It appears that in the 21st century, the sun continues to never set on the French empire.

看来在 21 世纪，法兰西帝国的太阳永远不会落下。

Segment 28b: A Farewell To Empires, treats the postwar fall of the French and British empires, and the resulting chaos.

28段第二部分，告别帝国，我们将分析法国和英国帝国在战后的衰亡以及随之而来的混乱。

What remains are the final vestiges of the ancient French colonial empire that simply never desired independence for themselves and have thus remained a part of 21st-century France.

遗留下来的是古代法国殖民帝国的最后残余，这些地区从来没有想过要自己独立，因此仍然是 21 世纪法国的一部分。

New France-It refers to the French empire in North America from 1608 to1763, governing two continental river systems, the St.Lawrence and the Mississippi.

新法兰西——指1608年至1763年间在北美的法兰西帝国，管辖圣劳伦斯河和密西西比河两大大陆河流系统。

Just for fun, here are some things that would happen if we added in all of the territory that the French colonial empire once controlled in North America and the Caribbean.

只是为了好玩，如果我们把法国殖民帝国曾经在北美和加勒比地区控制的所有领土加进去，会出现这样一些情况。

Back in 1960 when the French empire still spanned much more of the globe, France became the fourth country to successfully test and detonate a nuclear weapon after the United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.

早在 1960 年，当法兰西帝国的领土仍然横跨全球时，法国就成为了继美国、苏联和英国之后第四个成功试验并引爆核武器的国家。

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。