Both the colonists and the British increasingly consumed clothing and other household items importedfrom foreign countries by colonial merchants.
殖民地居民和英国人都消费越来越多的殖民地商人从外国进口的服装和其他家庭用品。
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In the late 1960s, when Sri Lanka's flourishing coconut groves were plagued by leaf-mining hispides, a larval parasite importedfrom Singapore brought the pest under control.