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不列颠 Bù liè diān Britain / British / Great Britain
英国电信 yīng guó diàn xìn British
英国国家太空中心 yīng guó guó jiā tài kōng zhōng xīn British
小贝 Xiǎo bèi "Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆[Bei4 ke4 han4 mu3])
滚石 Gǔn shí Rock Records, Taiwanese record label / the Rolling Stones, British rock band / Rolling Stone (magazine)
英国人 Yīng guó rén British person / British people
英军 Yīng jūn British army
泰坦尼克号 Tài tǎn ní kè Hào RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912
达尔文 Dá ěr wén Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist and author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源[Wu3 zhong3 Qi3 yuan2] / Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia) 北領地|北领地[Bei3 Ling3 di4]
布鲁克 Bù lǔ kè Brook (name) / Peter Brook (1925), British theater director
罗素 Luó sù Russell (name) / Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British logician, rationalist philosopher and pacifist
凯恩斯 Kǎi ēn sī Keynes (name) / John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), influential British economist / Cairns, city in Queensland, Australia
李斯特 Lǐ sī tè Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer / Joseph Lister (1883-1897), British surgeon and bacteriologist
英联邦 Yīng Lián bāng British Commonwealth of Nations
撒切尔 Sā qiē ěr Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
法拉第 Fǎ lā dì Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
托尔金 Tuō ěr jīn J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), British philologist and author of fantasy fiction such as Lord of the Rings 魔戒
李约瑟 Lǐ Yuē sè Joseph Needham (1900-1995), British biochemist and author of Science and Civilization in China
布兰森 Bù lán sēn Branson or Brandsen (name) / Sir Richard Branson (1950-), British millionaire and founder of Virgin
道尔顿 Dào ěr dùn Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
赫胥黎 Hè xū lí Huxley (name) / Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British evolutionary scientist and champion of Darwin / Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist
彭定康 Péng Dìng kāng Chris Patten (1944-), last British Governor of Hong Kong 1992-1997
肖伯纳 Xiāo Bó nà Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
蒙巴顿 Méng bā dùn Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.
库克 Kù kè Cook (name) / Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer
纳尔逊 Nà ěr xùn Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero
贝克汉姆 Bèi kè hàn mǔ Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
蒙哥马利 Méng gē mǎ lì Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal / Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname)
波义耳 Bō yì ěr Boyle (name) / Robert Boyle (1627-91), British and Irish scientist and pioneer chemist
韦利 Wéi lì Waley or Whaley (name) / Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist
开尔文 Kāi ěr wén Lord Kelvin 1824-1907, British physicist (William Thomson) / Kelvin (temperature scale)
埃尔金 Aī ěr jīn James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 / in 1860 / Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810
韩德尔 Hán dé ěr (Tw) Handel (name) / George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born British composer
奥威尔 Aò wēi ěr Orwell (name) / George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 / and 1984 一九八四年
尼尔逊 Ní ěr xùn Nelson or Nillson (name) / Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British naval hero
马恩岛 Mǎ ēn Dǎo Isle of Man, British Isles / Isle of Mann
黄金海岸 huáng jīn hǎi àn name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)
不列颠诸岛 Bù liè diān Zhū dǎo British Isles
葛兰素史克 Gě lán sù shǐ kè GlaxoSmithKline, British pharmaceutical company
煐 yīng (used in names) / British thermal unit (BTU)
英国电讯公司 Yīng guó Diàn xùn Gōng sī British telecom / BT
英国广播电台 Yīng guó Guǎng bō Diàn tái British Broadcasting Corporation / BBC
英国广播公司 Yīng guó Guǎng bō Gōng sī British Broadcasting Corporation / BBC
庇古 Bì gǔ Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), British economist
陈美 Chén Měi Vanessa-Mae (1978-), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier
大英帝国 Dà yīng Dì guó British Empire
卫奕信 Wèi yì xìn David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (1935-), British diplomat and China expert, Governor of Hong Kong 1986-1992
英国石油公司 Yīng guó shí yóu gōng sī British Petroleum, BP
英属维尔京群岛 Yīng shǔ Wéi ěr jīng Qún dǎo British Virgin Islands
圆明园 Yuán míng yuán Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860
不列颠哥伦比亚 Bù liè diān Gē lún bǐ yà British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
