People in any country will not want their homeland to be a dependent colonial state.

任何国家的人民都不希望自己的祖国变成殖民者的附属国。

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Swathes of the tribal areas are largely ungoverned, constituting less a failed state than a place where the state, from British colonial days to the present, has hardly even tried.

许多部落地区基本上都是无人治理的，从而自英国殖民时代迄今，这里成了一个失败国家，情况不过比甚至几乎没有试过去治理要略好一点。

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The state abounds in colonial architecture.

国家比比皆是在殖民时期的建筑风格。

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Capital punishment has existed in the state since its colonial days.

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His first name commemorates an ancestor, John Endicott, who was the state's first colonial governor.

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Havana, would two million people, and more that 100, 000 old colonial houses, some of them in poor physical state would have been devastated by this hurricane.

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