The Byzantines were as secretive as the Chinese, however, and for many centuries the weaving and trading of silk fabric was a strict imperial monopoly.

然而，拜占庭人和中国人一样神秘，在许多世纪里，丝绸织物的编织和贸易是严格的帝国垄断。

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In 1959, Akihito broke with imperial tradition by marrying a commoner.

1959年,明仁天皇打破皇室传统,与一个平民结了婚。

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According to Webb, England already had a military imperial policy for more than a century before the American Revolution.

根据韦伯的说法，在美国独立战争前一个多世纪，英国就已经有了军事帝国政策。

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There can be no relations of trust in a large, imperial despotism.

那样的社会可以不需信任的关系,存在于大型，帝国的专制之中。

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CEO It's like the royal "we." It's more like the imperial CEO and they build up a huge amount of people around them and they very rarely get to the nub of the problem.

就像皇家的“我们“，更像帝王,他们在身旁埋下了很多的人脉,他们很少能够认识到问题的本质。

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However, the United States did have a brief imperial period a hundred years ago when it acquired many islands in the Pacific and a few in the Caribbean.

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As in imperial times there are no rival and parallel institutions of power in the form of a nobility, an imperial bureaucratic class, a military class or a religious hierarchy.

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How ironic if a final spasm of Russian imperial thinking prompted a new round of Russian disintegration.

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