transcolonial
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Involving several colonies; spanning multiple colonies or across multiple colonial borders.
— As an undergraduate at the University of Alberta, my meditations on the transcolonial logic of the British Empire were sparked by a haunting fragment of Indian statuary on display in Cameron Library: the head of a bodhisattva, presented to the university, a plaque announced, by a British Army major, who had "traded it for rifles in the Kyber Pass."
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Between or beyond colonial boundaries.
— The transcolonial frontier refers to a frontier that lay way beyond any white settlement, beyond the frontier. This type of frontier is represented by the example of the English traders who established a trading post at Port Natal in 1824, and by Coenraad de Buys, an Afrikaner who became the patriarch of a distinct mixed group which came to be known as the Griqua.
词源
From trans- + colonial.
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