Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, talks about a road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea.

因此，这本书名为《追逐大海：迷失在中亚帝国的幽灵中》，讲述了一段从塔什干到卡拉卡尔的公路之旅。在卡拉卡尔，数百万人的生命因海洋的慢慢干涸而湮灭。

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The novel is a paean to the end of empire.

该小说奏响了一个帝国落寞的赞歌。

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Perhaps, given Moscow's deep-seated love of empire, the effort would have been futile.

考虑到莫斯科对帝国根深蒂固的热爱，或许这些努力都会是徒劳一场。

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The taste of empire is in the mouth of the people."

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or any of the countries that used to be in the empire for exceedingly good charity work

或者来自曾经是英国殖民地的做出突出慈善事业的人，

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You see, in the previous empires, like the Assyrian Empire, or these kinds of-- the Egyptian Empire, when people conquered other peoples, often all they wanted was tribute.

之前的各个帝国，比如亚述帝国，或者埃及帝国-,当他们战胜其他民族时，往往只是觊觎贡品。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Humanity has experienced thousands of years of Empire but less than a century without emperors.

FORBES: To The Shores Of Tripoli: Empires Fell; Dictators Arose; Republicanism Prevails

In the days of empire this was la mission civilisatrice - the civilising mission.

BBC: Part Three - France and the World

This, he said in his slightly old-fashioned way, was his duty as a servant of empire.

ECONOMIST: Sir Robin Black