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

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。

noun

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

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；
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。
But it also supported the colonization by European.
但后来也一度支持了欧洲的殖民扩张。
Colonization of cryptic growth cells was studied by observing tissue sample directly.
对小鼠结肠组织原位标本进行潜生体定植的实验研究。
These countries took part in the colonization of Africa.
这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。
Colonization and semi-colonization of the economy of Latin America
拉丁美洲经济的殖民地化和半殖民地化
Action of Technology in the Time of Global Economy and Post Colonization
技术在经济全球化与后殖民时代中的作用
Post colonization bonuses are now applied essentially at the same time as gaining of ownership of the planet.
后殖民奖金现在基本上是适用的同时，获得所有权的行星。
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。
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。