It appears that in the 21st century, the sun continues to never set on the French empire.

看来在 21 世纪，法兰西帝国的太阳永远不会落下。

Segment 28b: A Farewell To Empires, treats the postwar fall of the French and British empires, and the resulting chaos.

28段第二部分，告别帝国，我们将分析法国和英国帝国在战后的衰亡以及随之而来的混乱。

What remains are the final vestiges of the ancient French colonial empire that simply never desired independence for themselves and have thus remained a part of 21st-century France.

遗留下来的是古代法国殖民帝国的最后残余，这些地区从来没有想过要自己独立，因此仍然是 21 世纪法国的一部分。

Just for fun, here are some things that would happen if we added in all of the territory that the French colonial empire once controlled in North America and the Caribbean.

只是为了好玩，如果我们把法国殖民帝国曾经在北美和加勒比地区控制的所有领土加进去，会出现这样一些情况。

New France-It refers to the French empire in North America from 1608 to1763, governing two continental river systems, the St.Lawrence and the Mississippi.

新法兰西——指1608年至1763年间在北美的法兰西帝国，管辖圣劳伦斯河和密西西比河两大大陆河流系统。

In the corner of the room was an empty bed, a narrow French Empire bed with curling head and foot, a bed which Ellen had brought from Savannah.

房间的一个角落里还摆着一张空床，一张法兰西帝国式的单人床，床头和床腿是螺旋形，那是爱伦从萨凡纳带来的。

First, let's give back to France all of the territories that the French Empire controlled at her territorial peak in 1921, just after victory in the First World War.

首先，让我们把法兰西帝国在 1921 年控制最多领土时的所有领土交还给法国，也就是在第一次世界大战胜利后。

Back in 1960 when the French empire still spanned much more of the globe, France became the fourth country to successfully test and detonate a nuclear weapon after the United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.

早在 1960 年，当法兰西帝国的领土仍然横跨全球时，法国就成为了继美国、苏联和英国之后第四个成功试验并引爆核武器的国家。

After World War One, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the British and French Empires carved up the Middle East, with the British taking control of a region it called the British Mandate for Palestine.

第一次世界大战后，奥斯曼帝国崩溃，英法帝国瓜分了中东，英国控制了一个被称为“英国对巴勒斯坦委任统治”的地区。

With this and the other new western territories, the French Empire's economy now stands at nearly nine-point two trillion dollars, surging far ahead of Germany and Japan but still remaining beneath China and the United States.

加上这块领土和其他新的西部领土，法兰西帝国的经济现在达到了近 9.2 万亿美元，远远超过了德国和日本，但仍低于中国和美国。

Now Vietnam is the single largest country inside of the Empire's borders, taking up 19% of the entire population and being home to about the same number of people as lived across the entire French Empire in 1921.

现在，越南是帝国边界内最大的国家，占整个帝国人口的 19%，大约相当于 1921 年整个法兰西帝国的人口数量。

His grandfather had served as a military officer for the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars and had risen to the rank of sergeant, before marrying Tesla's grandmother Ana Kalinic, the daughter of a respected colonel.

他的祖父曾在拿破仑战争期间担任法兰西帝国的军官, 并升为中士, 之后与特斯拉的祖母安娜·卡利尼克结婚, 她是受人尊敬的上校的女儿。