| 单词 | colonize |
| 释义 | Related topics: Governmentcol·o·nize (also colonise British English) /ˈkɒlənaɪz $ ˈkɑː-/ verb [transitive] 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 → colony2 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 [countable] —colonization /ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃən $ ˌkɑːlənə-/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuscolonize• 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.col·o·nize verbChineseSyllable political over control Corpus to area establish or an |
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