英国曾经是世界上工业发达的头号资本主义大国，自称“日不落帝国”。过去人们在谈论国际事物的时候，总是习惯说“英美如何如何”——把英国排在了美国的前面。如今，“大英帝国”已经衰落，可仍然是发达世界的重要成员，人们在谈论西方的时候不过是把口头语改成了“美英如何 Britain used to be the number one capitalist power in the industrialized world and claimed to be “never empire.” When people used to talk about international things, they always used to saying “how Britain and the United States behaved” - putting Britain ahead of the United States. Now that the British Empire has declined, it can still be an important member of the developed world. When it comes to talking about the West, people just change the spoken language into "how the United States and Britain