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.

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。

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A tiny island nation in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar, Mauritius is far and away the highest-ranking nation of Sub-Saharan Africa; Djibouti comes second with a score of 60.5.

毛里求斯只是印度洋中，马达加斯加东面的一个小小岛国，但在撒哈拉以南非洲国家中排名遥遥领先；排名第二的吉布提只有60.5分。

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The fearless bird lived on the island of Mauritius until humans came along in the 1600s with their tree-felling tendencies and egg-eating pets and livestock.

这种无所畏惧的鸟类原本生活在毛里求斯岛，人类于17世纪到达该地，并带来了伐树风潮及喜食鸟蛋的宠物和家畜，最终导致了渡渡鸟的消失。

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Mr Cuttaree is the foreign and trade minister of Mauritius, a small island off the coast of southern Africa.

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Over 250 cultural stakeholders participated in the 8 workshops that took place around Mauritius and on the island of Rodrigues.

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For three decades after African countries threw off their colonial shackles, not a single one (bar the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius) peacefully ousted a government or president at the ballot box.

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