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The brawl ends in a stand-off.But the battle lines are drawn.Let's get out of here!

争吵打闹以僵局结束 但是战线开始形成 我们快离开这!

The british refuse to give up their most profitable trade.

英国人不肯放弃自己最赚钱的贸易

It supplied them with as much as one-sixth of all revenues coming into the British treasury,

鸦片为他们提供了国库总收入的 六分之一

so the opium trade was incredibly important to the British.

所以鸦片贸易对英国人来说 至关重要

Within a year,British warships bombard China's coastline.

一年内 英国军舰轰炸了中国的海岸线

China has 26 times the manpower of Britain.

中国的人力是英国的二十六倍

But Britain, the world's leading industrial nation,Has ten times the firepower.

但英国 世界领先的工业国家 其火力是中国的十倍

The old order gives way to the new.

新秩序取代了旧秩序

For the next four decades,Britain's opium sales to china reach ten million pounds a year.

之后的四十年 英国销往中国的鸦片一年就达到了一千万磅

Over one billion dollars today.

价值超过现在的十亿美元

Industry and commerce make Britain a superpower,

工商业使得英国成为了超级大国

Soon the largest empire in the story of mankind.

并很快成为了人类历史上最大的帝国

From South Africa to Australia,Hong Hong to Canada,

从南非到澳大利亚 从香港到加拿大

A global empire on which the sun never sets.

都遍布着日不落帝国的足迹

重点讲解

1、come into

继承(财产、封号等)

My father has just come into a fortune in diamonds.

我父亲刚刚继承一大批钻石。

在…中起作用

We don't really know where Hortense comes into all this.

我们真的不清楚霍滕斯在这中间起什么作用。

It's an unrestricted journey, and rules of any sort don't come into it.

这是一次没有任何限制的旅行，所有的规则都不起作用。

2、supply

供给;供应;提供

an agreement not to produce or supply chemical weapons.

不生产或供应化学武器的协议

a pipeline which will supply the major Greek cities with Russian natural gas.

从俄罗斯向希腊主要城市输送天然气的管道

(尤指大量的)补给，补给品，日用物资

What happens when food and gasoline supplies run low?

如果食物和汽油供应减少，会出现什么情况呢？

The country's only supplies are those it can import by lorry from Vietnam.

这个国家仅有的补给品是用卡车从越南进口来的。

供应量;供给量;储备

The brain requires a constant supply of oxygen.

大脑需要持续供氧。

Most urban water supplies in the United States now contain fluoride in varying amounts.

现在美国大部分城市供水中都存在含量不一的氟化物。