对长途贸易的依赖也意味着，伟大的中东帝国无论是实际上还是象征意义上，都是建立在流沙之上的。
Dependence on long-distance trade also meant that the great empires of the Middle East were built both literally and figuratively on shifting sand.
另外一个人想，大英帝国在印度只是“意见的帝国”，建立在“土著居民反思自己力量”的不情愿之上。
The British empire in India was merely "an empire of opinion", thought another, founded on the unwillingness of "the natives to reflect upon their own strength".
任何关于特权利益的讨论都不该被误解：联系密切两国的特权是相互的，基于互相尊重的基础之上，而不是旧的帝国主义情谊。
Any talk of a sphere of privileged interests must not be misunderstood: the privilege of close ties is a mutual one, based on mutual respect, not on old imperial sentiments.
这是一个很好的问题，你要明白，罗马力量如此之大，都是建立在帝国的思想形态之上。
It's a very good question, and you've got to realize that so much of the power of Rome was built on the ideology of the emperor.
腾讯，目前中国最成功的公司之一，其帝国就是建立在这些无数的小额交易之上。
Tencent, now one of China's most successful companies, built its empire on countless of these mini transactions.
人类帝国凌驾于自然之上，不只是一副借助隐喻的手法所描绘的生动图像，更是人类对于自然的实际的行为模式：帝国式的征服、掠夺，最终消耗殆尽直至崩溃。
The image of a human empire oppressing the rest of nature is on metaphor. It is an actual pattern of imperial conquest, plunder, eventual exhaustion and collapse.
人类帝国凌驾于自然之上，不只是一副借助隐喻的手法所描绘的生动图像，更是人类对于自然的实际的行为模式：帝国式的征服、掠夺，最终消耗殆尽直至崩溃。
The image of a human empire oppressing the rest of nature is on metaphor. It is an actual pattern of imperial conquest, plunder, eventual exhaustion and collapse.
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