If I were a man I should wish to hold no communication, not even an epistolary one, with an old fright of an Englishwoman

假如我是个男人，我是不愿跟一个丑八怪似的英国老太婆交往的，即使是书信来往也罢。

She speaks English well as if she were an Englishwoman .

她英语说得很好，简直像英国人一样.

As the English patient is tended by the nurse who falls in love with him, he dreams and recalls the time before the war in Egypt when he fell in love with a beautiful englishwoman

面对这位悉心照料并爱上了他的护士，他梦见并回想起战前在埃及的时光，那时他爱上了一位美丽的英国女人。

Usual Englishman or englishwoman can indicate the road for you on the street

通常英国人在街上是会给你指路的。

Englishwoman ;congresswoman;saleswoman.

英国女人;女议员;女推销员

||1: For all Miss Athill’s pleas of relative poverty, hers has been a privileged life. ||2: Raised in a grand country house, she lived for decades in Primrose Hill, a salubrious bit of London, in a house belonging to a cousin (a journalist at The Economist, it so happens), with weekends in the cousin’s Norfolk cottage and lots of trips to places like Venice and the Caribbean. ||3: When money seemed tight, cash always turned up from somewhere. ||4: Her voice on the page is that of an upper-middle-class Englishwoman —good things are “dear” or “darling”, bad things are “tiresome”, “horrid” or “vile”. ||5: But she also swears like a trooper and does not care what people think.

||1:尽管阿西尔一直声辩自己比较穷困，她的生活其实非常优越。||2:在豪华的郊区住宅长大的她，之后在伦敦环境宜人的樱草花山也住了有几十年。房子是她一个表兄妹的（经济学人的记者，很巧），周末则到她表兄妹的诺福克别墅去小住，没事就去像威尼斯、加勒比海这样的地方旅行。||3:手头紧的时候，钞票总是又会在哪冒出来。||4:字里行间透露的是那种中上层阶级英国女性的调调：好的事情则叫“宝贝”呀，“亲爱的”呀，糟糕的事情则说“讨人嫌”呀，“讨厌”呀，或者是“糟透了”。||5:但是她也会像巡警一样破口大骂，完全不在乎别人怎么想。