colonization

英 [ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃn]

美 [ˌkɑːlənəˈzeɪʃn]

n.  殖民地的开拓，殖民，殖民地化；移植; 占据；集群（现象）

复数：colonizations　

医学

BNC.24415 / COCA.10613

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 colonise


• VERB 在…开拓殖民地;将…建成殖民地
  If peoplecolonizea foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
  1. The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century...
     英国最早尝试在爱尔兰开拓殖民地是在12世纪。
  2. Liberia was never colonised by the European powers...
     利比里亚从未沦落为欧洲强国的殖民地。
  3. For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.
     我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。
• VERB (动物)移生于，大批繁殖于
  When large numbers of animalscolonizea place, they go to live there and make it their home.
  1. Toads are colonising the whole place.
     蟾蜍把这整个地方都占为己有。
• VERB (植物)大批生长于
  When an areais colonized bya type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.
  1. The area was then colonized by scrub.
     后来这块地灌木丛生。

英英释义

noun

• the act of colonizing
  1. the British colonization of America
  Synonym:colonisationsettlement

双语例句

• These countries took part in the colonization of Africa.
  这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。
• The thesis aims at discovering mechanisms for genre colonization of some genres over commercial advertisements.
  本文通过对一些商业广告的分析发现其他语类对商业广告进行语类侵殖的机制。
• Africa has yet to recover from the ravages of the slave trade or the subsequent era of colonization.
  非洲尚未从奴隶贸易的破坏中，或从其后的殖民时代恢复元气。
• The colonization of America by the British, Dutch and French
  英国人、荷兰人和法国人拓殖美洲
• Briefly, the traditional Asian agrarian structure before European colonization was organized around the village community.
  简言之，亚洲传统的土地所有制结构在欧洲殖民化之前早就在农村村社周围形成了。
• And colonization damages indigenous cultures and exterminates native ecology.
  而殖民毁坏了本土文化，破坏了当地的生态。
• Goias testifies to the occupation and colonization of the lands of central Brazil in the18th and19th centuries.
  戈亚斯城向世人展示了18世纪和19世纪巴西中部被占领时的殖民历史。
• Colonization took place during the Habsburg dynasty.
  开拓殖民地在哈布斯堡王朝就进行过。
• Chapter Two surveys the company colonization in America.
  第二章论述了商业公司对美洲的殖民开发情况。
• Experimental study on biological types during the process of biofilm colonization of biological sand filtration sewage treatment technology;
  本文以滏阳河水为水源，对生物砂滤处理微污染原水生产应用问题进行了理论研究。