沙克尔顿,一位英国商人兼海军军官,在他1914年探险之旅之前靠拍电影赚钱。
Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie.
殖民地居民和英国人都消费越来越多的殖民地商人从外国进口的服装和其他家庭用品。
Both the colonists and the British increasingly consumed clothing and other household items imported from foreign countries by colonial merchants.
由于殖民地对英国制造的消费品的需求不断增加,英国和殖民地的商人们得以兴旺发达。
British and colonial merchants prospered because of a demand in the colonies for increasing amounts of consumer goods made in Britain.
我们的祖父和曾祖父仅仅是有名望的英国或荷兰商人,他们来到殖民地发家致富,因为干得特别出色而留在了这里。
Our grandfathers and great- grandfathers were just respectable English or Dutch merchants, who came to the colonies to make their fortune, and stayed here because they did so well.
内政部估计,这并非因为英国商人特别谨慎,而是因为很难在国外收集证据。
The Home Office reckons this is not because British businessmen are especially scrupulous, but because it is hard to gather evidence abroad.
1612年,约恩·罗尔夫,一位英国商人,发现弗吉尼亚州拥有理想种植烟草的条件。
In 1612, John Rolfe, an English businessman, discovered that Virginia had ideal conditions for growing tobacco.
亨利八世(1509年至1547年在位):16世纪的英国经济繁荣,这使得来自中产阶级的商人和上层阶级的贵族从外貌上难以区分。
Henry VIII (rule 1509-1547 A.D.) : England prospered in the 16th century, and as a result, it became increasingly difficult to tell the merchants from the middle class from the nobility.
一位英国商人也证实,大量印第安人“躺在家中死去”。
The Indians “died in heapes as they lay in their houses” confirmed an English merchant.
早在英国统治时期,美国大陆就抛弃了传统的对破产商人的成见。
America threw off the old world's hostility to failed businessmen along with British rule.
英国商人为殖民者供应制成品和合同工,主要从烟草的回头货中获利。
English merchants supplied colonists with manufactured goods and bound labor and took their profits primarily from the return cargoes of tobacco.
他听从了休-莫斯(最出名的英国商人,从事东方器物买卖)的建议,只买那些品质最棒的。
He sought advice from Hugh Moss, a leading British dealer of Oriental works, and pursued only the best quality.
1707年波尔多红酒交易的供应商和不少其他商人声称他们运送的酒在战争中被英国战船掠夺,但事实很可能并非如此。
The vendors in the 1707 sales, and many others, claimed that their supplies were captured by British ships in the fighting; but they probably weren’t.
在对商人不屑一顾的英国,能够蜚声成名的企业家只有那种性格鲜明、凸显品牌特性的人。
THE only kind of entrepreneur who becomes famous in Britain, a nation sniffy about business people, is the flashy personality who embodies the brand.
2008年,中年商人哈梅施·普尼的为了躲债把自己锁进了“无主之地”堡垒。这栋综合楼位于英国怀特岛附近的索伦特海峡。
In 2008, a middle-aged businessman named Harmesh Pooni fended off his creditors by locking himself inside No man's Land Fort, a complex in the Solent straight near the Isle of Wight.
全英国的绝望的妈妈们花钱请一些并不可靠的商人将其不愿意要的婴儿带到这所医院,结果很多在途中就丢失或者夭折了。
Despairing mothers across England paid dubious businessmen to offload their unwanted babies on the state: many were lost or dead on arrival.
一位不愿透露姓名的英国商人(也有可能是位经济学家,似乎没有人确定)在冥想19世纪的中国所蕴藏的商机时说道。
So said a nameless British businessman (or economist, nobody seems quite sure), pondering the commercial possibilities offered by China in the 19th century.
在十九世界,美国人和英国商人夺取了秘鲁的矿业财富。
In the 19th century, American and British businessmen snatched up Peru's mineralwealth.
此后,商人们对于各种繁文缛节和隐性税收表现得更为大度。(英国现在比德国占有更多的经济份额)。
Since then business has put up with ever more red tape and stealth taxes (Britain's state is now bigger, as a share of the economy, than Germany's).
她至今仍然控制着位于布鲁塞尔的艾尔热工作室的整体艺术规划(工作室的日常运作由法妮的第二任丈夫尼克·罗得威尔负责,他是一个英国商人)。
She remains in overall artistic control of the Herge Studios in Brussels (day to day the studios are run by Fanny's second husband, Nick Rodwell, a British businessman).
最初的时候,文章主要是依靠国外商人的报道,在英国写成的。
Initially, the paper was written largely in London, with reports from merchants abroad.
不只是有商人银行家和英国《金融时报》。
凯蒂是一位商人的妻子,他十分怀念英国大街上的打折零售商。
Katy, a trader's wife, misses the discount retailers on British high streets.
英国媒体近日报道,英国商人安德鲁·谢特尔不慎将自己的手机掉进海里。
According to UK media reports, a business man named Andrew Cheatle accidentally dropped his cell phone into the sea.
一位美国商人打赌一个英国客商走遍世界不可能不被认出来,赌金是10万元。
An American businessman bet a British investor $100, 000 that it was not possible to walk around the world without being recognised.
瑞典寻求扩大其影响力,建立一个农业(烟草),毛皮交易殖民地绕过法国和英国的商人。
TheSwedes sought to expand their influence by creating an agricultural (tobacco) and fur-trading colony to bypass French and British merchants.
一位英国商人也证实,大量印第安人“躺在家中死去”。
The Indians "died in heapes as they lay in their houses" confirmed an English merchant.
能说某种外国语的英国商人仍可算是新奇人物。
British businessman who can speak a foreign language is still something of a novelty.
能说某种外国语的英国商人仍可算是新奇人物。
British businessman who can speak a foreign language is still something of a novelty.
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