单词 | colony |
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音标 | ['kɔləni] |
解释 | n.菌群;殖民地 |
红宝书 | 【英】 殖民地(area conquered by people from anothers country and controlled by that country) 【考】 bacterium : colony / citizen : nation(细菌组成菌落/公民 组成国家) 【例】 a former British colony |
字源 | colony (n.) late 14c., "ancient Roman settlement outside Italy," from Latin colonia "settled land, farm, landed estate," from colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler in new land," from colere "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "move around" (source of Latin -cola "inhabitant;" see cycle (n.)). Also used by the Romans to translate Greek apoikia "people from home." Modern application dates from 1540s. |
不择手段背单词 | n. 菌落; 殖民地(政治上被一个远方国家控制的地区) 【参】colonize(vt 拓殖, 殖民); colonization(n 殖民地化) 【类】bacterium: colony = citizen: nation 细菌组成菌落 = 公民组成民族 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】音:克隆你,克隆细胞细菌,或克隆好多个你,建立一个殖民地 |
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