At the top of the index is the United Kingdom, followed by Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.

排名最高的是英国，其次是澳大利亚、新西兰和爱尔兰。

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Today it operates 235 lifeboat stations around the coast of the United Kingdom and Ireland, manned by volunteers.

今天，英国皇家救生艇协会旗下有235个由志愿者操控的救生艇站，遍布英国和爱尔兰海岸。

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Most native speakers of English are found in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand.

大多数母语为英语的人出现在英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、南非、爱尔兰和新西兰。

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That was one year after the union of Ireland with England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom.

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You see Ireland was part of the United Kingdom at that time.

在那个时候,爱尔兰是英国的一部分。

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Mr Robinson also said it was ironic, "that the moment when there seems a real possibility of some form of break-up of the United Kingdom that Northern Ireland was not the cause of it".

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Last year 2, 300 babies were born to mothers who were born themselves outside the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a three-fold increase from 2001 when 700 such babies were recorded.

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In the late 1960s, the conflict between mainly Protestant unionists, who want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, and largely Roman Catholic nationalists, who want it to be reunited with the rest of Ireland, exploded into a political and sectarian war, known as the Troubles.

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