Britain's Mourning Rituals

Britons are surrounded by visible symbols of Queen Elizabeth’s death but relatively reserved in their grief.

Britons: 特指英国人 - A Briton is a native of the island of Great Britain
Britain: 英国
Grief: 悲伤/哀痛

Britain has entered a mourning of Queen Elizabeth II that incorporates a pomp that few people alive have seen, given the length of her reign.

pomp: 盛况
reign: 统治

The Times’s London bureau chief.

泰晤士报伦敦分社社长

bureau: 社
dramatic display of grief - 悲痛的戏剧性表现
demonstrative display of grief - 悲痛的实际表现

Something the Brits took for granted is no longer there.

Brits: 英国人

Britain has been through a fairly turbulent period

turbulent: 动荡的
turmoil: 动荡

Britain cast itself off from Europe cast off: 脱[欧]

I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the first private meetings between King Charles III and Liz Truss, the new prime minister.

fly on the wall: an unnoticed observer of a particular situation. (旁观者)

Now you’ve got a 73-year-old king and a 47-year-old rookie prime minister. He’s new as king but he has been in public life for decades. It’s almost like a role reversal from what we saw when Elizabeth became queen.

rookie: 菜鸟