He was thwarted by the fact that the British were besieging his observation site at Pondicherry in India.
英国人包围了他在印度本地治里的观察点，这一事实使他受挫。
British adventurer Alastair Humphreys had ridden his bike around the world, walked across India, and rowed from Africa to South America.
英国探险家阿拉斯泰尔·汉弗莱斯曾骑自行车环游世界，徒步穿越了印度，还从非洲划船到南美洲。
Inspired by Halley's suggestion of a way to pin down the scale of the Solar System, teams of British and French astronomers set out on expeditions to places as diverse as India and Siberia.
受哈雷提出的确定太阳系大小的方法启发，英国和法国天文学家团队开始在印度和西伯利亚等地考察。
The word came into the English language during the British occupation of India during the eighteenth century.
在英军占领印度thewordcameinto theEnglishlanguageduring the British occupationof India during the eighteenth century。
We are not the British in India.
我们不是印度的英国人。
She arrived in Madras in 1771 with her young daughter. She was far from the first British woman traveller in India but she was an early one: fewer than 100 European women and children lived there.
1771年她和她的小女儿到达了马德拉斯市，但她不是第一位到印度的英国妇女，但是她仍然属于早期的一批，因为当时在那里生活的欧洲妇女和儿童还不到100人。
A stark example is the Bengal famine of 1943, during the last days of the British rule in India.
一个鲜明的例子是1943年，英国统治印度的最后一段时期，孟加拉国所爆发的大范围饥荒。
On the other hand, the British did get out of India without fighting, an event which very few observers indeed would have predicted until about a year before it happened.
在另一方面，英国人确实未经战斗就退出了印度，只有为数极少的几个观察员在此事的大约一年前实际能预测到。
The region was annexed by the British Empire and stayed part of British India until 1947.
这个地区由大不列颠帝国统治，在1947年成为英国人统治的印度的一部分。
Mauritius is the largest investor in India, the British Virgin Islands one of the biggest in China.
毛里求斯是印度最大的投资者，英属维尔京群岛是在中国最大的投资者。
The biggest new market for western universities is likely to be India, according to a study by the British Council and the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company.
根据英国文化协会和我们的姊妹公司经济学人情报部门的一项研究，对西方国家的大学来说最大的新市场很可能是在印度。
The British empire in India was merely "an empire of opinion", thought another, founded on the unwillingness of "the natives to reflect upon their own strength".
另外一个人想，大英帝国在印度只是“意见的帝国”，建立在“土著居民反思自己力量”的不情愿之上。
It was built up as a coal station for British merchant ships traveling to India, and its large natural harbor should make it a regional hub.
它是英国商船运往印度的煤碳中转站，它超大的天然海港理所当然的使之成为该地区的枢纽中心。
From the Writers' Building in Calcutta, known as Kolkata in India, the British once ran colonial India.
从加尔各答的作家大厦出发，英国人曾经在这里建立了印度殖民地。
AROUND four centuries ago, British capital started flowing into India, creating the East India Company, and laying the foundations of the empire.
大约四个世纪之前，英国便开始向印度注入资本，创建了东印度公司，为大英帝国奠定了在印度的基石。
During his rule, international trade through the British East India Company increased dramatically.
在他的统治时期，英国东印度公司的国际贸易量急剧增加。
Most of these come from India and China, although a modest but increasing number are British.
其中大部分来自中国和印度，英国留学生人数也有微量增长。
Many can date that ancestry to the 18th - and early 19th-centuries, when British employees of the East India Company tended to come to India without wives, and found local women to fill the gap.
许多人的祖先可以追溯到18世纪和19世纪早期，当时东印度公司的英国老板只身来到印度，发现当地的妇女可以解决这个问题。
Some of the infected British patients had travelled to India for kidney or bone marrow transplants, dialysis, pregnancy care or burns treatment, while others had undergone cosmetic surgery.
英国患者有些人曾前往印度接受肾脏移植、骨髓移植，透析、孕期保健、烧伤治疗，另一部分则动过整容手术。
Patrick French, a British writer and historian, performs that service in his new book, "India: a Portrait".
帕特里克·弗伦奇，一位英国作家和历史学家，他在其新书《印度：一幅画像》中进行了提醒。
Vedanta Resources confirmed that it would make its first foray into the oil business by acquiring a majority stake in Cairn India, part of Cairn Energy, a British oil explorer.
万达塔资源集团确认其将首次涉足石油行业，收购英国石油开采商凯恩能源旗下凯恩印度公司的大部分股票。
That a British correspondent invited himself to stay, during a weeklong sojourn in Shahabpur to see how village India ticked, was remarkable to Sarju.
一名英国记者在沙哈普尔逗留一周想看看印度的村子什么模样，他不请自来地暂住在萨尔朱家，让萨尔朱受宠若惊。
British officials say in the last three months of last year, there were 13,500 applications from northern India alone, seven times as many as a year earlier.
英国官员表示，去年的最后三个月，仅来自印度北部的申请就多达13,500份，是一年前同期的七倍。
That does not necessarily make them wrong: civil disobedience, against British rule in India, or against segregation in America, has a long, honourable history.
虽属违法，但是他们不一定是错的：在印度抵制英国的统治或在美国反抗种族隔离制度的非暴力不合作主义，有着悠久而光荣的历史。
Historical records of the climate in Asia are lamentable outside India, where the weather-obsessed British collected good data during the 19th and 20th centuries.
令人惋惜的是，亚洲气候的历史纪录为数不多，印度之所以成为例外，是因为19至20世纪当时在那里有热衷气候的英国人，搜集了相当可观的资料。
Historical records of the climate in Asia are lamentable outside India, where the weather-obsessed British collected good data during the 19th and 20th centuries.
令人惋惜的是，亚洲气候的历史纪录为数不多，印度之所以成为例外，是因为19至20世纪当时在那里有热衷气候的英国人，搜集了相当可观的资料。
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