The country formally remained part of the British empire until 1982.

直到1982年，这个国家一直是大英帝国的一部分。

The British empire still exists on paper to this day.

表面上看，大英帝国至今仍然存在。

It later vied with London as the biggest metropolis in the British empire.

随后，加尔各答开始与伦敦竞争大英帝国的最大大都会的头衔。

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。

The history of the British empire in India is controversial with many views on all sides.

大英帝国在印度的历史充满争议，各方观点各异。

Bishop Anderson Jeremiah's name comes from another man, John Anderson, a Christian missionary during the British empire.

安德森·耶利米主教的名字来自另一个人，约翰·安德森，他是大英帝国时期的一名基督教传教士。

The british empire, at long last, appears to have found a powerful heir; pax americana-peace imposed by US domination.

不列颠帝国似乎终于找到了一个强大的继承人。美国强权下的世界和平—美国控制下实施的和平。

And before them, the British empire invaded Afghanistan on three separate occasions and failed to conquer them in each instance.

在他们之前，大英帝国曾三次入侵阿富汗，每次都未能征服这片土地。

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。

But recently many museums have been criticised for stealing ancient treasures during imperial times – the age of the British empire.

但最近，许多博物馆因在帝国时代——大英帝国时代——窃取古老珍宝而受到批评。

Not only have the French and British empires fallen, immigrants have moved back in to France and Britain from their former colonies.

不仅仅法国和英国帝国衰落，移民也从前殖民地回到了法国和英国。

This was the revolutionary government set up within the British empire in America.

这是大英帝国在美洲设立的革命政府。

And to understand it, you have to know about the British empire’s war for gold.

要了解它，您必须了解大英帝国的黄金战争。

IT GREW TO BECOME A CENTER OF WEALTH AND COMMERCE, SECOND ONLY TO LONDON IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

它逐渐成为财富和商业中心，在大英帝国中仅次于伦敦。

In a spirit of open inquiry, it is fair to question contemporary orthodoxy about the British and other empires.

本着公开探究的精神，质疑当代关于大英帝国和其他帝国的正统观念是公平的。

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这条纷争不断的分界线。

And no wonder that the sun never set on the British empire because even god couldn't trust the English in the dark.

难怪大英帝国日不落，因为即使是上帝也不相信黑暗中的英国人。

The British empire would thus afford, within itself, an immense internal market for every part of the produce of all its different provinces.

因此，大英帝国将为其所有不同省份的每一部分产品提供一个巨大的内部市场。

And I learned a great deal about the British colonial empire because I went to what is now Ghana when it was Gold Coast.

我对英国殖民帝国有了很多了解，因为我去了现在的加纳，当时那里还是黄金海岸。

She was also the first Empress of India and ruled the vast British overseas empire, on which it was said the sun never set.

她也是第一位印度皇后，统治着据说日不落的广阔的大英海外帝国。