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Through busy streets, past some of the landmarks of her time in office, Baroness Thatcher was returned to Parliament yesterday, scene of some of her greatest triumphs. 通过繁忙的街道，路经几处她任期内的标志性建筑，撒切尔夫人昨日被运抵议会，这里是她获得最伟大成就的地方之一。 After so long out of the public eye, the former prime minister was allowed to take centre stage again on this, the first leg of her final journey. 长时间淡出公共视线之后，英国前首相得到许可重新回到这里，作为她最终行程的起点。 There were no military bands, no massed crowds lining the streets, and none of the pomp and ceremony that will accompany her funeral today. 今天的葬礼不会有军队护送，街道两边没有拥挤的人群，也不会有盛大典礼。 But the 30 minutes it took to transport her coffin across London was a prelude to Lady Thatcher’s last stand – her return to the Palace of Westminster, the battleground where she made her name. 但是这段用时30分钟穿过伦敦街道运送棺柩的过程仅是撒切尔夫人葬礼的序曲，她将回到她成名的战场威斯敏斯特宫。 It began with her coffin being placed into a standard hearse at a funeral directors’ headquarters in North London and draped in a Union Jack. 棺柩放置在伦敦北部葬礼承办总部的标准灵车中，上面披着英国国旗。 | 
