The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter six. English and Empire or the sun never set on the English language.
十分鐘了解英語(yǔ)歷史。第六章，英語(yǔ)和帝國(guó)或曰英語(yǔ)的太陽(yáng)永不落。

With English making its name as the language of science, the Bible and Shakespeare, Britain decided to take it on tour.
隨著英語(yǔ)作為科學(xué)、圣經(jīng)和莎士比亞的語(yǔ)言一舉成名，英國(guó)決定讓它開(kāi)始世界巡演。

Asking only for land, wealth, natural resources, total obedience to the crown and a few local words in return.
而他們要求的回報(bào)是土地、財(cái)富、自然資源、對(duì)英王的忠誠(chéng)，以及一些當(dāng)?shù)卦~匯。

They went to the Caribbean looking for gold and a chance to really unwind – discovering the ‘barbeque’, the ‘canoe’ and a pretty good recipe for rum punch. They also brought back the word ‘cannibal’ to make their trip sound more exciting.
他們?nèi)ゼ永毡葘ふ尹S金以及真正放松的機(jī)會(huì)，于是發(fā)現(xiàn)了“燒烤”、“獨(dú)木舟”和朗姆潘趣酒的釀造秘訣。他們還帶回“食人者”這個(gè)詞，讓這一旅程聽(tīng)上去更加驚心動(dòng)魄。

In India there was something for everyone. ‘Yoga’ – to help you stay in shape, while pretending to be spiritual. If that didn’t work there was the ‘cummerbund’ to hide a paunch and - if you couldn’t even make it up the stairs without turning ‘crimson’ – they had the ‘bungalow’.
在印度，有些適合每個(gè)人的詞匯?！拌べぁ薄屇惚３稚聿牡耐瑫r(shí)還自稱(chēng)有精神上的作用。如果無(wú)效，至少還有個(gè)“寬腰帶”來(lái)隱藏大肚子。如果你上個(gè)臺(tái)階都能累到把臉漲得“通紅”，他們還有“平房”。

Meanwhile in Africa they picked up words like ‘voodoo’ and ‘zombie’ – kicking off the teen horror film.
同時(shí)，他們?cè)诜侵迣W(xué)會(huì)了“伏都教”和“僵尸”這類(lèi)詞，直接導(dǎo)致了后來(lái)的青少年恐怖電影風(fēng)潮。

From Australia, English took the words ‘nugget’, ‘boomerang’ and ‘walkabout’ - and in fact the whole concept of chain pubs.
英國(guó)人從澳洲拿來(lái)了“炸雞塊”、“飛去來(lái)器”和“徒步旅行”——實(shí)際上是連鎖酒吧的整體概念。

Between toppling Napoleon (1815) and the first World War (1914), the British Empire gobbled up around 10 millions square miles, 400 million people and nearly a hundred thousand gin and tonics, leaving new varieties of English to develop all over the globe.
在推翻拿破侖（1815年）和第一次世界大戰(zhàn)（1914年）之間，大英帝國(guó)吞并了大約1千萬(wàn)平方英里的土地，4億人口，近10萬(wàn)的杜松燒酒和補(bǔ)品，使得英語(yǔ)新興變種的發(fā)展遍及全球。

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