| 词汇 | colonize |
| 释义 | colonizeWord family adjectivecolonialcolonialistnouncolonialismcolonistcolonizationcolonizercolonyadverbcoloniallyverbcolonize Government col·o·nize (also colonise British English) /ˈkɒlənaɪz $ ˈkɑː-/ verb [transitiveT] 1. PGto establish political control over an area or over another country, and send your citizens there to settle 开拓〔某地〕成殖民地 → colony 2 if animals or plants colonize an area, large numbers of them start to live there 〔动植物在某地〕聚居；大批繁殖；大批生长 a dead tree that has been colonized by ants 被蚂蚁占据的一棵死树 —colonizer noun [countableC] —colonization /ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃən $ ˌkɑːlənə-/ noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus colonize• Yet, in fact, only a small part of the world has yet been car colonized.• Three young men in cutoffs had colonized a triangular space and were flipping a Frisbee.• But what is beyond question is that, in the post-contact era, it was Hawaii that colonized other countries with surfing.• Crabs are among the first animals to colonize the new vent sites. |
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