[N-COUNT 可数名词]殖民地 A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.
[usu supp N]
In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing...
在北非的一些前法属殖民地国家，反法情绪日益增长。
Puerto Rico, though it calls itself a Commonwealth, is really a self-governing American colony.
波多黎各尽管自称共和国，但实际上是有自治权的美国殖民地。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](某一类人的)聚居地，聚居区 You can refer to a place where a particular group of people lives as a particular kind of colony .
[usu with supp]
In 1932, he established a school and artists' colony in Stone City, Iowa.
1932年，他在艾奥瓦州的石头城创建了一所学校，那儿成了艺术家的聚居地。
...a penal colony.
罪犯流放地
...industrial colonies.
工业聚集区
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[N-PLURAL 复数名词](统称)英属殖民地The colonies means all the countries that used to be British colonies.
[the N]
[BRIT 英]
[OLD-FASHIONED 过时]
Many of our troops and officers were scattered around the world in the service of His Majesty in the colonies.
我们的很多部队和军官分驻世界各地的英属殖民地，为英王效力。
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[N-PLURAL 复数名词](美国独立前的)北美十三州The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States.
[AM 美]
On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
独立战争前夕，北美十三州每年生产3万吨生铁。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](鸟、昆虫或动物的)群体，集群，群落 A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together.
[oft N of n]
The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds...
设得兰群岛以其众多的海鸟而闻名。
The caterpillars feed in large colonies.
毛毛虫总是成群进食。
Oxford
col·ony/ˈkɒləni; NAmEˈkɑːləni/noun(pluralcol·onies)1[countable ]a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country 殖民地◆former British colonies前英国殖民地2[singular + singular or plural verb ]a group of people who go to live permanently in a colony殖民地定居者群体3[countable + singular or plural verb ]a group of people from the same place or with the same work or interests who live in a particular city or country or who live together （来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群◆the American colony in Paris聚居巴黎的美国侨民◆an artists' colony聚居的艺术家4[countable ]( IndE) a small town set up by an employer or an organization for its workers （雇主或机构设立的）职工城，职工居住区5[countable + singular or plural verb ]( biology 生) a group of plants or animals that live together or grow in the same place （同地生长的植物或动物）群，群体，集落◆a colony of ants蚁群◆a bird colony鸟群colonycoloniescol·ony/ˈkɒləni; NAmEˈkɑːləni/
1a country or area that is under the political control of a more powerful country, usually one that is far away → colonial, colonize: Algeria was formerly a French colony. →
crown colony
2one of the 13 areas of land on the east coast of North America that later became the United States3a group of people who are similar in some way and who live together, or the place where they live: an artists’ colony a leper colony4a group of animals or plants of the same type that are living or growing together: a seal colony breeding colonies of rare birds
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