She speaks english well as if she were an englishwoman .
她英语说得很好,简直像英国人一样。
Usual englishman or englishwoman can indicate the road for you on the street .
通常英国人在街上是会给你指路的。
But I am an englishwoman born in 1959 , brought up to think that self-promotion boils down to boasting and there are at least four things wrong with that .
Fifty years ago , a slender young englishwoman was walking through a rainforest reserve at gombe , in tanzania , when she came across a dark figure hunched over a termite nest .
" You might , from your appearance , be the wife of lucifer , " said miss pross , in her breathing . " Nevertheless , you shall not get the better of me . I am an englishwoman . "