By 1800 more than a thousand steam engines were in use in theBritishIsles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steam engine production until the 1830s.
到了1800年,一千多台蒸汽机在不列颠群岛运行,直到19世纪30年代,英国一直垄断着蒸汽机的生产。
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Public suspicion of politicians—though hardly unique to theBritishIsles—is high.
公众对政客的疑虑很大,尽管这并非英国所独有。
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TheBritishIsles are made up of two large islands-Great Britain (the larger one) and Ireland, and hundreds of small ones.