英国女王私聊曝光抱怨中国官员 '粗鲁'

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BBC Chinese, May 11, 2016.
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp ... privateconversation

My comment: If you read it, you may end up not knowing what the report is saying, at all. You've got to read the English-language reports.
(a) Queen Filmed Calling Chinese Officials 'Very Rude.'  BBC, May 11, 2016.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-36263685
(i) "The Queen's remarks were filmed as she was introduced to Metropolitan Police Commander Lucy D'Orsi"

Metropolitan Police Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Service
(section 5 Ranks: commander)

Quote:

"The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, commonly known simply as the Commissioner, is the overall operational leader of the force, responsible and accountable to the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime. * * * The post is currently occupied by Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe

"The Met is also referred to by the metonym Scotland Yard after the location of its original headquarters in a road called Great Scotland Yard in Whitehall [a road in City of Wetminster]. The Met's current headquarters is New Scotland Yard, in Victoria [a district in City of Wetminster].

* There is Greater London Authority (headed by Mayor of London, popularly elected with a four-year term and whose incumbent is newly elected Sadiq Khan of ​Labor Party). Metropolitan Police Service is part of it.
* And there is "square mile" of City of London, whose Lord Mayor is elected for a one-year term, by liverymen. See Lord Mayor of London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London
(section 3 Election)
(ii)
(A) Lucy D'Orsi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_D%27Orsi
(born Lucy Copson in 1969; married Raffaele D'Orsi in Leicester in 1993)
(B) The Italian surname D'Orsi is a variant of D'Orso/ The latter is an Italian surname, meaning child of Orso (a personal, or given, name). Consult Italian English dictionary:
orso (noun masculine; from Latin [noun masculine] ursus [a bear]): "a bear"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orso
(iii) "Commander D'Orsi told the Queen: 'I was the Gold Commander so I'm not sure whether you knew, but it was quite a testing time for...It was at the point they walked out of Lancaster House and told me that the trip was off' "
(A) gold–silver–bronze command structure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold–silver–bronze_command_structure
(The structure was created by the UK Metropolitan Police Service in 1985)
(B) Lancaster House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_House
(iv) "She [Lucy D'Orsi] said the Queen and her [D'Orsi's, not Queen's; The Queen Mother (1900-2002; 102 years old)] own mother had chatted about the benefits of being grandmothers.
(v) No need to read "Analysis" -- an article attached below.

(b) The Queen's China Comments: Unanswered Questions. BBC, May 11, 2016.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36265224

"Kerry Brown [male], Professor of Chinese Studies at King's College London [said] 'In terms of the atmospherics between diplomats in China and the UK, it's not an easy relationship and that comes through in the freight of emotion that was in her comments.' "

atmospherics (n; always plural): "actions (as official statements) intended to create or suggest a particular atmosphere or mood in politics and especially international relations; also : the mood so created or suggested"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atmospherics