The new Turkish republic he helped to build emerged from the ruins of a great empire.

他帮助创建的新土耳其共和国是在大帝国残存的领土上建立起来的。

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The ruins of these temples bear witness to the past greatness of the Roman Empire.

这些庙宇的废墟见证了罗马帝国过去的辉煌。

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The great city and the temples left in ruins by the Khmer Empire was a vivid reminder to a history of constant struggle between human beings and mother nature.

参观 吴哥古迹群的过程，也是让人真切感悟人类与大自然的斗争史的过程。

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An early research project was to interview all the surviving members of the national governments that sprang up in 1917 amid the ruins of the tsarist empire, only to be snuffed out by the Bolsheviks a few years later.

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Their differences was merely methodological, but the ruins of the great Soviet Empire that has no religious, ethnic, ideological and cultural unity is a place where people don't need much to become allies and friends and even less to become enemies for life.

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