It once marked the border of Rome's empire, the easternmost edge of their domain.

它曾经是罗马帝国最东边的界河。

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Tucked away at the northern edge of the Empire, this convent was to her mind probably ideal.

也许在她看来，这座坐落在帝国北部边缘的修道院正是她想要的吧。

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Because they lived on the edge of the Persian Empire, they were ruled by the king of Persia.

亚述帝国和波斯帝国没有出产石头，人们使用晒干的黏土砖。

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Welsh, who was descended from a wealthy merchant family, might have seemed an unlikely investigator of military abuse at the edge of empire.

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These people are the technology camels, hauling the riches of the cutting-edge research centers across the vast expanse of the empire and making them available to the regular Dilberts, shoppers and keyboard jockeys.

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It was, after all, a (Roman) government that gave the name Britannia to a rather nondescript province on the northern edge of its empire.

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