1.If Rust Belt residents notice the irony of inviting Japanese investors back to revive their former colony, they're not saying it out loud.
通过日本投资商来重振曾经被日本殖民过的土地，即便铁锈地带的居民意识到这里面的讽刺意味，也都避而不谈。
2.France suspended military co-operation with its former colony and reviewed its bilateral aid.
法国已暂停与几内亚这个前法国殖民地的军事合作，并重新评估对其的双边援助。
3.Webster had underrated the amount of social intercourse between England and her former colony.
韦伯斯特低估了英国和其前属殖民地间社会交往的频度。
4.Britain in particular has little credibility in its former colony.
英国在它的前殖民地却没有任何信用可言。
5.Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won theright to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union movesforward.
今晚，是在一个殖民地赢得它自主权200多年之后，我们来到这里，不断前行
6.Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won theright to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting ourunion moves forward.
今夜，在当年的殖民地赢得了决定自己命运的权利200多年以后，让美利坚合众国更加完美的任务又向前推进了一步。
7.With Portugal's economy sickly, a stream of professionals has been heading south to the former colony.
由于葡萄牙经济的萎靡，其职业人士正源源不断地朝这块前殖民地南徙。
8.Only the French feel very strongly about Guinea, a former colony.
而只有法国对其前殖民地几内亚报强硬态度；
9.Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.
英国授权代管德国在东非的前殖民地。
10.After Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942, Britain abandoned its former colony.
当新加坡于1942年被日本人攻陷之后，英国抛弃了这片先前的殖民地。