英国艾德礼执政时期是一个遭遇二战破坏、帝国不能维持的特殊时代,学者一般用“帝国斜阳”、帝国的衰落等词语来描述这一现状。导致英国窘境的原因颇多,本文认为可以归纳成二战给英国造成的巨大损失、战后凋敝的英国经济、英国对美国依赖程度的加深三方面,加以总结性阐述。 At the time of the British Adelaide administration was a special era that suffered from the destruction of World War II and the inability of the empire to sustain. Scholars generally used the words “the imperial sun” and the decline of the empire to describe this situation. There are many reasons that lead to the dilemma of the United Kingdom. This paper argues that it can be summed up into the huge losses caused by Great Britain to World War II, the sluggish British economy after the war, and the deepening dependence of the United Kingdom on the United States.