妈妈说，莫莉亲自负责挑选店里的糖果品种，现在她又想扩大她的糖果小帝国了。
Her mother says Mollie - who organises and selects all of the stock for each of the branches - is now determined to expand her empire.
对外积极拓展，在竭力缔造“东亚小帝国”的同时，派遣赴唐使节，如饥似渴地汲取唐朝的先进文化，努力跻身于文明国家的行列。
Envoys were dispatched to China (then in Tang Dynasty) to absorb its advanced culture avidly, in the hope of being labeled as one of the civilized countries.
俄罗斯在车臣的暴行可以追溯到19世纪，在一场血腥的殖民运动之后，这个面积小但石油丰富的地区被并入了沙皇帝国。
Russia's atrocities in Chechnya go back to the 19th century, when the diminutive but oil-rich region was annexed to the Czarist Empire after a bloody campaign of colonization.
他的庞大帝国因为一颗小毒瘤面临了重大威胁。(《世界新闻报》关闭之前，只给新闻集团带来不到1%的业务收益。一个头脑清醒的巨头都应该接受意见早就将其转让，但默多克对新闻出版有着很深的情结。)
His entire empire is threatened by the rot in a small part of it. Before he closed it, the News of the World contributed less than 1% of News Corp's business.
我们不知道每一个人背后都有潮起潮落，这浪潮可以把大英帝国像小木片一样浮起来，如果他有决心记住这个。
We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.
对博思300名合伙人每个人来说最重要的是，要进行有意义的交易，掌控方向，在这片多元化、低利率的帝国里，公司盈利高，但要着眼小份股权。
Most important, each of Booz's 300 partners would have to trade meaningful sway over the direction of a highly profitable firm for a minuscule stake in a diversified, lower-margin empire.
过去几个世纪的欧洲历史，可以这么说，就是奥斯曼帝国史和一撮阻挠奥斯曼实现帝国野心的蕞尔小邦的历史。
The history of Europe over the last centuries can be seen as the history of the Ottoman Empire and a few annoying, small nations that thwarted Ottoman ambitions.
而小邦小国位于大帝国的边缘，对大帝国的君主总是憎恨的。
And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire.
而小邦小国位于大帝国的边缘，对大帝国的君主总是憎恨的。
And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire.
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