殖民地

He has been immensely successful and has created a nation with a colonised mind.

他们早已取得了巨大的成功，并创造了一片殖民地。

The territories colonised by british people has been independent, but most of them claim themselves as member of commonwealth.

在一国两制面前更没冲突）英国的殖民地都已经独立了，但是大多数都还是认同自己作为英联邦的一员，英国文化上的影响仍然存在。

Few outsiders realise that this is one of only four Muslim countries that were never colonised by Europe, and the only one never invaded.

但很少有人意识到它是四个未曾成为欧洲殖民地的国家之一，而且是唯一一个从未遭到外敌入侵的国家。

Both were colonised by small European seafaring nations before gaining independence within 50 years of each other.

两国赢得独立的年份，前后不超过50年，之前，皆是欧洲航海小国的殖民地。

One of the great ironies of colonial history is the way in which colonised people adopted some of the very prejudices that justified colonial rule.

殖民史上令人讽刺的一点，是殖民地的人们对那些为殖民统治辩护的、极具偏颇意味的观点的接纳方式。

Japan led the way in the late 19th century in realising the need to learn from the West if it was to avoid being colonised by it.

十九世纪晚期，日本首先意识到需要向西方借鉴学习。而且，日本也只有这样才能避免沦为西方的殖民地。

Late last year the South African president, Thabo Mbeki, told students that Africa needs to be on its guard against allowing a "colonial relationship" to develop with Beijing, although he quickly added that he did not think that was China's motive. In any case, it is a long way from the plunder of the European colonisers or the destruction wrought by the use of parts of Africa as a cold war battlefield by the superpowers.

去年，南非总统母贝基对一些学生说，&同北京发展关系的同时，非洲需要同新型殖民式贸易关系做斗争，要保卫非洲，&虽然后来他又很快的补充说到，&这个并不是北京的本意，无论如何，非洲从作为一个被掠夺的殖民地到冷战期间作为超级大国的战场，是一段很长的路，（我们不希望再延续这条路）&。

"The challenge is that you could then indeed develop a relationship between China and the African continent which in reality isn't different from the relationship that developed between Africa and the former colonising powers," Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, told the FT last year.

南非总统塔博·姆贝基去年告诉英国《金融时报》：&挑战在于，你确实可以发展中国与非洲大陆的关系，但实际上，它与非洲和前殖民地强权形成的关系并无两样。&

Life was hard for the early colonists in the United States.

对早期到美国来的殖民地开拓者来说生活是艰苦的。

When the colonists of England settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean.

英国的殖民地的时候，他们在美国定居的文化和他们同行飞越大西洋。

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。