来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明 第15集》

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  Europeans really control the globe.
  欧洲真正地控制了世界
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  The Americans, in a smaller way,
  美国紧随其后
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  are part of the New Imperialism.
  从小处说也是新帝国主义的一部分
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  Let me just start out by posing the question,
  我以一个问题来开始
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  and I sent all this stuff around to you,
  然后告诉你们与之相关的东西
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  so I don't have to scribble on the board
  就不用在黑板上写板书了
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  and you don't have to
  你们也不必
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  try to figure out what it is that's written on the board,
  费力弄清我究竟写了些什么
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  because it's hard to see from here.
  因为从你们那里看不清楚黑板
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  If you were going to point out or to claim
  如果想要指明或者提出
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  that there was a central reason for the New Imperialism,
  新帝国主义产生的主要原因
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  why even Bismarck,
  甚至为什么