我用“殖民地”这个词是因为我们只有这个词描述我们正讨论的这种扩张行为。

I use the word "colony" because that's what we have for all such establishments of the kind we're talking about.

youdao

如果俄罗斯对于北约和欧盟扩张行为的担忧无关紧要，那么它的成员国也不该表现得那么紧张。

If there is nothing for Moscow to fear in NATO and EU expansion, its members should not act as if there is.

youdao

伊朗必须停止其核扩张行为。

IRAN must be stopped in its tracks now.

youdao

So, I use the word colony because that's what we have for all such establishments of the kind we're talking about.

所以我之所以用殖民地这个词,是因为描述这种扩张行为我们只有这个词

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