The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century.

英国第一次企图把爱尔兰变成殖民地是在12世纪。

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The eighteenth-century British Admiralty had few coercive powers over its officers.

18世纪英国海军部对其官员有很小的强制权力。

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The British Empire flourished in the 19th century.

英帝国在19世纪曾昌盛一时。

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In the beginning of the century where religious leaders, just because religious leaders had authority and where given control by the British.

在20世纪开始的时候，宗教领导，正是因为宗教领导有,权威，受到英国的控制。

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This was a 19th century British law case that's famous and much debated in law schools.

这是19世纪英国的一则法律案例,众多法学院争论不休的著名案例。

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And the reinvention in the nineteenth century of British identity will also have a lot to do with fear of the Irish, "The enemy within," As they were perceived.

十九世纪英国民认同感的重建,和对爱尔兰的惧怕也有很大关系,"家贼难防",他们是这样看待爱尔兰的

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The nineteenth was the British century, of industry and empire, the workshop of the world, Waterloo and the Great Exhibition.

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The 19th century was the British century.

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And if one were to make hay over the virtues or deficits of nineteenth-century British poetry or twentieth-century Irish poetry, then one should encounter the full range of Tennyson's or Yeats's work before jumping, or slouching, to conclusions.

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