This demand they made to a population that subsisted almost entirely by overseas trade! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
A considerable school of political thinkers in Britain was disposed to regard overseas possessions as a source of weakness to the kingdom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Chinese shipping was upon the seas, and there was a considerable overseas trade during that time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Like the Athenian empire, it was an overseas empire; its ways were sea ways, and its common link was the British Navy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
That much and no more seemed to many thinkers in the early part of the nineteenth century to be the limit set to overseas rule. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.