Queen`s Jubilee

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Queen’s Jubilee
(NBC Evening News, 2012)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/47491156#47491156
Finally tonight, a pageant fit for a queen. The scene was Windsor Castle outside London today as the
British military honoured Queen Elizabeth, one of the events marking her sixty-year reign that culminates
two weeks from now with a nationwide celebration. NBC’s Duncan Golustani was there.
They came by the thousands from the Army, Air Force and Navy, on the grounds of Windsor Castle a
tribute to their commander-in-chief. The Queen’s role might be ceremonial, but her support is real.
We are very proud of the selfless service and sacrifices made by servicemen and women and their
families in recent years.
The Queen’s length of service is now longer than the lives of those who serve her. To the new recruits,
she’s an inspiration.
Filled with proudness, all is on parade, just stood there, chest out, head held high, loved it!
That enthusiasm is widely shared. The Royals are now more popular than anyone can remember, public
approval at eighty percent. But respect matters more to the Queen and among the military, it has never
wavered.
The Queen and her family’s relationship with the armed forces goes beyond pomp and pageantry, it’s also
personal.
In World War Two, a young Princess Elizabeth joined the women’s auxiliary as a driver and mechanic.
Her husband was a naval officer and she would go on to worry like only a mother can when Prince
Andrew flew helicopters in the Falklands war.
Now, it’s the turn of her grandsons, Prince Harry’s likely to return to Afghanistan at the controls of an
Apache helicopter while Prince William works as a rescue pilot.
Hip hip hurray! Well, I think she’s lovely. Yah, great woman, great family, and I’m glad that that’s what
we’ve got as our head of state.
Today’s spectacular parade and fly-by are only part of the build-up to the jubilee weekend celebrating her
sixty years on the throne, a role she seems to be enjoying now more than ever.
Duncan Golustani, NBC News, Windsor, England.
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a pageant fit for a queen
nationwide
a tribute
selfless service
servicemen
« proudness » (déformation de « pride »)
on parade
chest out
9. head held high
10. widely shared
11. matters more
12. to waver
un spectacle digne d’une reine
nationale, à l’échelle nationale
hommage
service avec abnégation
militaires
fierté
en défilé
littéralement « poitrine à l’extérieur » =
les épaules en arrière
tête haute
largement partagé
a plus d’importance
flancher
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13. beyond pomp and pageantry
14. go on to worry
15. is likely to return
16. hip hip hurray!
17. I’m glad that that’s what we’ve got
18. as head of state
19. a fly-by
20. the build-up
au delà du faste et spectacle
continuer à se faire du souci
va probablement retourner
(exclamation) hip hip hip hourra!
je suis content que c’est cela que nous avons
comme chef d’état
survol d’avions
crescendo d’activité