英语国家概况(上)术语terms.doc

Nuclear family In the USA, a family is usually made up of a father, a mother and two children.Immigrant An immigrant is a person who enters into a country of which one is not a native, in order to live in it permanently. Emigrant An emigrant is a person who leaves one’s own country and settles in another. Urban hermit “Urban hermits” refer to those ladies in urban cities of the United States of American who wander in the cities during day time, often with a bag, but at night they hide themselves sleep in corners in the street or in the subways. Ulsterman : refers to a person from Northern Ireland. Ireland was annexed by England in 1461. From Jacobean times Ireland became a centre of English settlement, and later Scottish settlement. It was divided into Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in 1921. Northern Ireland comprises six counties in which there has been civil unrest for many years. the United Kingdom : refers to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sovereign state : The UK is one sovereign state. It is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In each of the four lands the differences are obvious such as clothing and culture etc. A welfare state : The UK is a welfare state which was established after the Labor Party came to power in 1945. There are three main areas of welfare provision: health, housing and social security. Public School is a private secondary school in the UK, a wholly or partly boarding school, which is administered by a governing body and financed by the pupils fees and income from endowments. Middle School is a term often used in China, but it is misleading in for sense that for Americans middle school refers to the age range from ten to thirteen. Prep school is a private school in the educational system of Britain, It is the shortened term of preparatory school for entrance to a public school at the age of t