Human landscapes of lawns, fields, or flowerbeds provide settings with bare soil and a lack of competitors that are perfect habitats for colonization by opportunists.

人工草坪、田野或花圃等人文景观提供了裸露的土壤和缺乏竞争者的环境，是“机会主义者”的完美殖民地。

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English colonial expansion began with the colonization of Newfoundland in 1583.

英国殖民扩张开始于1583年纽芬兰的殖民化。

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English colonial expansion began with the colonization of Newfoundland in 1583. By 1900 Britain had built up a big empire, "on which the sun never set".

英国殖民扩张始于1583年纽芬兰的殖民化，到1900年，英国已经建立了“太阳永不落”的大英帝国。

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Before we get to that, I should say that the Greeks have already, before this period of the polis and the period of colonization which is connected with the rise of the polis, centuries before that the greeks had already spread out from their original settlements.

在我们深究此前,我得先说,在城邦时期和殖民地时期之前,即跟城邦兴起的两个关联时期,希腊人已在数百年前,从最初的家园往外移民

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