英语翻译The commonwealth of Nations is an association of indepen

英语翻译
The commonwealth of Nations is an association of independent countries and othere political units that had lived under under British law and government.中units是集合的意思?lived是啥意思?语句通顺的给分
Britain has,for centuries,been slowly tilting with the North-west slowly rising and the South-east slowly sinking.

1.英联邦是由一些独立国家和其他曾经受英国法律管辖和英国政府管理的政治单元所组成的.
Unit单位,political unit政治单位
Lived,表示生存,意思是生存在英国的法律和统治之下,此处应为意译,表示接受管辖和统治.
2.几个世纪以来,英国国土一直缓慢倾斜—西北部缓缓升高,而东南部则缓缓下沉.