It comes from a country, the United Kingdom, which was quite an expansive, trading, colonial power in the past and all these have brought all sorts of other new words into the language.

它来自一个英国这个国家，它在过去是一个十分具有扩张性的、贸易和殖民大国，所有这些给英语注入了各种各样的新鲜词汇。

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Spain used to be a major colonial power.

西班牙以往是个殖民强国。

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Britain was once a major colonial power.

英国曾是一个殖民大国。

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He says the idea came from England, America's former colonial power.

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The United Nations,African Union, the United States and former colonial power France have all criticized President Tandja's move to tighten his grip on power.

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But he forgave the former colonial power when a British man gave him a bicycle.

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He suggested Canada would be outsourcing its foreign policy to the former colonial power.

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Britain, the former colonial power, has also been Sierra Leone's closest ally in recent years.

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