殖民

In 1768 Franklin visited England as postmaster general and there he heard a curious complaint by Colonial board of Customs: Why did it take British mail ships which were called packets couple of weeks longer to reach New York from England then it took an average merchant ship to reach Newport, Rhode Islanddespite merchants ships leaving Londonhaving to sail down Thames and then the length of the English channelbefore they sailed across Atlantic, while the packets left from Falmouthin Cornwallright on the ocean's doorstep.

富兰克林在1768年访问英国邮政和有他听到一个奇怪的投诉由殖民局海关：为什么采取英国邮件的船舶，被称为包几个星期的时间来达到纽约英格兰那么它的平均商船来达到罗得岛新港尽管商家船舶离开伦敦后，驶向了泰晤士，然后长度的英吉利海峡，然后在大西洋航行，而包遗留法尔茅斯康沃尔有权对海洋的家门口。

The potpourri is enriched further with the influence of the Thai, British and Portuguese cultures.

邻国泰国以及，英国和葡萄牙殖民文化更加地丰富了马来西亚的风土民情。

These new English settlers looked and acted very differently from Powhatan's tribe.

这些新来的英国殖民在外观及行为上都不同於波瓦坦部落。

In 1608, Pocahontas helped negotiate the return of Powhatan prisoners held by the colonists. Pocahontas was only about 12 years old when she did this!

1608年时，通过波卡洪塔斯的协调，殖民同意释放波瓦坦囚犯，而当时的她才12岁大！

The Jamestown Settlement is a re-created version of the colony and a nearby Powhatan Indian village .

我的翻译是，詹姆士镇岛殖民地再现了当时殖民时期的风貌，附近是Powhatan印第安人部落。

The Algonquian chief, Powhatan, at first allowed the visitors to settle, build, and farm in his territory, but as more and more came, he grew tired of the colonists' expansion on his land.

亚拉冈昆的酋长包华德，起初准许造访者在他的领土上，殖民、建设、开垦，但愈来愈多的殖民者前来，他开始厌烦殖民者在他土地上无限扩张。

It's just at that time, the colonist persuaded me to become a Christian, and then I received baptism and changed my name to Rebecca. This April, I married Jone Rolfe, our wedding ceremony was held in the church in Jamestown. A year later, we had a son named Thomas Rolfe. The British government hoped my marriage could help to end the war between Powhatan and the colonists, but I believe belief change could help to persuade them to become Christian.

也就是在这段时间，殖民者说服我改信基督教，我因此接受洗礼改名为蕾贝卡今年4月，我嫁给了两人于詹姆斯敦的教堂举行婚礼，一年后生有一子，取名为托马斯·罗尔夫英国方面希望这段婚姻有助于结束波瓦坦人及殖民之间的战争，而我改变信仰能有助于说服剩馀族人一起改信基督教。

The survivors of the pre-Columbian empires furnished a ready-made free labor pool, which was accustomed to organized labor for tribute to a central authority.

而哥伦布以前的美洲王室的幸存者为了适应向殖民当局进贡有组织的劳动，提供了一个现成的自由劳动力市场？？？

The book offers an original interpretation of both Columbus's discovery of America and the Spaniards' subsequent conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean.

该书提供了一个既美国哥伦布的发现，西班牙人'后来征服，殖民原来的解释，以及前哥伦布时期的文化在墨西哥和加勒比地区的破坏。

The town's pre-Hispanic pyramid, crowned today by a church, may have been built in reverence to El Popo; its ancient name, Tlachihualt閜etl, means 'man-made mountain.'"—From "Popocat閜etl, January 1999, National Geographic magazine

该城西班牙殖民时代之前的金字塔顶上修建了一座教堂，可能是用来敬拜El Popo的；它古时的名字，Tlachihualt閜etl，表示"人造的山峰"

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。