To divide the empire into English core and colonial periphery, as Bailyn does, devalues the achievements of colonial culture.

把帝国划分为英国核心和殖民地外围，就像拜伦所做的那样，会贬低殖民文化的成就。

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The British empire carried English to all those countries on which the sun never set; American economic and cultural clout ensured English's dominance after the British empire had faded.

大英帝国将英语带到了那么多的国度——在这些国家，太阳永远不会落下；在大英帝国没落之后，美国的经济和文化影响力确保了英语的统治地位。

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The British empire became the global superpower of the 19th century. And the world speaks English, not French.

大英帝国成了十九世纪的全球超级大国，现在全球都在说英语，而不是法语。

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We forget about the enormous trading vitality of Asia, even sea vitality and land vitality at the same time, but they are without any question by this point-- with the decline of the Spanish empire, which begins before this course-- the Dutch and the English.

我们先不考虑亚洲大量的贸易活动,包括同时的陆上和海上贸易,在十七世纪之前,随着西班牙帝国的衰退,欧洲最大的贸易实体,毫无疑问是荷兰和英国

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