In the United States, many people use the English system for measuring.

在美国，许多人使用英制单位。

Few of us feel we are experts at the small marks that make up the English punctuation system.

小标点符号构成了英语标点系统，我们却几乎没人觉得自己是这方面的专家。

While some people use the metric system, our idioms and expressions often stick with measurement words from the English system.

虽然有些人使用公制单位，但我们的习语和短语往往坚持使用英制单位中的测量词。

When Kipps inherits a fortune from a long-lost grandfather, he has to negotiate the complex rules of the English class system.

当基普斯从一位失散已久的祖父那里继承了一笔财富时，他不得不与英国阶级制度的复杂规则进行谈判。

What defect do we find with this English system?

6. 我们发现这个英语系统有什么缺陷？

At the time, the English prison system was abysmally bad.

当时，英国的监狱系统非常糟糕。

Virginia was the stronghold of the English system of church and state.

——弗吉尼亚是英国教会和国家体系的堡垒。

But he turned against the values and spirit of the English public school system.

但他反对英国公立学校系统的价值观和精神。

So I really wanted to study what is going on in the English sound system, which I have to say is so different from Vietnamese.

所以我真的很想研究英语的发音系统，我不得不说英语和越南语太不一样了。

His criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.

功利主义原则主导了英国教育体系并且摧毁了年轻人的心灵。

The fastidious traveler, Mrs. Trollope, who thought the English system of church and state was ideal, saw in the United States only roughness and ignorance.

挑剔的旅行者， 夫人。特罗洛普认为英国的教会和国家制度是理想的， 他在美国看到的只是粗鲁和无知。

A " pint" (pint), you might know, is a unit of measurement in the English system; it's equal to a half a quart, or 16 ounces.

“品脱” （pint）， 你可能知道， 是英制中的计量单位；它等于半夸脱， 或 16 盎司。

So when the education system was changed in line with the English colonial system it became illegal to speak Irish in the classroom and it became illegal to speak Irish in many places.

而为了配合英国的殖民系统，教育体制进行了更改，这样一来在课堂上还有爱尔兰的许多地方说爱尔兰语都是违法的。

Strife, a powerful account of the evil and the futility of a strike, and Justice, an indictment of the English legal system, are two of his finest plays.

《冲突》有力地描述了罢工的邪恶和徒劳无益，《正义》则是对英国法律制度的控诉，是他最好的两部戏剧。

When accounts of Boris and Carrie Johnson's refurbishment of their Downing Street flat quoted a visitor scoffing at the previous incumbents' " John Lewis nightmare" , it located the stores within the subtle gradations and snobberies of the English class system.

当鲍里斯和卡莉·约翰逊对他们的唐宁街公寓进行整修的报道中，引用了一位访客对前任经营者的 “约翰·刘易斯的噩梦” 的嘲笑，它将这些商店置于英国阶级制度的微妙渐变和势利中。