人们制造的东西及其制造方式决定了城市的兴衰，也影响着帝国的隆替。

The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decline, and influence how empires rise and fall.

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在罗马帝国时期（公元前37年-公元476年），制造紫色染料非常困难。

During the time of the roman Empire (37 BC-476 AD), it was very difficult to make purple dye.

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哈兰德与沃尔夫造船厂在顶峰时期雇员达35,000人，它制造的船舶帮助英国成就了帝国霸业，并在战时捍卫了帝国领土(还有命运多舛的泰坦尼克号)。

At its peak Harland and Wolff employed 35,000 people to make the ships that linked Britain to its empire and defended it in wartime (as well as the doomed Titanic).

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That border, excuse me, they are relics the British Empire are exiting in the minds of map-makers and politicians, not in the minds of people.

那个边境，不好意思，是大英帝国所建造的，只存在于,地图制造者和政治家的脑中，而人们并不认可它。

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