colony---n.殖民地；(某一类人的)聚居地；聚居区
By 1830 the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent nations.
colonial---adj.殖民地的；殖民主义的；(建筑或家具)具有英属殖民地时期特色的；美洲殖民地时期的
According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was "so much importance attached to intellectual pursuits."
comply---v.服从；遵守
After all(毕竟), it has an ad business too, which it says will comply with DNT requests, though it is still working out how.
complicate---v.使难以理解；使复杂化
complicated---adj.复杂的；难懂的；难处理的
But in the everyday practice of science, discovery frequently follows an ambiguous and complicated route.
contact---n.(尤指经常性的)联系；联络 v.联系；联络
contest---n.竞赛；比赛；（权力或控制权的）争夺；竞争 v.争取赢得（选举、比赛等）；角逐；争辩；对...提出异议
In Arizona v. United States, the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.
in contact with---和...联系；与...相关
However, the Justices said that Arizona police would be allowed to verify the legal status of people who come in contact with law enforcement.
historian---n.历史学家
But recently, many historians have begun to focus on the role slavery played in the lives of the founding generation(开国元勋).
inherit---v.继承（金钱或财产）；经遗传获得（特征、特质等）
Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father's line or mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down only from mothers.
inherent---adj.固有的；内在的；生来就有的
mantains the inherent American thinking model.
comply with(与..相一致) the American belief system.
privilege---n.特权；优待 v.给予...特权；特免
The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia, who offered an even more robust(强烈地) defense of state privileges going back to the Alien(客籍法) and Sedition(叛乱) Acts.
privileged---adj.享有特权的；特殊的
On the overturned provisions the majority held(认为) the congress had deliberately "occupied the feld" and Arizona had thus intruded on the federal's privileged powers.
purchase---v.买，购买 n.购买的物品
More than 60000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions(处方) last year, according to Doug Fog, cheif operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits(套装).
random---adj.随机的；随意的；任意的 n.随机；随意
description---n.描述；形容；叙述；说明；种类；类型
This description even fits the majority of eminent(杰出的) scholars, Being learned in some branch(分支) of human knowledge is one thing, living in "public and illustratrious(卓越的) thoughts," as Emerson would say, "is something else."