Before Thomas Edison was ten, he had already read History of England, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, History of the World, and the Age of Reason.

托马斯·爱迪生在十岁之前就已经读完了《英格兰历史》《罗马帝国的兴衰》《世界历史》和《理性时代》等书籍。

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England produced Shakespeare; the British Empire the six - shilling novel.

英格兰生了莎士比亚；大英国则生了六先令(一部的)小说。

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They were British settlers who moved to the Atlantic region from the United States. These people were known as United Empire Loyalists because of their loyalty to England.

他们是从美国移居大西洋的英国人，他们被称为联合帝国忠臣，是因为他们对英国忠心。

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New England looms in less than two weeks, and the Empire State Building is headed to Brooks Brothers to pick out a crisp blue suit.

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He cheerfully looks forward to a future in which Scotland's independence is truly won, Ireland is united, England is a republic, and the United Kingdom has vanished along with the Empire for which it was brought into being.

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This religious revival may prove to be no deeper and no longer-lasting then the Christian revival in Victorian England (though that lasted two-thirds of a century, and helped to build a British empire).

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