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）
BNC.24415 / COCA.10613
柯林斯词典
- 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.- 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。 - 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。 - For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.
我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。
- The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century...
- 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.- Toads are colonising the whole place.
蟾蜍把这整个地方都占为己有。
- Toads are colonising the whole place.
- VERB (植物)大批生长于
When an areais colonized bya type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.- The area was then colonized by scrub.
后来这块地灌木丛生。
- The area was then colonized by scrub.
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 colonise
英英释义
noun
- the act of colonizing
- the British colonization of America