colonization

英 [ˌkɒlənaɪˈzeɪʃn]

美 [ˌkɑːlənəˈzeɪʃn]

n. 殖民地的开拓，殖民，殖民地化；移植; 占据；集群（现象）

BNC.24415 / COCA.10613

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 colonise

VERB 在…开拓殖民地;将…建成殖民地
If peoplecolonizea foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
1. The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century...
  英国最早尝试在爱尔兰开拓殖民地是在12世纪。
2. Liberia was never colonised by the European powers...
  利比里亚从未沦落为欧洲强国的殖民地。
3. For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.
  我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。
VERB (动物)移生于，大批繁殖于
When large numbers of animalscolonizea place, they go to live there and make it their home.
1. Toads are colonising the whole place.
  蟾蜍把这整个地方都占为己有。
VERB (植物)大批生长于
When an areais colonized bya type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.
1. The area was then colonized by scrub.
  后来这块地灌木丛生。

noun

the act of colonizing
1. the British colonization of America
Synonym:colonisationsettlement

The colonization of rhizobia on the roots of legumes and nonlegumes has been well documented.
豆科和非豆科植物根上瘤菌的群集现象曾被很好地证实过。
The colonization of N America by the British and French. colonization of the economy of North Africa
英国和法国对北美洲的殖民地化.北非经济的殖民地化
Action of Technology in the Time of Global Economy and Post Colonization
技术在经济全球化与后殖民时代中的作用
The colonization of America by the British, Dutch and French
英国人、荷兰人和法国人拓殖美洲
Colonization Patterns of Bacteria in Infected Root Canals and Susceptibility to Antibiotics in Vitro
感染根管内细菌的定植模式及其对抗生素敏感性的体外研究
But it also supported the colonization by European.
但后来也一度支持了欧洲的殖民扩张。
These countries took part in the colonization of Africa.
这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。
Colonization of cryptic growth cells was studied by observing tissue sample directly.
对小鼠结肠组织原位标本进行潜生体定植的实验研究。
Colonization took place during the Habsburg dynasty.
开拓殖民地在哈布斯堡王朝就进行过。
Some completed their capitalist primitive accumulation through colonization and plundering;
一些国家通过殖民掠夺完成了资本主义原始积累；