This is what an empire looks like when it falls.

一个帝国衰落的时候看起来就是这样。

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By the sixteenth century, the Incas of South America ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from what is now Ecuador to central Chile.

到了16世纪，南美洲的印加人统治着一个帝国，它沿着太平洋海岸和安第斯高地，从现在的厄瓜多尔一直延伸到智利中部。

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Like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different habitats across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet, with an empire that extends from pole to pole.

像人类一样，虎鲸也在全球范围内开拓了一系列不同的栖息地，占据了地球上的每一个海洋流域，拥有一个从一极延伸到另一极的帝国。

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"Walt Disney,the master of an entertainment empire, the most complete and influential showman of his generation,has died."

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There were always battles and wars going on, on the boundaries, the frontiers of the Roman Empire, but within the center of the empire there was an amazing period of peace.

战争永远都在进行，在边界，罗马帝国边境，但在帝国中心却是一派和平盛世。

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God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

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But what if instead of a perpetual sole proprietorship, your dream is an empire?

FORBES: Fears of the Family-Owned Enterprise

All attempted to build an empire using the framework of a formerly democratic government.

ECONOMIST: Constitutional issues

When Kendall was growing up, American politicians denied that the United States was an empire.

NEWYORKER: Great Experiment