As a novel of race and the effect that the harsh colonial experience had on both oppressor and oppressed, Doris Lessing's "the Grass is Singing", published in 1950, is still unlikely to be bettered.

由多里斯·莱辛于1950年出版的《小草在歌唱》，是一部讲述种族以及残暴殖民经历对压迫者与被压迫者的影响的小说，至今无人能够超越。

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But more recent offerings, most of them memoirs rather than fiction, have drawn from a deep well of the no-less-tormenting post-colonial experience.

但近来不久出版的相关类书籍大都是一些回忆录，远远超过小说，这些作品从真实生活的深井中挖掘出了饱受折磨的前殖民的生活经历。

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Similarly, the French experience in Vietnam and Algeria should have taught American leaders to stay out of colonial independence struggles.

同样，法国在越南和阿尔及利亚的教训应该让美国领导者知道要远离殖民地的独立运动。

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Contrast that with the pedigree and experience of the Colonial Bank CFO, Sarah Moore.

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The central pillar of the policy was import substitution, the belief that India needed to rely on internal markets for development, not international trade - a belief generated by a mixture of socialism and the experience of colonial exploitation.

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But more recent offerings, most of them memoirs rather than fiction, have drawn from a deep well of the no-less-tormenting post-colonial experience.

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