The way the United States developed or perhaps I should say the colonies, since the land that would become the Eastern United States, there were British colonies there four hundred years ago.

美国发展的方式，或者我该说，美国殖民地发展的方式，因为现在的美国东部所在地在400年前正是英国殖民地。

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From 1617 to 1793 tobacco was the most valuable staple export from the English American mainland colonies and the United States.

从1617年至1793年，烟草是英国在的美洲殖民地和美国最有价值的主打出口产品。

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Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States alone have suffered "colony collapse." Suspected culprits ranged from pesticides to genetically modified food.

自从2006年起，仅在美国就有20%到40%的蜂群遭受到了所谓的“群体毁灭”。当然人们初步猜想“疑犯”可能是杀虫剂或转基因食品等。

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Varroa mites have been causing serious problems in bee colonies in the United States since the late nineteen eighties.

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Troops from the English colonies that would become the United States supported the British army in the war.

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The United States received several of Spain's island colonies as part of the peace agreement.

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When Franklin began his work on this great experiment in 1751, some 25 years prior to the Declaration of Independence, the colonies were anything but united, and they had little interest in becoming so.

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The United Nations does not list them as colonies because they were settled long before Morocco existed in its present shape.

ECONOMIST: Spain in North Africa

Researchers at the University of Texas are warning that the invasive species from South America has the potential to change the ecological balance in the southeastern United States, largely because the ants can wipe out colonies of what's been widely considered the insect villain of the region, the fire ant.

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