If there existed in America a class of citizens whom the legislating majority sought to deprive of exclusive privileges which they had possessed for ages, and to bring down from an elevated station to the level of the ranks of the multitude, it is probable that the minority would be less ready to comply with its laws. But as the United States were colonized by men holding equal rank amongst themselves, there is as yet no natural or permanent source of dissension between the interests of its different inhabitants.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
"Pray don't exert yourself to converse with me out of your own language, senor," interrupted Freeman, in Spanish. "I was just remarking that the Spaniards seem to have degenerated greatly since they colonized Mexico."英文原著 · 《The Golden Fleece》
For the first time in his life Columbus stood on the real soil of the New World. All the islands he had before discovered and colonized were but outlying pieces of America. Now he was really upon the American Continent.英文原著 · 《The True Story of Christopher Columbus》
All of this stuff looks like the garb of a colonizer, and I got a follow-up with the Okafurs.美剧 · 《Shameless》
So you're saying you wouldn't leave me For the chance to be one of the first humans To colonize another planet?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》