The acts limited trade with the Empire to British ships, but by classifying all colonists as British, the acts allowed North Americans to develop their own ships.

该法案将与帝国的贸易限制在英国船只中；但是，通过将所有殖民者归类为英国国籍，该法案也允许北美人建造属于他们自己的船只。

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Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

地震带位于太平洋的大不列颠哥伦比亚省、华盛顿州、俄勒冈州和北加州沿海的北美板块，近700英里长。

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I'm a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, I specialize in cultural psychology, examining similarities and differences between East Asians and North Americans.

我是英属哥伦比亚大学的心理学教授，专攻文化心理学，研究东亚人和北美人之间的异同。

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French troops in Canada built a fort to control passage to the lake as a defense against British troops moving north.

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For this reason, British and American forces decided instead to attack the Italian and German troops occupying North Africa.

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The British Hudson's Bay Company also built a trading center on the Columbia and claimed a large area north of it.

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Four decades later Henry Lee Norris, an American living in Scotland, started the North British Rubber Co.

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Tribes in the north of British Columbia are threatening court action to block Northern Gateway, a planned oil pipeline.

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For an answer, one would do well to look at the experience of our neighbor to the north, British Columbia.

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