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English to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Tourism & Travel | | English term or phrase: long-gone empire | | The flair of our restaurant embodies glorious days gone by: visions of the imperial cavalry parading their coat of the arms throughout the long-gone empire. |
| | | empire which no longer exists | Explanation: long-gone is a way of say long ago, or no longer existing. That is why the text uses the term "vision." Vision is this case means not what you actually see, but what you can imagine. This is the sense of, I had a vision of what it must have been like -- I could imagine what it must have been like -- I could see in my mind what it must have been like.
Empire refers to the period of empire, which is this case refers to the aspect of empire which is luxury and grandeur. |
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