the dense timber was shipped around the world and used for such empire-building projects as lining the suez canal and, after world war ii, for rebuilding london's tilbury docks.

密纹木材被运往全世界，用于修筑苏伊士运河这样的帝王建筑项目，以及在二战以后，用于建设伦敦的蒂尔伯里码头。

it was so barren and isolated that during the following three centuries of assiduous empire-building neither the portuguese nor any other nation bothered to claim it.

阿森松岛孤悬于海外，又是如此的贫瘠，在随后的三个世纪内，尽管各大国忙于扩张疆土，但无论是葡萄牙还是其他国家都不屑于认领这个岛屿。

managers of newly privatised industries tend to lay off workers as their focus shifts from empire-building to profit maximisation.

新型私有工业的经理们将注意力从帝国大厦转移到了利润最大化，便开始裁员来降低成本。

sadly for the telecoms firms, bottom-fishing for distressed assets rarely worked, and investors vetoed empire-building deals involving mature assets that yielded few cost synergies.

可悲的电信公司，对那些贬值的资产抄底很少奏效，而投资者否决涉及到成熟资产的扩张交易，它们几乎不产生协同成本。

the victorian briton regarded empire-building english food as superb and that of france or italy as dangerous, disgusting or both. today that situation has largely reversed.

维多利亚时代的英国人认为扩张疆域的英国的食物乃为上乘，法国及意大利食品皆为下等，而今日形势却截然相反。

the french response to deutsche bahn’s empire-building has been to try to turn sncf into another european powerhouse, says chris jackson of railway gazette international.

国际铁路公报的chrisjackson说。德国联邦铁路公司正在建立自己的帝国大厦，对此法国方面做出的反应则是将sncf变成另一巨擘。