Machu Picchu was constructed around 1450, at the height of the Inca empire, and was abandoned less than 100 years later, as the empire collapsed under Spanish conquest.
马丘比丘建于1450年前后，与印加王国在相同高度上，在之后的不到100年时间里，西班牙的入侵导致了帝国的瓦解，这座古城也成为废墟，遭到了遗弃。
In a military sense Great Britain and the British Empire are today the spearhead of resistance to world conquest.
在军事上说，英国和英帝国的今天是抵抗征服世界的先锋。
The image of a human empire oppressing the rest of nature is on metaphor. It is an actual pattern of imperial conquest, plunder, eventual exhaustion and collapse.
人类帝国凌驾于自然之上，不只是一副借助隐喻的手法所描绘的生动图像，更是人类对于自然的实际的行为模式：帝国式的征服、掠夺，最终消耗殆尽直至崩溃。
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