妈妈说，莫莉亲自负责挑选店里的糖果品种，现在她又想扩大她的糖果小帝国了。

Her mother says Mollie - who organises and selects all of the stock for each of the branches - is now determined to expand her empire.

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对外积极拓展，在竭力缔造“东亚小帝国”的同时，派遣赴唐使节，如饥似渴地汲取唐朝的先进文化，努力跻身于文明国家的行列。

Envoys were dispatched to China (then in Tang Dynasty) to absorb its advanced culture avidly, in the hope of being labeled as one of the civilized countries.

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俄罗斯在车臣的暴行可以追溯到19世纪，在一场血腥的殖民运动之后，这个面积小但石油丰富的地区被并入了沙皇帝国。

Russia's atrocities in Chechnya go back to the 19th century, when the diminutive but oil-rich region was annexed to the Czarist Empire after a bloody campaign of colonization.

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Because whenever we say,"Asia Minor," we're talking about that section around the Mediterranean that now is called Turkey. But it was called Asia Minor, generally,in the Roman Imperial Period.

因为当我们说到“小亚细亚“,指的便是地中海附近,现在那里叫土耳其，但在罗马帝国时代，它通常被称为小亚细亚。

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