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Colonize Verb 动词 N Colonized Attempt Live   [V

英语单词 colonize
英美音标 英 ['kɒlənaɪz] 美 ['kɑːlənaɪz]
中文释义 v.开拓殖民地;移居于殖民地
英语例句 (1) Britain colonized many parts of Africa.
(2) Some Westerners came to colonize; others came to convert; most came to exploit.
(3) Someday human beings will attempt to colonize outer space.
(4) The divers want to show it's possible for humans to colonize the seabed.
中文例句 (1) 英国在非洲开拓了许多殖民地。
(2) 有些西方人为了殖民而来,有些是为了宣传基督教义,但大多数是为了剥削。
(3) 有朝一日人类会试图开拓外太空成殖民地。
(4) 这几名潜水员想证明人类能够在海底生活。
柯林斯解释
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 colonise
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[VERB 动词]在…开拓殖民地;将…建成殖民地 If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
  [V n]
  [V-ed]
  • 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。

  • 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。

  • For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.

    我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。

colonizer
  • To the former Belgian colonizers, Rwanda was a paradise.

    对于以前的比利时殖民者来说,卢旺达就是个天堂。

colonization
  • ...the European colonization of America.

    欧洲国家对美洲的殖民

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[VERB 动词](动物)移生于,大批繁殖于 When large numbers of animals colonize a place, they go to live there and make it their home.
  [V n]
  • Toads are colonising the whole place.

    蟾蜍把这整个地方都占为己有。

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[VERB 动词](植物)大批生长于 When an area is colonized by a type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.
  [be V-ed by n]
  [usu passive]
  • The area was then colonized by scrub.

    后来这块地灌木丛生。

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