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。

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Science fiction writers have long dreamed that humans might one day quit the earth to colonize other planets.

科幻小说作家们长期以来一直梦想着人类有一天可以离开地球移居到其它星球上。

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First to colonize the barren land are the lowly lichens, surviving on bare rock.

贫瘠的土地上首先长满了地衣这种低等植物，它们在裸露的岩石上生存。

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You want to live here, you want to colonize. You want to make this part of your empire.

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It is also interesting to notice who does not colonize at this early period and the answer is all the most famous cities of Greece in the Classical Period.

另一个有意思的问题是,谁在早期并不殖民,答案是,古希腊时期的所有名城

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They plan to colonize our planet, erase its pesky inhabitants, and harvest the H?

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The Danes, Dutch and Brits sent their fleets and financiers to colonize the world.

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At present it has no need to colonize Siberia purely for agriculture, since Russia has plenty of arable land in more hospitable climates.

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