One retort would surely be that even ex-colonial powers can learn from their mistakes.

这肯定会引起另一位外交官的反驳——即使身处前殖民超级大国的地位，也应该从过去的错误中吸取教训。

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And... a lot of, a lot of the role was played by the colonial powers within the conflict.

然后呢。，有很多事取决于殖民力量，在冲突中起的作用。

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His formative twenties and thirties were spent fighting the Dutch colonial powers in the Javanese jungle.

他的整个20岁和30岁就是在爪哇丛林和荷兰殖民者作战。

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And... a lot of, a lot of the role was played by the colonial powers within the conflict.

然后呢。,有很多事取决于殖民力量,在冲突中起的作用。

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Europe's ex-colonial powers are ill-placed to lecture China about its behaviour in Africa, they say.

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These were men and women who had never governed, who were colonial subjects while the colonial powers led everything.

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Other colonial powers vied for control of the increasingly-prosperous sugar-producing island, and it came under brief periods of English rule in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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