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

• Colonization took place during the Habsburg dynasty.
  开拓殖民地在哈布斯堡王朝就进行过。
• 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。
• The information of this research ranged from the period between Japanese colonization and postwar up to now.
  研究资料涵盖日殖时期前后与战后至今的发展史。
• 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。
• 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。
• Gastric bacteria colonization has been proved to play a significant role in the development of nosocomial pneumonia recently.
  近来一些研究表明，胃腔定植菌在院内感染性肺炎的发生中起着重要的作用。
• 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。
• Some completed their capitalist primitive accumulation through colonization and plundering;
  一些国家通过殖民掠夺完成了资本主义原始积累；
• Paradox of Modernity of Colonization: Dilemma of Lai He's Cultural Choice
  殖民现代性悖论：赖和文化选择的两难境地