不列颠哥伦比亚省 Bù liè diān Gē lún bǐ yà shěng British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
亨德尔 Hēng dé ěr Handel (name) / George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German-born British composer
伯纳斯·李  Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and creator of the internet
史景迁 Shǐ Jǐng qiān Jonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The Search for Modern China 追尋現代中國|追寻现代中国[Zhui1 xun2 Xian4 dai4 Zhong1 guo2]
土邦 tǔ bāng native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
大英博物馆 Dà Yīng bó wù guǎn British Museum
大卫·艾登堡  David Attenborough (1926-), British naturalist and broadcaster, author of Life on Earth 地球上的生物[di4 qiu2 shang4 de5 sheng1 wu4]
威妥玛 Wēi Tuǒ mǎ Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist, originator of the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system
尤德 Yóu dé Sir Edward Youde (1924-1986), British diplomat, ambassador to Beijing 1974-1978, governor of Hong Kong 1982-1986
希格斯 Xī gé sī Higgs (name) / Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson to explain the mass of elementary particles
库克船长 Kù kè chuán zhǎng Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer
爱玛·沃特森  Emma Watson (1990-), British actress
拉萨条约 Lā sà Tiáo yuē Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
挽救儿童 wǎn jiù ér tóng to rescue a child / Save the Children, a British charity
撒切尔夫人 Sā qiē ěr Fū ren Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
斯坦因 Sī tǎn yīn Stein (name) / Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), British adventurer and archaeologist who explorer Xinjiang in early 20th century
曼岛 Màn Dǎo Isle of Man, British Isles (Tw) / see also 馬恩島|马恩岛[Ma3 en1 Dao3]
本那比市 Běn nà bǐ shì Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
柏克莱 Bǎi kè lái Berkeley (name) / George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, famous British philosopher / Berkeley, university city in the San Francisco bay area, California
波茨坦会议 Bō cí tǎn huì yì Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee
港英政府 Gǎng Yīng zhèng fǔ British colonial administration of Hong Kong 1837-1941 and 1945-1997
狄拉克 Dí lā kè P.A.M. Dirac (1902-1984), British physicist
琅威理 Láng Wēi lǐ Captain William M Lang (1843-), British adviser to the Qing north China navy 北洋水師|北洋水师 / during the 1880s
翟理斯 Zhái lǐ sī Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system
艾登堡 Aì dēng bǎo Attenborough (name) / David Attenborough (1926-), British naturalist and broadcaster, author of Life on Earth 地球上的生物[di4 qiu2 shang4 de5 sheng1 wu4]
英国文化协会 Yīng guó Wén huà Xié huì British Council
英国石油 Yīng guó shí yóu British Petroleum, BP
英属哥伦比亚 Yīng shǔ Gē lún bǐ yà British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
迪斯雷利 Dí sī léi lì Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880
阿普尔顿 A1 pǔ ěr dùn Appleton (name) / Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere
阿道司·赫胥黎  Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist and author of Brave new world 美麗新世界|美丽新世界
额尔金 E2 ěr jīn James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 / in 1860 / Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810
额菲尔士 E2 fēi ěr shì Everest (name) / Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843 / transliteration refers to Mt Everest 珠穆朗瑪峰|珠穆朗玛峰, Mt Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan) / Nepalese: Sagarmatha
马克沁 Mǎ kè qìn Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun
马噶尔尼 Mǎ gá ěr ní Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
马戛尔尼 Mǎ jiá ěr ní Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793 / Paul McCartney, former Beatle
华盛顿海军条约  International Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament / Treaty Between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan / Washington Naval Treaty
英两 Yīng liǎng British imperial ounce (old)
英属印度洋领土  British Indian Ocean Territory
英国天文学会  British Astronomical Association
英国国家空间研究委员会  British National Committee on Space Research
英国海洋学数据中心  British Oceanographic Data Centre
英热单位  British thermal unit
英国高级专员署 yīng guó gāo jí zhuān yuán shǔ British High Commission
限制海军军备国际条约  International Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament / Treaty Between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan / Washington Naval Treaty
英国部队指挥官  commander of British forces
英国委任统治  British Mandate for Palestine / British Mandate
英美安全信息理事会  British American Security Information Council
英国海外发展非政府组织网  British Overseas NGOs for Development
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