The fact that Great Britain is made up of three countries is still unknown to many people.

很多人仍然不知道英国由三个国家组成。

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They wanted a representative of the United Kingdom, so they basically made the rule that Great Britain had to send a team and not teams from the four individual countries.

他们希望由一个代表联合王国的队伍参赛，所以奥委会规定，大不列颠只能派出一个代表队参赛，不能派出四个代表队。

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It was about 5000 years ago, even before the first Egyptian pyramid that some amazing Neolithic monuments—tombs, were erected at various sites around Ireland, Great Britain and coastal islands nearby.

大约5000年前，甚至在第一个埃及金字塔建成之前，一些令人惊叹的新石器时代的遗迹——坟墓，就已经在爱尔兰、英国和附近的沿海岛屿的不同地方搭建起来了。

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Part of that is that along with Northern Italy, the Netherlands and England/Great Britain have, by far, the most urbanized population in Europe.

部分原因是因为和意大利北部一样,荷兰和英国拥有,欧洲到目前为止最城市化的人群

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We would know that there was a revolution; it was against Great Britain.

我们都知道有一个对抗大英帝国的革命

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How can the British teams compete with that and the fact that Great Britain gets three times less funding a year?

BBC: The untouchables

They seem to forget that Great Britain is predominantly a white Christian country.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Ethnic recruits get helping hand

It's been talked about so much that Great Britain haven't won a triathlon medal so the pressure was stacked up.

CNN: Brownlee brothers take triathlon by storm