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British civil servants in remote India developed the practice of bidding for the privilege of calling the trump suit, thus introducing "auction bridge."

1903年，远在印度的英国文职人员发明了双方叫价以决定王牌的竞叫原则，从此引入了"竞叫桥牌"。

Indeed, it was a Bengali woman that lowered the Union Jack in Bombay to end the British rule in India.

事实上，正是孟加拉妇女在孟买降下了英国国旗，结束了英国在印度的统治。

However, at the time not all Europeans were banned from the country — in 1774 a Scottish nobleman, George Bogle, came to Shigatse to investigate trade for the British East India Company, introducing the first potatoes into Tibet.

然而并不是所有欧洲人都被从西藏驱逐出去，在1774年一个苏格兰贵族乔治进入了日喀则，他是为英国东印度公司做市场调查的，他第一次把土豆传入西藏。

The great Scottish plant hunter Robert Fortune, who ended China's tea monopoly by planting Darjeeling on behalf of the British East India Company, visited Bohea during a three-year voyage in the mid-19th century.

伟大的苏格兰植物学家罗伯特·福钦曾代表英国东印度公司种植大吉岭茶，从而结束了中国茶叶的垄断局面，他在19世纪中叶游历3年，期间拜访了武夷山。

Without Gandhi, India might still be part of the British Empire.

如果没有甘地，印度可能仍然是大英帝国的一部分。

With experience, like Brown and Raglan, in the Peninsular War, he had also served in India and with the British Legion during the Carlist Wars in Spain.

而在西班牙皇室继位战争时期，他在印度服务于得皇家军团。

In India, for example, more than 66% of the population in some regions experienced famine during British colonialism a century ago.

在印度，例如，超过了66％的人口一些地区经历了英国的殖民统治一个世纪前的饥荒。

India's colonisation by the British coincided with major changes in the world economy—industrialisation, and significant growth in production and trade.

42印度被英国殖民的同时，世界经济也发生了巨大变化——工业化发展，以及生产与贸易的大幅增加。

The bony countrywoman living in northern India said during an interview with British media that she plans to breastfeed her baby daughter for at least 3 years.

瘦骨嶙峋的洛翰住在印度北部一个村庄，在接受英国媒体采访时，她称至少未来3年要坚持母乳哺育女儿。

But instruments can cut both ways. Lakshmi Iyer of Harvard has used the technique to reveal some unhappy consequences of the Raj that might have made Mr Singh's Oxford audience squirm. The British, she points out, did not wrest direct control of India all at once.

不过工具也能起到了双刃剑的作用，哈佛的拉克希米·伊勒便利用了工具的这类作用技术的揭示了一些在大英帝国殖民统治下的不愉快后果，辛格的牛津听众们可能会因这些后果而骚动。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。