The effort will help reduce carbon dioxide releases from the Empire State Building by more than one hundred thousand tons a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

The Russian empire is one of those empires that continued, arguably-- not arguably, it was the case-- after the four empires disappeared with World War I.

俄帝国可以说是,那些得以延续的帝国之一,这的确是事实,毕竟此前的四大帝国在一战中相继陨落

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one of the biggest tabloids in the Rupert Murdoch empire,

鲁珀特•默多克帝国最大的小报之一，

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One of his first jobs was with the company responsible for designing the Empire State Building.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

One is that during the Second Empire, which was that regime of Napoleon III that lasted from 1852 to till he was really rounded up by the Prussians in 1870.

一个是法国当时正处于法兰西第二帝国时期,在拿破仑三世的统治之下,这段时期始于一八五二年,直到一八七零年他被普鲁士军队所俘虏

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The Empire State Building opened in nineteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

You really have, therefore, for in some way the first time in history, a dream of making all of his empire basically universal, a dream of a universal vision, for one world, under one kind of culture, one kind of language.

因此某种程度上说，这是历史上第一次出现，梦想建立统一的帝国，同一个世界的愿景，同一种文化，同一种语言。

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