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colonize
[英] [ˈkɔləˌnaɪz] [美] [ˈkɑləˌnaɪz] 生词本

vt.

vi.

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in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 colonise
1. VERB 在…开拓殖民地;将…建成殖民地 If people colonize a 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。

colonizer

  • To the former Belgian colonizers, Rwanda was a paradise.

    对于以前的比利时殖民者来说，卢旺达就是个天堂。

colonization

  • ...the European colonization of America.

    欧洲国家对美洲的殖民

2. VERB (动物)移生于，大批繁殖于 When large numbers of animals colonize a 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。

3. VERB (植物)大批生长于 When an area is colonized by a 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。

Verb

1. settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world;

  • "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"

2. settle as colonists or establish a colony (in);

  • "The British colonized the East Coast"