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

• Within a short time the trading company had supplanted the individual promoter of colonization.
  在很短的时间内，这个贸易公司已经取代了个体殖民推动者。
• Concession was an important sign of the half colonization of modern China.
  租界是近代中国半殖民地化的一个重要标志。
• The colonization of N America by the British and French. colonization of the economy of North Africa
  英国和法国对北美洲的殖民地化.北非经济的殖民地化
• 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。
• 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。
• The colonization of rhizobia on the roots of legumes and nonlegumes has been well documented.
  豆科和非豆科植物根上瘤菌的群集现象曾被很好地证实过。
• The colonization of pathogen to biocontrol bacteria had great effects on leaves but little on branches.
  病原菌的接入对生防菌在叶部的定殖影响较大，对在枝干定殖影响较小。
• Entomologists have tended to underestimate the importance of colonization through dispersal.
  昆虫学家倾向于低估在扩散过程中定居现象的重要性。
• 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。
• 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。