colony
基本释义
- n.殖民地;殖民团,移民队;聚集人群,聚居地(区);群体,群落;(统称)英属殖民地;(美国独立前的)北美十三州
词语例句
殖民地cn.
六级In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing.
在法国的各前北非殖民地,反法情绪正在增长。
He was probably stationed in this provincial trading port, founded in 46 B. C. as a colony for veterans of the Roman army.
他可能驻扎在这个作为罗马军队退伍军人殖民地的省贸易港,该贸易港于公元前46年建立。
殖民团,移民队cn.
They are a colony of settlers.
他们是一群殖民地定居者。
聚集人群,聚居地(区)cn.
In 1932, he established a school and artists' colony in Stone City, Iowa.
1932年,他在爱荷华州的小石城建立了一所学校和艺术家聚居区。
群体,群落cn.
六级四级The islands are famed for their colonies of sea birds.
这些岛屿因有成群的海鸟居住而闻名。
Unfortunately, our homes are very attractive to ants, because it provides everything the colony needs to survive, such as food, water, and shelter.
不幸的是,我们的家对蚂蚁很有吸引力,因为它提供了蚁群生存所需的一切,如食物、水和庇护所。
In ponds closest to the colony, the results showed there were far more pollutants than in ponds less affected by the birds.
结果显示,在离该群体最近的池塘里,污染物含量远高于受鸟类影响较小的池塘。
- Different animals in the colony had different manifestations of the disease.同一群体的不同动物对同一疾病有不同的表现形式。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- America used to be a British colony.美国曾经是英国的殖民地。
- What happened to the lost colony of the Americas?失去的美洲殖民地发生了什么事?
相关短语
- bacterial colonyn. (细菌)菌落;细菌聚落
- colony formation群体形成;集落形成
- crown colony英国直辖殖民地
- colony count菌落计数;菌落数(测定法)
- penal colony(罪犯的)流放地
- The Colony重建人类社会;末世殖民地;殖民地;尊严殖民地
- Space colony宇宙殖民地;太空殖民地;殖民卫星;宇宙殖官天
- Cape Colony开普殖民地;殖民角;海角殖民地
- German Colony德国侨民区;德国殖民区;海法德国区
- MacDowell Colony道尔艺术村;威尔文艺营
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词义分布
英英释义
- n.a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- n.a group of animals of the same type living together
- n.one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
- n.a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
- n.(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
- n.an area or a group of people that is controlled by another country
殖民地- Massachusetts was a British colony.马萨诸塞州曾是英国殖民地。
词源
- colony殖民地来自PIE*kwel, 转,耕作,词源同cycle, culture. 本义为到新的地方开发,耕作,后指殖民,占领别人的土地。
- colony殖民地词根词缀: -colon-耕种,殖民 + -y名词词尾
- colony殖民地culture(培植;文化)的词根cult表“耕种”,其字面意思即“对土地的耕种”。应该可以这样说,食物的可持续供应,是一个文明生根发芽的条件以及源远流长的保证。colony是其同根词,词根col-表“耕种”,殖民的第一步即开发土地;-ony为复合名词后缀。