empires

例句:

• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.
  新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
  
• Portugal and Spain had possessed vast empires that waxed and waned.
  葡萄牙和西班牙都曾是经历了兴衰的大帝国。
  
• Around the Morgan and Rockefeller empires clustered a number of smaller kingdoms.
  在摩根和洛克菲勒帝国周围,麇集着一些较小的王国.
  
• Some empires manage to rebound but most don't.
  来自SA
• They don't make empires the way they used to.
  来自NEWYORKER
• Still, all empires have to start somewhere.
  来自THETIMES