colonize

英 [ˈkɒlənaɪz]

美 [ˈkɑːlənaɪz]

v.  在(某国家或地区)建立殖民地; 移民于(殖民地); 在(某一地区)聚居，大批生长

过去分词：colonized　过去式：colonized　现在分词：colonizing　第三人称单数：colonizes　

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牛津词典

verb

• 在（某国家或地区）建立殖民地；移民于（殖民地）
  to take control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and send people from your own country to live there
  1. The area was colonized by the Vikings.
     这一地区曾沦为维京人的殖民地。
• 在（某一地区）聚居，大批生长
  to live or grow in large numbers in a particular area
  1. The slopes are colonized by flowering plants.
     坡地上长满了开花植物。
  2. Bats had colonized the ruins.
     蝙蝠聚居在这片废墟上。

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

verb

• settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
  1. The British colonized the East Coast
  Synonym:colonise
• settle as a colony
  1. Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century
  Synonym:colonise

双语例句

• Iraq will rebel against their evil intentions to colonize it and to wield influence in it.
  伊拉克将要反抗他们有害的意图去开拓殖民地和动员影响力。
• If true, that would suggest that many global-warming migrants might run out of new sites to colonize& and face extinction.
  如果这一情况属实，那么说明了许多全球气候变暖移居者和可能会用尽新的居住地，导致濒临灭绝。
• Interactions between symbiotic or pathogenic microbes and the hosts they colonize are central to both health and disease.
  共生微生物或病源微生物与其定植的宿主间的交互作用对于（宿主的）健康和疾病都极为重要。
• And because scientists surmise that language arose only once, they believe that before leaving Africa to colonize the world, all humankind spoke one language.
  因为科学家们推测，语言只发生一次，他们相信前离开非洲到世界殖民化，全人类讲一种语言。
• The group is trying to demonstrate that it is possible to colonize the seabed without changing the ecosystem.
  这群潜水员试图证明，在不改变生态系统的前提下，人类在海底生活是可行的。
• A3: I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
  我认为我们的文明还是有很大的机会存活到我们可以殖民太阳系其它行星的。
• Colonize constantly, using the money produced by your Planets to buy supplies for your Planets.
  不断地拓殖发展你的行星，用你的行星生产的钱，买供应品给你的行星。
• In 1698 the nobles and landowners of the kingdom of Scotland tried to elevate their country to a world trading nation by colonize ing the isthmus of Panama.
  1698年，苏格兰王国的贵族与大地主试图通过殖民统治巴拿马地峡把他们的国家提升为世界贸易强国。
• Soon after Europeans began to colonize North America, greedy merchants brought African slaves to do the hard work.
  欧洲人开始到北美殖民不久，贪婪的商人把非洲奴隶带来做劳苦的工作。
• To colonize effectively, real space move to an upgrade port. Pick up a full load of Colonists, Fighters, and Torpedoes.
  要有效的殖民化，真实空间移动到一个升级港口。装载殖民者，战斗机，和鱼类到最大限度。