粗略估计,尼日利亚是大不列颠的三倍大。
As a rough estimate, Nigeria is three times the size of Great Britain.
伦敦,大不列颠的首都,位于英格兰东南部,位于泰晤士河两岸。
London, the capital of Great Britain, SE England, is on both sides of the Thames River.
地震带位于太平洋的大不列颠哥伦比亚省、华盛顿州、俄勒冈州和北加州沿海的北美板块,近700英里长。
Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.
最近在互联网上进行的一项调查中,超过一半的人错误地回答了以下问题:大不列颠由多少个国家组成?世界上最大的沙漠是什么?
More than half of the people in a recent survey on the Internet answered these questions incorrectly: How many countries make up Great Britain? What is the world's largest desert?
小岛上的海鹦群落是大不列颠岛南部地区最大的。
The puffin community on the island is the largest in the southern part of the island.
奥林匹克级邮轮包括奥林匹克号、大不列颠号和泰坦尼克号。
The Olympic class included the Olympic, the Britannic and the Titanic.
奥林匹克号轮船率先于1910年下水,紧接着是1911年的泰坦尼克号,最后是1914年的大不列颠号。
The Olympic launched first in 1910, followed by the Titanic in 1911, and lastly the Britannic in 1914.
更多近期的地质研究证明了13000年前的冰川消退现象和整个加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省主要沿海地区内无冰区的存在。
More recent geologic studies documented deglaciation and the existence of ice-free areas throughout major coastal areas of British Columbia, Canada, by 13,000 years ago.
威尔士位于大不列颠的西部。
大不列颠哥伦比亚省也有类似情况出现。
官方正式名称:大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国。
Official name: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士组成大不列颠岛国。
England, Scotland and Wales compose the island of Great Britain.
1760年的10月25日,乔治三世成为大不列颠的国王。
在大不列颠王国创立过程中,哥伦布交换扮演的的角色更直接。
Much more direct was the role of the Columbian Exchange in the creation of Great Britain.
加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华市上空模仿海胆性状的烟花。
Fireworks over Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, mimic a sea urchin.
大不列颠王国的时代已经过去,但是英军仍然奔波沙场,维护世界和平。
Britain no longer has an empire, but it still does a lot of fighting and keeping the peace.
MET的首席科学家,大不列颠的天气预报代理人茱莉亚。斯灵戈也同意。
Julia Slingo, chief scientist at MET, Great Britain's weather-forecasting agency, agrees.
占了世界四分之一的大不列颠有任何敌人能使它召集这么多的海军和陆军吗?
Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
随着气候变化加剧一些趋势以及中和其他因素,这将重塑大不列颠和其土地。
As climate change reinforces some trends and counteracts others it will reshape Britain and its landscapes.
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。
The region was annexed by the British Empire and stayed part of British India until 1947.
对比之下,西班牙人为1,615小时,和大不列颠和葡萄牙相差无几。
The Spanish, by comparison, worked 1,615 hours, roughly in line with the British and Portuguese.
脱离大不列颠并不是特别受苏格兰人欢迎,但Salmond先生却是。
Seceding from Britain is not especially popular in Scotland but Mr Salmond is.
这个有着鲜艳紫色棘突的海胆来自大不列颠哥伦比亚——上帝的口袋海洋省立公园。
The vivid purple spines of this sea urchin from God's Pocket Marine Provincial Park, British Columbia, help it move along the seafloor, as do hydraulically operated tube feet.
若读英国的报纸,你会得出这样一个结论:大不列颠即将被猪流感压倒了。
LOOK at Britain's press, and you would conclude that the place is about to be overwhelmed by swine flu.
要问英国人对自己工作的满意度,这些大不列颠人也就仅仅达到了欧盟平均水平而已。
When asked whether they are satisfied with their jobs, the British are on the EU average.
不列颠群岛由两个大岛-大不列颠岛(较大的一个)和爱尔兰岛,及成千上万个小岛组成。
The British Isles are made up of two large islands-Great Britain (the larger one) and Ireland, and hundreds of small ones.
荣誉依然接踵而来:1996年她被提名为诺贝尔文学奖以及大不列颠小说作家奖候选人。
And the honors keep on coming: she was on the list of nominees for the Nobel Prize for Literature and Britain's Writer's Guild Award for Fiction in 1996.
那是一块不名誉的奖章。受大不列颠博物馆的委托创作并在2009年首次展出。
It's a medal of dishonour, commissioned by and first shown at the British Museum in 2009.
那是一块不名誉的奖章。受大不列颠博物馆的委托创作并在2009年首次展出。
It's a medal of dishonour, commissioned by and first shown at the British Museum in 2009.
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