The British Empire gradually disappeared and it was replaced by the British Commonwealth or the Commonwealth of Nations in 1931.

大英帝国逐渐地消失了，在1931年，它被英联邦或大英国协取而代之。

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Fledgling democracies also routinely ban it as a way of proving their fitness to join the commonwealth of nations.

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As vividly depicted in the attached column by William Safire published in today's New York Times, Gorbachev is presently acting as the spoiler, the obstacle to the consolidation of a Commonwealth of Independent States -- a free alliance of sovereign nations explicitly designed to replace and terminate the old Soviet Union.

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But most of these nations opted to join the Commonwealth, a club of countries all tied through history to the UK and the monarchy.

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