1. 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。
2. There is evidence suggesting that areas along the coast may have contained enough food resources between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago to have made human colonization possible. 有证据表明,在13000到14000年前,沿海地区可能有足够的食物资源,使人类殖民成为可能。
3. The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonization, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between "unsafe" and "extinct". 美国本土语言在欧洲殖民以前就已经存在了,现在美国已经丢失了超过三分之一的本土语言。剩下的192种语言被联合国教科文组织列为介于“不安全”和“灭绝”之间。
4. I don't think it's inconceivable that he's also justifying colonization as well. 我觉得很难相信他也会为殖民化辩护。
5. Formal colonization arrived late in much of the Arab world. 形式的殖民要到后来,才抵达阿拉伯世界的大部分地区。