英语单词 | colonial |
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英美音标 | 英 [kə'ləʊniəl] 美 [kə'loʊniəl] |
中文释义 | adj.殖民地的 n.殖民地居民 |
英语例句 | (1) France was once a colonial power. (2) American Independence War is really a colonial war. (3) His forefathers were colonial in the control of England. |
中文例句 | (1) 法国一度是占有殖民地的强国。 (2) 美国的独立战争实际是一场关于殖民地的战争。 (3) 他祖先是英国殖民地居民。 |
vocabulary简明 | The colonial period of United States history occurred before 1776, when America was still 13 colonies under British rule. |
vocabulary扩展 | You can use the word colonial to describe an inhabitant of a colony ruled by another country, but you wouldn’t call a painter living in an artists' colony a colonial. On the other hand, ants, which live in ant colonies, are colonial insects. British colonial is a style of furniture the British favored for their houses and tents in India or on safari in Africa — when India and parts of Africa were British colonies. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]殖民地的;殖民主义的 Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism. [ADJ n]
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]生活在殖民地的宗主国居民 People who have lived for a long time in a colony but who belong to the colonizing country are sometimes referred to as colonials . [usu pl]
3 [ADJ 形容词](建筑或家具)具有英属殖民地时期特色的,美洲殖民地时期的 A Colonial building or piece of furniture was built or made in a style that was popular in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [usu ADJ n] [mainly AM 主美]
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