colonize
美音:
[´kɔlə´naız
]英音:
[´kɔlə´naız
]vt.拓殖,殖民
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colonize为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
名词:colonizer 动词过去式:colonized 过去分词:colonized 现在分词:colonizing 第三人称单数:colonizes
词根
cult=to till(耕种)
colonize
/'kɒlənaɪz; `kɑlə,naɪz/
v [Tn] establish a colony in (an area); establish (an area) as a colony 在(一地区)建立殖民地; 把(某地区)开拓为殖民地
*Britain colonized many parts of Africa. 英国在非洲开拓了许多殖民地.
* Britain was colonized by the Romans. 不列颠曾沦为罗马人的殖民地.
colonize
v [T]to establish political control over an area or over another country, and send your citizens there to settle
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colonyif animals or plants colonize an area, large numbers of them start to live there
a dead tree that has been colonized by ants>colonizer ['kɔlənaɪzə (US) -ər/
1. For decades, the government sought to colonize and develop the Amazon, bringing severe environmental disaster to the area and its people. 几十年来,巴西政府一直在致力于开拓和开发亚马逊雨林,给这个地区及其居民带来了严重的环境灾难。
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