A British astronomer was analyzing a spectrograph of sunlight, and he noticed a particular pattern of spectral lines that didn't match anything in the library.

一位英国天文学家在分析一台太阳光摄谱仪时，注意到一种特殊的光谱线模式，它与图书馆里的任何一种都不匹配。

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The Spanish group also bought Amey, a British services and project-management business that maintains three London Underground lines.

该公司还买下了英国集服务和项目管理于一身，其中包括3条伦敦地下通道的Amey公司。

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When the different rail companies operating the underground lines united in the thirties, it was decided that British Museum Station be closed for good and new platforms were added to Holborn.

三十年代，当运营不同地铁线路的轨道公司合并时，由于霍尔本站新增加了先进的月台，不列颠博物馆站被决定被关闭。

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The British writer of plays, George Colman,wrote these lines in seventeen sixty-two.

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In fact, given the nature of the operation, coalition casualties have been light. (In a battle for Nasiriya with the Ottomans in 1915, the overconfident British, whose supply lines were also stretched thin, lost 500 men.) Iraq has suffered an unknown but far higher number of combat casualties: several hundred Iraqis were reportedly killed in an engagement at Najaf on March 25th-26th.

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