Mr Hopp is quite unlike Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch who has spent hundreds of millions of pounds on Chelsea, an English football club.

霍普先生与俄罗斯寡头罗曼·阿布拉莫维奇明显不同，后者将数百万英镑砸在了英国俱乐部切尔西身上。

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Hercules is an English Mastiff and has a 38 inch neck and weighs 282 pounds.

大力士是一只英国獒，颈部有38英寸，重量达到282磅。

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The biggest contested divorce settlement in English history was the 48 million pounds (about $90 million at the time) insurance tycoon John Charman was ordered to pay his ex-wife in 2006.

英国历史上最高的离婚费是保险大亨约翰在2006年付给他前妻的4800万英镑。

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Big-time Irish gamblers such as Istabraq's owner JP McManus and Barney Curley, have taken hundreds of thousands of English pounds out of the betting ring.

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Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.

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Manchester City is the latest rags to riches story, where billionaire Sheikh Mansour bought the team in 2008 and has since spent over 300 million pounds on players to get the club its first ever English Premier League title in 2012.

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