The old imperial map is influencing this: Pankaj Ghemawat, author of a recent book on globalisation, thinks that the Spanish, Portuguese and British empires will re-emerge through these new economic ties.

昔日帝国图鉴正在影响一趋势：近期一部有关全球化书籍的作者潘卡基？格玛沃特（Pankaj Ghemawat）认为西班牙，葡萄牙以及英国将通过的纽带重崛起。

And Fahrenheit became a standard system for the British Empire across the globe.

华氏便成为了横跨全球的大英帝国所使用的标准单位。

In 1953, she reigned over a dwindling British Empire.

1953年，她统治了一个日益缩小的大英帝国。

Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward towards his goal.

因为没有胜利就不能生存。 我们务必认识到，没有胜利就不复有大英帝国，没有胜利就不复有大英帝国所象征的一切，没有胜利就不复有多少世纪以来的强烈要求和冲动：人类应当向自己的目标迈进。

The United States was once a part of the British Empire.

美国曾一度是大英帝国的一部分。

In fact, what was primarily the old British empire.

事实上，主要是旧大英帝国。

The pilots from all over the British Empire were joined by airmen who have managed to flee their country on the German occupation, or his government is in exile in London.

来自大英帝国各地的飞行员和其他一国家的飞行员合作。飞行员有的是因为德军占领祖国而逃离，有的是因为其政府流亡伦敦。

After World War One, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the British and French Empires carved up the Middle East, with the British taking control of a region it called the British Mandate for Palestine.

第一次世界大战后，奥斯曼帝国崩溃，英法帝国瓜分了中东，英国控制了一个被称为“英国对巴勒斯坦委任统治”的地区。

He learned nothing about the British Empire at school, he writes.

他在书中写道，自己在上时对大英帝国一无所知。

Since then, ownership was passed between the Portuguese and Dutch and British empires for centuries.

从那时起，它相继被葡萄牙、荷兰、大英帝国统治，长达几世纪。

Now, imagine that death means you are now at the helm of the British Empire.

现在，想象一下，他的去世意味着你要成为大英帝国的掌权者。

However, English is spoken as a native or second language in a large number of other countries which were once colonies of the British Empire.

然而，英语在其它许多曾是大英帝国殖民地的国家中也被当作本国语或第二语言使用。

A knotty problem is resolved. Merit badges all round WHEN Robert Baden-Powell, the chief scout of the British empire, wrote the scout oath in 1908, he did not include a promise to be “morally straight”.

棘手的问题得到了解决。荣誉勋章人人有份当英国童军领袖罗伯特•贝登堡（Robert Baden-Powell）在1908年写下童军誓词的时候，并没有列入“品行端正”一项。

The school was trapped in the past, both the 1940s and 1950s - playground games were an endless fight against the Germans - and to some extent the late Victorian era, when the British Empire encompassed much of the globe.

所校被困在了过去，1940年代和1950年代——操场游戏就是与德国人无休止的打斗——在某种程度上也是维多利亚时代晚期，当时大英帝国占领了全球大部分地区。

After the war ended in 1947, India achieved independence from the British Empire and they were quickly presented with a bit of a unique problem.

1947 年战争结束后，印度从大英帝国获得独立，他们很快面临着一个独特的问题。

The power of the British Empire meant that it became played in every corner of the world, as sailors and soldiers would teach and then play local teams in every port they visited.

而英帝国的强盛又帮助它传播到世界各个角落，因为英国海员和士兵每到一处，就会向当地人传授足球技艺，并与当地人组成的球队切磋。

As the world increasingly unearths the horrors of British empire and colonialism, young Kenyans are working to change the narrative and recount a more balanced version of Kenya's colonial history.

随着全球日益发现大英帝国及其殖民主义的恐怖，肯尼亚年轻人正在努力改变种叙事形式，重讲述一个更加平衡的肯尼亚殖民史。

We'll see that fault-line again later in these programmes, because both the Roman and the British empires bloodily revisited this contested boundary between Egypt and Kush.

之后我们还会再看到它的身影， 因为罗马人与大英帝国都曾再度血洗埃及与库施之间条纷争不断的分界线。

As Canada was part of the British Empire, Roosevelt wanted its Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, to ensure the Royal Navy was sent there before Churchill gave in.

由于加拿大是大英帝国一部分罗斯福要加拿大总理麦肯锡·金在丘吉尔投降之前保证皇家海军填补空缺。

Prince Alemayehu was brought to the UK at the age of 7 along with thousands of cultural and religious artifacts plundered by the British Empire.

阿勒马耶胡王子在 7 岁时与数千件被大英帝国掠夺的文化和宗教文物一起被带到英国。