As head of the commonwealth the Queen has links with the past.

作为英联邦的首领，女王常常是与过去联系在一起的。

The protection, security, and defence, of the commonwealth, the effect of their labour this year, will not purchase its protection, security, and defence, for the year to come.

联邦的保护、安全和防御，即他们今年的劳动成果，将不会购买来年的保护、安全和防御。

Between the 1770s and 1790s the Commonwealth's three major neighbours, Austria, Russia and Prussia would effectively divide up the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between them in a process known as the Partitions of Poland.

1770 年代至 1790 年代期间，联邦的三个主要邻国奥地利、俄罗斯和普鲁士有效地瓜分了波兰立陶宛联邦， 这一过程被称为“瓜分波兰” 。

It is—however dishonouring to us as a nation—certain that, by some fault in our commonwealth, the poor poet has not in these days, nor has had for two hundred years, a dog's chance.

可以肯定的是——尽管这对我们这个国家来说是一种耻辱——由于我们国家的一些错误，这位可怜的诗人在这些日子里， 也没有 200 年的机会， 没有狗的机会。