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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With the United States becoming a colonial power in the Pacific after its victory in the Spanish-American War, many American imperialists desired to extend U. S. economic expansion to China.

在美西战争中胜利之后，美国开始成为太平洋地区一只不可忽视的殖民力量，这时许多美国的帝国主义者都非常渴望美国的经济能向中国扩张。

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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