From Italian colonial expeditions, to Cold War meddling, to a recent Ethiopian occupation, international escapades have been a staple of Somalia's last century.

从沦为意大利的殖民地到冷战时期的干涉，再到最近被埃塞俄比亚占领，国际上的越轨行为在索马里上世纪的历史中烙上了深深的烙印。

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The resulting material contained many references to recipes from the civil-war era, and some items look back as far as the colonial period.

因此收集的素材参考了很多内战时期的食谱，一些条目甚至追溯到了殖民时期。

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Like the Portuguese man-of-war (see picture), the new creature is actually a colonial organism, made up of many animals.

就像僧帽水母(Physalia physalis)一样，这种新物种实际上也是一种群体生物，由许多动物组成。

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He said this was because it had not taken part in the 1970s anti-colonial war.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

We went to war with Spain,they said, to free Cuba from its colonial masters...

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Colonial Williamsburg consists of 120 hectares of authentic and restored buildings and landmarks dating to the Revolutionary War and even back further - to the first British settlers who started a plantation and later built the colony.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

Founded as a result of an anti-colonial war against the British, the United States had sought to expand westward by adding new states and citizens that enjoyed equal rights with those that existed.

NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism

It's been called Africa's last colonial war.

BBC: News Online

If colonisation assisted Western hegemony, the end of the colonial era after the second world war set the stage for the rise of China.

ECONOMIST: China's future