外刊阅读：英国的街道名满是脏话？(4)

[Paragraph 8] But mostly what marks Britain’s streets is stasis: many of London’s street names date back to 1600. This doesn’t mean that nothing has changed. By the 1980s, 40% of London’s streets were being named after women—all of them, not merely a body part. But changes tend to happen by accretion, not revolution: layer upon linguistic layer is added, each layer almost imperceptibly burying the last; an undisturbed archaeology of ideals. And next year in Cambridge, a new layer will be put down.
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原文出自：2022年11月26日《TE》Britain版块。
精读笔记来源于：自由英语之路
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【补充资料】（来自于网络）
英国的街道名称。在中世纪的英格兰，道路名称是随着时间逐渐出现的，有时取名自附近的树木或河流、道路尽头的农场或是转角处的旅馆。街道名称也可能源自路上发生的事，“狎亵巷”便是个例子。又或许以职业命名，例如肉铺、铁匠铺、市场；有些街道名称来自它通往何处，例如通往伦敦的“伦敦路”，“教堂街”、“磨坊巷”、“车站路”等。
【重点句子】（3 个）
Their job is to introduce “official ideology into aspects of everyday life.”
路标的作用就是将“官方意识形态”引入日常生活的方方面面。
Walk through Europe and you walk through streets whose names have been overwritten so often they are part place, part palimpsest.