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单词 colonist
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Examples from literature
  • Mars One, a private Dutch company, proposes to set up a colony on Mars by 2023, sending in new ships of four colonists every two years.
  • Most of the colonists had to leave the island.
  • The colonists did not want to pay the tax, so they decided to become free from Britain.
  • Although it had now become evident that a rupture was inevitable, the colonists viewed the snapping of the ties which bound them to Spain with reluctance and unease.
  • He saw walls covered with carvings, depicting old legends about the first colonists.
  • Some of the colonists refused to leave, remained, and thus became British subjects.
  • The white colonists take it for granted that industry is to thrive.
  • They were both young men—colonists by birth.

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colonist
He points out, for example, how the colonists adapted the militia institution over time.
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The authors show how the advance of thecolonisteconomy led to a withdrawal of indigenous groups into peripheral areas in the region.
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Despite the challenges, and the competitive, critical atmosphere in which they found themselves, some young colonists became thoroughly integrated.
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However, more importantly, colonists eventually gained title to the land.
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Figure 4 suggests three different groups of colonists.
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For their part, the colonists saw no need to pay for additional protection.
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The bulk of the pamphlet sets out a model for small hold agriculture which would be the activity of the inward directed colonists.
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With the acquisition of independence by many of these countries, the land previously owned by the colonists was distributed by the new governments.
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British politicians felt emboldened by a wider public which, when it considered distant colonists at all, often saw them as ungrateful recipients of metropolitan protection.
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This would be tantamount to claiming that evolution is goaloriented and the colonists had really planned to be different linguistically.
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More discussion of the colonists' revolts, for example, would have been welcome.
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The lure of rubber wealth far outweighed official efforts to attract colonists.
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During the first half of the 17th century they were followed by some further colonists, mainly relatives of the pioneers.
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When colonists first arrived in the new world, they found plenty of land an ocean away from the old world's stifling seigniorial rights.
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The colonists, no matter how inept, were the cause of the strife that every member of the community faced.
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