Winston Churchill
“最伟大的英国人”——温斯顿·丘吉尔

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British politician and Nobel laureate who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. Churchill is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its inception in 1901, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
温斯顿·丘吉尔(1874—1965)，英国政治家，诺贝尔奖获得者，于1940年至1945年以及1951年至1955年任英国首相。丘吉尔被认为是20世纪最伟大的战时领导人之一，同时他也是英国军队的军官、历史学家、作家以及画家。丘吉尔是自1901年诺贝尔文学奖设立之后唯一获此殊荣的英国首相，也是第一个获得美国荣誉市民称号的人。

Churchill was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.
丘吉尔生在马尔巴罗公爵的贵族家庭。他的父亲，伦道夫·丘吉尔勋爵，是一位魅力超凡的政治家，担任过英国财政大臣；他的母亲，珍妮·杰罗姆，是美国社会名媛。作为一位年轻军官，丘吉尔参加了在英属印度、苏丹的战斗以及第二次布尔战争。作为一名出色的战地记者，他写了一本关于参战经历的书。

Upon his death, Elizabeth II granted him the honor of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history, consistently ranking well in opinion polls of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom.
丘吉尔死后，伊丽莎白二世授予他国葬殊荣，该葬礼也是历史上最盛大的政治家集会之一。在2002年“有史以来最伟大的英国人”的调查中，丘吉尔被认为是英国历史上最具有影响力的人，并始终在对英国首相的民意测验中名列前茅。