They settled the land, dispossessing many of its original inhabitants.
他们在此地定居,并逐出了很多原著民。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》The act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property .
利用指定权处理财产的行为。
Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains and on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
你们要将所赶出的国民事奉神的各地方,无论是在高山,在小山,在各青翠树下,都毁坏了。
That can also mean dispossessing local people who, denied ownership of a forest they may have considered their own for centuries, tend to become protagonists in its destruction.
这还可能意味着剥夺当地人的权利。由于几百年来一直视为己有的森林的所有权遭到否定,这些当地人容易变成破坏这些森林的主角。