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Colony British Group People America Place Live N Count

英语单词 colony
英美音标 英 ['kɒləni] 美 ['kɑːləni]
中文释义 n.殖民地;侨居地;侨民;聚居(地);群体;菌落
英语例句 (1) This country used to be a British colony in Asia.
(2) Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.
(3) That first winter in America was very hard for the new colony.
(4) It grows twice as fast as the second colony.
(5) Every specimen makes germiculture and bacterium colony computation.
(6) And if the colony were inside something as large as a pebble, UV protection would be sharply increased.
中文例句 (1) 这个国家曾是英国在亚洲的殖民地。
(2) 英国授权代管德国在东非的前殖民地。
(3) 对于新侨民来说,在美国的第一个冬天是非常难熬的。
(4) 它增长的速率是第二个群体的两倍。
(5) 每份标本作细菌培养和菌落计数。
(6) 如果菌落藏身于卵石般大小的东西内部,紫外线防护效果就会显著增加。
vocabulary简明 A colony is a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland. The people who founded the United States first came to America to live as part of a British colony.
vocabulary扩展 Colony comes from the Latin colonia, meaning "settled land, farm." Colony can also mean "a group of people who've gathered to live near each other and share the same interest." An artists' colony would be a place where everyone's an artist, while a Dunkin' Donuts colony would be full of coffee lovers. The same rules apply to the animal kingdom — an ant colony has a shared interest in ruining your picnic.
柯林斯解释
1
[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。

2
[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

3
[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。

4
[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。

5
[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。

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