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　　Forsale: the world's smallest country with its own flag, stamps,currency and passports。

　　待售：世界上最小的国家，含该国国旗、邮票、货币以及护照。

　　Apply to princemichael of sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if itis just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the north sea。

　　如果你想治理一个属于自己的国家，且不计较它仅仅是由北海中两座混凝土塔楼组成的一个战时城堡，那就去向西兰公国的迈克尔王子申请吧。

　　Built in world war Two as an anti-aircraft base to repel german bombers, the derelict plat-form was taken over 40 years ago by retired army major paddy roy bates who went to live there with his family。

　　该城堡建于二战期间，是个用于抵御德国轰炸机的防空基地。40年前，退休少校帕迪·罗伊·贝茨带着家人住到这里，接管了这个已废弃的高台。

　　Hedeclared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of england and just outside britain's territorial waters, to be the principality of sealand。

　　他将这个距英国东海岸七英里、恰在英国领海外的高台宣布为西兰公国。

　　The self-styled prince roy adopted a flag, chose a national an them and minted silver and goldcoins。

　　这位自封的罗伊王子选定了国旗、国歌还铸造了西兰银币和金币。

　　The family saw off attempts by britain's royal navy to evict them and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of german and dutch businessmen to seize sealand by force。

　　英国皇家海军曾试图驱逐他们，1978年还有一队德国和荷兰商人试图用武力夺取西兰。他们最终都被这家人赶了出去。

　　Roy, 85,now lives in spainand his son michael told bbcradio his family had been approaehed by estate agents withclients "who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy."

　　罗伊现已85岁，住在西班牙。他的儿子迈克尔对英国广播公司电台说，一些客户已通过房地产中介与他们家取得了联系，“这些人想要的不只是一处房产，还有自治权。”