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To decolonize a place is to stop it being a colony and let it stand as its own country. Governments decolonize; it is a political act, often slow, with laws, talks, and a change of who holds power. Though actually, the same verb is now used for ideas and institutions as well. People say they want to decolonize a curriculum, a museum, or even their own thinking — meaning they want to take out habits, stories, and rules that came from colonial rule. Some speakers keep the word for countries only; others stretch it on purpose. Both uses are real. They are not the same job, so listen for what is being decolonized: a territory, or a way of seeing.
去殖民、使（前殖民地）獨立；也有人說要「去殖民化」課程或博物館，指去掉殖民視角
組成From de- (undo, reverse) + colonize (to make a place into a colony).
同家族的字
- colonizethe verb being reversed
- colonythe place this is about
- colonizationthe process being undone
- decolonizationthe noun for the same process
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
decolonizeverb/diːˈkɒlənaɪz/
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To release from the status of colony; to allow a colony to become independent.
- A paternal government would attempt to decolonize American literature, by forbidding the re-publication of foreign works, and offering premiums to those of home production.
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human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceTo reverse the colonization of, i.e. to grant back autonomy to a group.
- Across Ukraine, officials are starting projects to, as they say, “decolonize” their cities. Streets and subway stops whose names evoke the history of the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union are under scrutiny by a population eager to rid itself of traces of the nation that invaded in late February.
- The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to “decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。