It's spoken in many countries of the world because of the British Empire.

由于大英帝国的存在，世界上很多国家都说这种语言。

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The British Empire once covered large parts of the world.

大英帝国曾经占有过世界上的大片地方。

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Alexander the Great, remember, wanted to set up a one world, a universal empire.

亚历山大大帝想要建立，统一的帝国。

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Historians agree Armenians were massacred by the Ottoman Empire - what was to become Turkey - during World War I.

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When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.

当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。

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Here, Quest gets an insider's guide to probably the most famous skyscraper in the world -- the Empire State Building.

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The proposed new publicly-listed REIT consists of twelve office properties, six retail properties, and one development site and is anchored by the world-famous officer tower known as The Empire State Building.

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