It has been said that one of the reasons why English colonized so much of the world was that whatever the weather conditions he met abroad, he had already experienced something like them at home.

据说英国之所以能在世界各地建立殖民地，原因之一就是无论国外天气如何，在国内他们早已是沐雨经霜了(在国内他们对风吹雨打早已习以为常了)。