Mr Bout’s old connections certainly helped him build a global empire in the 1990s, trading the surplus armouries of the Soviet empire for cash and minerals.

布特先生得益于过去的方方面面的关系。 前苏联军工产品生产过剩，他通过买卖这些军火，挣得了大量的现金和矿产，一个遍布全球的“布特”商业帝国在上世纪90年代得以建立。

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It prospered as the hub of a commercial and trading nation when the sun never set on the British Empire.

早在日不落帝国时代，它就已经是这个商贸国家繁荣的港口了。

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From the 14th to the 9th centuries BC it was the first capital of the Assyrian Empire, a city-state and trading platform of international importance.

公元前14世纪到公元前9世纪，亚述古城是城市国家亚述帝国的第一个都城，是重要的国际贸易平台。

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Now, to be sure, in Siberia in the far reaches of the north, North Asia, this empire amounted to little more than a series of trading posts, and it took a very long time for any semblance of Russian authority from Moscow and soon from St. Petersburg, for reasons that we'll see, to reach there.

现在,可以肯定,当时的俄国,在西伯利亚和北亚并没有多少商栈,俄国耗费了很多时间,才使得其首都市容变成现在这样,无论是莫斯科,还是之后的圣彼得堡,原因我们会讲到

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Dubh linn evolved into the settlement of Dyflin, which swelled to become a major trading empire with countries as far afield as continental Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

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Conservation is a fairly new idea - ivory used to be a major staple of British Empire trading.

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The agency empire includes trading companies, colleges, and even a hospital.

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