Britain has always been the principal source—ninety percent of Australians are of British descent, and Britain has provided one million migrants since the Second World War.

英国一直是澳大利亚移民的主要来源国——90%的澳大利亚人是英国后裔，自二战以来，英国已经提供了100万移民。

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By 1800 more than a thousand steam engines were in use in the British Isles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steam engine production until the 1830s.

到了1800年，一千多台蒸汽机在不列颠群岛运行，直到19世纪30年代，英国一直垄断着蒸汽机的生产。

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Wherever he went, he was never "of" the group; he was always the "other," considered foreign in Britain, British in Italy, and "not American" in the United States.

无论他走到哪里，他都不属于那个团体；他总是“另一个人”，在英国是外国人，在意大利是英国人，在美国则是“非美国人”。

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In nineteen forty, Polish fliers had taken part in the Battle of Britain, piloting British warplanes against the German Luftwaffe.

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I think their slogan is "Keeping Britain British".

我想它的口号是“让英国保持英国风”。

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He said Britain would accept nothing but the Columbia River as the southern border of British Oregon.

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's other big European presence is through British Sky Broadcasting Britain's biggest satellite channel which has 8.7 million subscribers.

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But it pointed out that in its legal dealings with Spain, a notorious hangout for British crooks, Britain receives four times as many extradited suspects as it sends.

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The Nico Colchester Foundation's aim is to help continental writers understand Britain and British writers understand continental Europe.

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