“我本该派他去英国或者一个前英国殖民地担任大使的。”他说道。
"I should have sent him as ambassador to Great Britain or maybe a former British colony," he said.
毛里求斯作为英国殖民地已有近200年的历史，除了在行政领域和教学领域，岛上从未真正使用过英语。
Mauritius was a British colony for almost 200 years, excepting for the domains of administration and teaching, the English language was never really spoken on the island.
1995年，尼日利亚被这个主要由54个前英国殖民地国家组成的团体暂时取消了成员国资格，此前尼日利亚处决了9名少数民族人权活动人士，其中包括作家肯·萨罗-维瓦。
Nigeria was suspended from the 54-nation group of mainly former British colonies in 1995 after it executed nine minority rights activists, including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.
美国发展的方式，或者我该说，美国殖民地发展的方式，因为现在的美国东部所在地在400年前正是英国殖民地。
The way the United States developed or perhaps I should say the colonies, since the land that would become the Eastern United States, there were British colonies there four hundred years ago.
孩子，从前，这里是英国殖民地。
马来西亚是前英国殖民地，英语广为言之。
Malaysia is a former British colony and English is widely spoken.
马萨诸塞州当时是英国殖民地。
它的成立为英国殖民地于1884年。
实际上，该指标是将中国放在原英国殖民地印度之前的最新排名。
Indeed, the index is the latest to grade China above the former British colony of India.
如果你想从这个角度解释的话，这种深绿色调可以算是英国殖民地的副产品吧！
If you like to interpret it that way, then the deep green is very much a British colonial byproduct.
贝里斯原名英属宏都拉斯，是英国殖民地，也是中美洲唯一英语系国家。
The area first named the british honduras was colonized by the british which explains why it is the only english-speaking country in central america .
事实上我们可以这样说，作为英国殖民地的美国是从英国演变而来的一种新形态。
In fact, it could be said that America, a British colony, is a sort of Britain metamorphosed into new shape.
限制其竞争对手进入英国殖民地及限制殖民地出口的政策或许值得人们更多的关注。
Policies limiting rivals' access to British colonies, and industrial exports from those colonies, might also be worth more attention.
由投资者创立的维吉尼亚公司，发起并且资助了1607年5月在詹姆斯敦成立的英国殖民地。
The Virginia Company, founded by investors, had financed and sponsored the English colony founded at Jamestown in May 1607.
马耳他的大部分小城一般都有两个乐队俱乐部，俱乐部的产生始于马耳他沦为英国殖民地时期。
Towns and villages in Malta normally have two band club which know their origin during the British colonial times.
进口税占了茶价的一半，因为茶叶是从英国殖民地印度进口的，并由英国船只运输，是富人喝的。
As much as half the price of tea represented import duties, which had been set high because tea was imported from the British colony of India, carried in British ships, and drunk by the rich.
这个世界上数一数二的中国美人在英格兰长大的事实反而让张曼玉更能代表这块前英国殖民地人民的矛盾感情。
That one of the world's leading Chinese beauties was actually raised in England only makes Cheung more emblematic of the ex-colony's cross-purpose passions.
史密森国家自然历史博物馆和考古学家们表示，英国殖民地一个少女的骨头显示她的肉是被人吃掉的。
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and archaeologists say the bones of a girl at the English settlement show she was cannibalized.
1963年，当先前的英国殖民地新加坡，还有位于婆罗洲北海岸的东马来国家沙巴和砂劳越加入联盟后，马来西亚诞生了。
Malaysia was formed in 1963 when the former British colonies of Singapore and the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo joined the Federation.
塞拉利昂以前是英国殖民地，一块典型的不成功非洲地域，被誉为“血腥石头”的若干年内战已经把国家撕为两半。
A former British colony, Sierra Leone was a classic failed African state: years of civil war fuelled by "blood diamonds" had ripped the country apart.
东南亚英语是一种英语变体，正如名称所示，它是东南亚国家和地区的英语，是该地区的前英国殖民地的第二语言。
The English of Southeast Asia is a variety of English which is used in the Southeast countries or areas as the second language of former English colony.
最后，约有8万人退出新共和国而到了英国、位于加勒比海的英国殖民地、尤其是到了加拿大，他们在加拿大的影响持续至今。
In the end, some 80,000 quit the new republic for Britain, the British colonies in the Caribbean and especially for Canada, where their influence has been lasting.
最后，约有8万人退出新共和国而到了英国、位于加勒比海的英国殖民地、尤其是到了加拿大，他们在加拿大的影响持续至今。
In the end, some 80, 000 quit the new republic for Britain, the British colonies in the Caribbean and especially for Canada, where their influence has been lasting.
到1900年英国已建立了“日不落”的大英帝国，包括受保护国、英国殖民地、势力范围和自治领，占世界人口与面积的25%。
It consisted of a vast number of protectorates, Crown colonies, spheres of influence, and self-governing dominions. It included 25% of the world's population and area.
证据开示制度源自英国，经由英国殖民地者在北美地区对其传统的沿袭，使得证据开示制度在后来成立的美国许多州扎下根来。
Discovery system stemmed from England, then its tradition was followed by the colonists in northern America, which made discovery system rooted in many states of U.
历史学家还记载了在北美定居的欧洲人中流行的其他感恩仪式，这其中就有弗吉尼亚州伯克利种植园的英国殖民地居民经常举行的一种仪式。
Historians have also recorded other ceremonies of thanks among European settlers in North America, including British colonists in Berkeley Plantation, Virginia.
英国第一次企图把爱尔兰变成殖民地是在12世纪。
The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century.
英国第一次企图把爱尔兰变成殖民地是在12世纪。
The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century.
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