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

• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• AbstractObjectiveTo analyze the condition of bacterial colonization and risk factors of the colonized bacteria on premature infants in NICU.
  目的了解NICU中住院早产儿的细菌定植状况及定植菌的耐药性。
• 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。
• But it also supported the colonization by European.
  但后来也一度支持了欧洲的殖民扩张。
• 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。
• 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