BBC中国故事第五集明朝 Part12 英国崛起，中国历史即将改写

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[00:01.49]Many people think that was the height of the Qing Dynasty.很多人都认为那就是清朝的鼎盛时期。
[00:07.70]The population has nearly tripled and the territory doubled.人口增长近三倍，而领土增长了两倍。
[00:11.92]So, I guess, it was, at that time, this was maybe the peace before the storm.因此我想，在那时也许是暴风雨前的宁静。
[00:29.28]Land ahoy!陆地啊！
[00:30.61]It's China!  这是中国！
[00:31.95]It's China! 这是中国！
[00:33.33]But, now, China came into contact with a rising maritime power from a small island 7,000 miles away, off the shore of Europe.然而如今，中国即将接触一个正在崛起的海上强国，那一万多公里外欧洲海岸旁边的一座小岛。
[00:43.58]The British.大英帝国。
[00:55.83]In the story of civilisation, the British couldn't compare with 'China and its 4,000-year-old tradition..... 在文明的故事里，英国无法与中国相提并论，也无法与其四千年的传承相比......
[01:03.39]but they would change the course of Chinese history.但他们却将改写中国的历史。
[01:09.69]This is the Pearl River and this is the great city of Guangzhou, what the Europeans call Canton.这是珠江，这里是大都市广州，当时欧洲人称之为广府。
[01:17.50]And it was here, in the mid 1700s, that the destinies of China and the British began to intertwine.18世纪中期在这里，中英两国的命运开始交织。
[01:28.00]The British were becoming a great power in India and opening up a global trading network for the first time in history.英国将在印度崛起成为强国，并开启历史上首个全球贸易网络。
[01:36.15]They wanted to get in on the Chinese market.他们想进入中国市场。
[01:39.20]They wanted luxuries and silk and textiles, but, above all, they wanted tea.他们想要奢侈品，丝绸和纺织品，但他们最想要的是茶叶。
[01:43.97]MARKET CROWD CHATTERS They'd started to drink tea back in the 17th century, paying for it with hard currency - silver - 他们在17世纪就开始喝茶了，他们购买茶叶用的是硬通货--白银--
[01:54.60]but that soon became a problem for their balance of payments.但这很快将使他们的收支平衡出现问题。
[01:58.79]During the course of the 18th century, tea became a British obsession, their national drink.在18世纪里，茶叶风靡全英国，成为全国性饮品。
[02:06.85]And, by then, they were importing millions of pounds weight of tea every year.那时他们每年都要进口上百斤茶叶。
[02:12.90]It was 10% of the national revenue.购买茶叶的开销就占到国家收入的10%。
[02:15.62]No wonder, then, that people said, "If the China tea trade was "endangered, the British nation was in trouble".难怪有人会说：“如果中国茶叶贸易濒危，那英国也会陷入困境。”
[02:25.95]But the problem was that China was self-sufficient - it didn't need the outside world.但问题是中国可以自给自足--不需要外部世界。

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BBC中国故事 第五集 明朝 Part12 英国崛起，中国历史即将改写

BBC中国故事第五集明朝 Part12 英国崛起，中国历史即将改写