Canute

基本解釋

Is he Noah or are we King Canute?
他是諾亞，還是我們是卡努王？
Then Canute took off his crown，and threw it down upon thesand.
這時(shí)克努特摘下他的王冠，扔在沙灘上。
When Ethebred's death left no strong Saxon successor, the Witan chose Canute the Danish leader, as king in.
埃塞爾雷德死后沒有留下有實(shí)力的撒克遜繼承人,于是賢人會(huì)議選擇了丹麥?zhǔn)最I(lǐng)克努特為國(guó)王。
Like King Canute, foreign governments occasional-ly try to stop the rising tide of American cultural in-fluence, and like the hapless king they always fail.
就像克努特國(guó)王一樣，有時(shí)外國(guó)政府想阻止越來越猛烈的美國(guó)文化的影響，而且正像那個(gè)倒霉的國(guó)王一樣，他們總是失敗。
When Ethebred's death left no strong Saxon successor, the Witan chose Canute the Danish leader, as king in 1016.
埃塞爾雷德死后沒有留下有實(shí)力的撒克遜繼承人，于是賢人會(huì)議選擇了丹麥?zhǔn)最I(lǐng)克努特為國(guó)王。