1. But by the time Julius Caesar became the ruler of the Roman Empire, the calendar had been very badly mixed up.
    到了恺撒大帝成为罗马帝国统治者的时候，历法已经变得混乱不堪。

2. By a quirk of fate, Humboldt and Bonpland met Mariano Luis de Urquijo, Prime Minister of Spain, who was able to obtain for them the permission to visit the Spanish empire in South America.
    由于命运的安排，洪堡和庞普朗遇到了西班牙首相乌而吉乔，他可以使他们得到前往南美洲的西班牙帝国去访问的许可。

3. When I put them on, I shall be able to find out which men in my empire are unfit for their offices.
    当我穿上这样的衣服, 我就能查出我的帝国里哪些人是不称职的.

4. The top of the Empire State Building affords an excellent panorama of
    帝国大厦顶楼提供了一个俯瞰纽约市及其周围地区全景的良好场所。

5. His business empire was truly vast.
    他的企业规模极大.

6. Malaria is known to have caused the death of millions and even the fall of an empire, and some say that Rome fell primarily as a result of tremendous malaria deaths.
    据传疟疾曾使千百万人丧生，甚至灭亡了一个帝国。一些人说罗马的覆灭主要是由于疟疾造成了巨大的死亡。

7. From the seventeenth-century empire of Sweden, the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 must be one of the strangest tales of the sea.
    1628年，一艘大帆船在处女航时就沉没了，这个从容不迫7世纪瑞典帝国流传至今的故事无疑是航海史上最离奇的事件之一。