Doris Lessing was brought up in Zimbabwe which was then Southern Rhodesia but came to London in 1949.

多丽丝·莱辛在津巴布韦（旧称德西）长大，1949年来到伦敦。

And the town had resisted 217 days stationed on the railway line that runs between the Cape and Rhodesia.

小城沿着在海角和德西之间的铁路线抗拒了217天。

Southern Rhodesia, originally Matabeleland and Mashonaland, later became Zimbabwe and Northern Rhodesia was renamed Zambia.

得西原为马塔贝莱兰和马绍纳兰，后来成为津巴布韦， 北得西更名为赞比。

Documentarians would follow him around in Mozambique as he planned an armed insurrection against the racist white minority government in what was then Rhodesia.

在津巴布韦名为得西时，穆加贝在莫桑比克策划武装反抗当时的种族主义白人少数政府，这个时期的穆加贝是纪录片导演想跟拍的对象。

Whilst his mining ventures had proved highly lucrative, Rhodesia had been an expensive misadventure, as had his infrastructural investments.

虽然事实证明他的采矿事业利润丰，得西却是一场代价高昂的灾难，他的基础设施投资也是如此。

The Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing has died at the age of 94. She grew up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe before moving to London.

诺贝尔获奖作家多丽丝·莱辛去世，享年94岁。她在德西也就是如今的津巴布韦长大，后来移居伦敦。

Rhodes built a sprawling home in  Bulawayo, one of the first permanent buildings built in Rhodesia and which is now used as the  Bulawayo residence for the President of Zimbabwe.

德在布拉瓦约建造了一座庞大的住宅，这是德西最早建造的永久性建筑之一，现在用作津巴布韦总统的布拉瓦约官邸。

By the mid-1960s Britain would relinquish much of its control of its territories in regions like Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Rhodesia, many of which new nations in turn became members of the Commonwealth.

到 20 世纪 60 年代中期，英国将放弃对肯尼、乌干达、尼日利和得西等地区大部分领土的控制，其中许多新国家随后成为英联邦成员。