大英帝国

But until that time, until 1588, you'll learn how to build ships and how to command them—you'll obey Alban Caradoc, Master Shipwright and Pilot and Member of Trinity House, or you'll never have a license.

在这之前，也就是到1588年前，你得留在这儿好好学造船，学驾驶——你要好好听我奥班·凯拉多克教导，我可是领航船长、造船总监和大英帝国港务局官员。要不然你可是没法拿到出海执照。

With three Olympic medals, Pauline Davis retired at her peak. The woman who was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2004 today gives back to athletics what the sport gave to her by training talented young Bahamian sprinters.

在自己运动生涯的巅峰，波琳选择了急流勇退，悉尼奥运会结束后，波琳宣布退役，2004年，波琳也被授予大英帝国勋章，以表彰她为巴哈马体育事业的做出的贡献。

Weynomon's letter finally reached the gloved hand of a British monarch during a memorial ceremony that coincided with the traditional funeral blessing. Wearing a goose-feather bustle and deerskin leggings, Boz sum knelt before Queen Elizabeth II and gave her a copy of his ancestor's handwritten plea.

纪念仪式和传统葬礼的祝福活动同时举行，仪式进行中，维约诺蒙的信终于递交到大英帝国君主带着手套的手中，波祖姆身穿鹅毛裙和鹿皮绑腿，跪倒在伊丽莎白女王面前，奉上祖先信函的复制件。

By that treaty, also, the differences which had arisen under the treaty of Ghent respecting the right claimed by the United States for their citizens to take and cure fish on the coast of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America, with other differences on important interests, were adjusted to the satisfaction of both parties.

根据《根特和约》，美国主张其公民拥有在大英帝国的美洲属地海岸捕鱼和加工鱼产品的权利，由此引起争端。通过1818年订立的上述条约，这一争端及其它涉及双方重大利益的分歧亦已得到解决，双方都深感满意。

It is believed that these diseases were spread from the British Empire in the past.

据认为，这些疾病的蔓延，从大英帝国在过去的。

Hell it took the British Empire nearly what almost 900 years since Richard I's Magna Charta?

从查理一世的自由大宪章以来，大英帝国花了近900年的时间？

Although the British Empire is no more, many of the patriotic traditions fostered in its prime by its exiled subjects still flourish, though now in different parts of the world.

尽管大英帝国早已风光不再，但许多由流亡在外的英国人在它全盛时期形成的爱国传统现今仍然盛行于世界各地。英国人在很多大城市和商业中心都有自己的聚居点。

Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

标准译文是：在这种情况下，我很自然地就被吸引进伦敦这个大污水坑里去，大英帝国所有的游民懒汉也都是汇集到这里来的。

The tobacco-growing plantation owners in the South enjoyed a monopoly in the British Empire, but the manufacturers in New England were prohibited from making certain products for export.

在南方种植烟草的地主在大英帝国之下成了大富翁，但是在新英格兰的人被禁止制造某些产品外销。

A person who has "G.B.E."

的是大英帝国的大十字勋章爵士；带有&K.B.E。&

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。