“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.

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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.

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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.

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This is also -I keep thinking how British we are; this is New England and this is the United States, a former British colony.

这也是...,我常想,我们真的很"英国",这里称为新英格兰地区,而美国过去也是英国的殖民地

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or any of the countries that used to be in the empire for exceedingly good charity work

或者来自曾经是英国殖民地的做出突出慈善事业的人，

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This is not the case--well, before the British gave Hong Kong back, Hong Kong was a crown colony, it was British territory.

这和Apoikia不是一回事,例如英国归还香港之前,香港是英国的殖民地,是它的领土

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