By 1819 the British conquest of most India was almost complete.

到1819年英国对印度的征服已基本完成。

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The revanche du berceau (“revenge of the cradle”) dreamed of by some romantic nationalists as retaliation for the British conquest of 1759 didn’t seem so far-fetched.

但一些理想的民族主义者以“摇篮的报复”来回击英国1759年的占领[1]这一梦想，却似乎没有如此深远的影响。

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The revanche du berceau (" revenge of the cradle ") dreamed of by some romantic nationalists as retaliation for the British conquest of 1759 didn't seem so far-fetched.

但一些理想的民族主义者以“摇篮的报复”来回击英国1759年的占领[1]这一梦想，却似乎没有如此深远的影响。

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You have to scrape a bit to reveal some older prejudices: the British conviction that the Japanese are capable of unusual cruelty and the Japanese conviction that the British are intolerably self-righteous about their own history of conquest and colonisation in Asia.

ECONOMIST: Don��t mention the war