| 词汇 | colonize |
| 释义 | colonize verb (UK usuallycolonise)uk /ˈkɒl.ə.naɪz/ us /ˈkɑː.lə.naɪz/ [ T ] to send people to live in and govern another country: 使殖民地化;将…建为殖民地 Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century.秘鲁在16世纪沦为西班牙的殖民地。 European nations set about violently invading and colonising large chunks of the globe. Some scientists believe that we will have to colonise other planets. Compare decolonize recolonize [ I or T ] (of animals, plants, or bacteria) to start to live or grow in a particular area: The beetles colonise a tree, tunnelling through the bark to lay eggs. The ceilings of the caves had been colonized by bats. Left alone, domestic cats quickly colonize, breed and become wild. The bacterium can colonise in the nose, throat, and skin without causing infection. [ T ]usually disapproving to fill a particular place or take control of a particular area of activity: The city centre has been colonized by coffee shop chains. Belize was colonised by the British. The image shows a colonizing ship sailing toward the new world. She imagines a future in which humans have colonised the solar system. The bacteria have a unique ability to colonize the human stomach. This invasive species of algae has colonised the Atlantic coast of Europe. Mussels can significantly affect a boat's performance if they colonize on its hull. This part of Florida has been colonised by elderly retirees. They colonized our minds by sending us to their schools. Colonization & self-government acknowledgement of country annex annexation anti-colonial anti-colonialism commonwealth condominium crown colony declare independence decolonization independence Independence Day intercolonial land acknowledgment Nat secede secession self-determination self-governing self-government You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Animal dwellings - natural Animal & plant biology - general words Bacteria, moulds, germs & viruses Controlling and being in charge Related wordcolonization Examples of colonizecolonize During hiatuses in deposition, relatively mature vegetation colonized sediment surfaces. The symbiotic state enables the lichen thallus to colonize extreme habitats where the separate bionts would not be able to survive. The evolution of their oxygenic photosynthesis enabled cyanobacteria to colonize any illuminated habitats where free water was available as an electron donor by photolysis. Vaccinated hosts can only be colonized with the latter, and dual colonization is excluded. The majority of those colonized were elderly, many were female and nearly a third were residents of care homes. Other faults or fractures in the substratum not colonized by bacterial growths were observed. What parliamentarian communities incontrovertibly had in common, though, was the fact that they had been colonized by puritanism. In logistic regression, both spirochaete species showed a highly significant association with the existence of other family members who were colonized with the same species. What is unique about education for the "indigenous" children, those who belong to colonized ethnic groups? The marginal benefits are small if the net price of conversion is small or if there are few healthy patches that wildlife can colonize. In conclusion, government practices of colonizing the vineyards generated spaces where the body of the phylloxera were seen as either dead, alive, or absent. In approaching the imperial experience, both colonizer and colonized often resorted to fiction. For patient no. 2, the infecting strains from the candidiasis stage in 1999 and colonizing strains collected in 2001 and 2002 had y87 % relatedness. They initially colonize the leaves, and, after flowering, also the ears. One foundational act invited foreigners to "colonize" the internal heartlands in order to give the local populations new models of enlightened work and life. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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