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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Goias testifies to the occupation and colonization of the lands of central Brazil in the18th and19th centuries.
  戈亚斯城向世人展示了18世纪和19世纪巴西中部被占领时的殖民历史。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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
• 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。
• These countries took part in the colonization of Africa.
  这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。