| 单词 | colonial past |
| 释义 | colonial past The colonial past was 'legally extinct but ... not fully eviscerated'. The Times Literary Supplement The island has changed since he was last there, and the stories he hears from its inhabitants reveal a society struggling with its colonial past. The Times Literary Supplement The city still has faint echoes of its colonial past in the form of many grand, faded buildings with overly fussy facades. The Sun It's partly the vestigial tail of our colonial past wagging away and partly what every nation state tells itself proudly, usually on its birthday. Times, Sunday Times There are dark wooden antiques, silk lampshades, impressionistic paintings, grandmother clocks and a feeling of having stepped into the colonial past. Times, Sunday Times |
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