much a British person and very patriotic British person, he was actually half American. What? Churchill? Yeah, his mother was an American.
All right, because you sort of pictured Churchill as the quintessential British person.
Oh yeah, but he was half American. Later in his life, he actually became an honorary American citizen.
就是荣誉美国公民. Yeah. I see. And I've heard that he wasn't really doing that well in school. He was not a very good student.
No, he was actually quite bad student.