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Though the long-colonised Eastern States had a sex ratio of one man to one woman, or thereabouts, in the rest of the country the old adage "go west, young man" had resulted in a surplus of males.

尽管长期受殖民统治的东部各州的男女性别比率是1：1，或在此左右，但是在受“年轻人，去西部”传统格言的影响下，国内其他州却呈现出男士盈余的局面。

There are now three planets outside the system, known as exoplanets, which experts believe could potentially be colonised by future generations.

目前太阳系外有三颗“系外行星”被专家认为人类未来可能移居。

Having confirmed that Malagasy and Indonesian DNA separated about 1200 years ago, which is statistically close to the date archaeologists suggest Madagascar was colonised, the team then asked their data how many women, drawn at random from the Malay Archipelago of that period,

由于已确定马达加斯加人和印尼人的DNA是在约1200年前分开的——这与考古学家们统计得出的马达加斯加成为殖民地的时间相近，接着Cox博士带领的小组就开始对随机抽取的那一时期的数据进行女性人数的解析，

Possibly, then, Madagascar was colonised by an errant slave ship.

那马达加斯加岛就可能是一艘迷途的奴隶商船的殖民地了。

Liberia was never colonised by the European powers

利比里亚从未沦落为欧洲强国的殖民地。

Liberia was never colonised by the European powers.

利比里亚从未沦落为欧洲强国的殖民地。

There is, for instance, no trace of the Canary Islands, which had been colonised in 1402.

例如，地图上丝毫没有加那利群岛的影子，尽管该群岛早在1402年就已是欧洲殖民地。