点评:i’ve been enjoying walks in the Chilterns for many years - it’s an area of gentle beauty, surprisingly close to London. I have taken friends there, some from overseas, and they have been charmed.
Sadly though I will not take visitors there any longer. The area is now tainted with provocative political symbols ie the St George’s Cross, not on an individual house by house basis but on a such a large scale that suggests that it is official. The visitor to whom I wished to show off the area was horrified to be driven through mile after mile of what they said reminded them of a 1930s Nurenberg rally.
Even though it seems that these flags on lampposts have been erected illegally, after 4 months it looks like the local communities are in no hurry to remove symbols which are so unwelcoming
翻译:多年来,我一直很喜欢在奇尔特恩丘陵散步——那里风景优美,而且离伦敦出乎意料地近。我带过朋友去那里,其中一些朋友来自海外,他们都被那里的美景深深吸引。
然而,令人遗憾的是,我以后不会再带朋友去那里了。这片区域现在充斥着一些具有挑衅性的政治标志,比如圣乔治十字旗。这些标志并非零星出现在每家每户,而是大规模地出现,让人感觉像是官方的。我原本想带一位朋友去那里看看,结果他被驱车带过一英里又一英里的路程,沿途的景象让他感到震惊,仿佛回到了上世纪30年代的纽伦堡集会。
尽管这些挂在路灯杆上的旗帜似乎是非法竖立的,但四个月过去了,当地社区似乎并没有急于移除这些令人反感的标志。