我用“殖民地”这个词是因为我们只有这个词描述我们正讨论的这种扩张行为。

I use the word "colony" because that's what we have for all such establishments of the kind we're talking about.

youdao

每次见到我时不用 可怕的‘复习’这个词的，似乎只有这条狗。

The dog seems to be the only one who doesn't use the dreaded 'R' word every time he sees me.

youdao

So, I use the word colony because that's what we have for all such establishments of the kind we're talking about.

所以我之所以用殖民地这个词,是因为描述这种扩张行为我们只有这个词

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