| 词汇 | colonized |
| 释义 | colonized past simple and past participle ofcolonize 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 colony commonwealth condominium crown colony declare independence imperially independence Independence Day intercolonial land acknowledgment recolonize secede secession self-determination self-governing 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 colonizedcolonized In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. During hiatuses in deposition, relatively mature vegetation colonized sediment surfaces. 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? Her case cautions us against assuming that because the categories of colonized and colonizer are constructed, they lacked reality to those who lived inside them. In approaching the imperial experience, both colonizer and colonized often resorted to fiction. Further, the probability that a bird becomes colonized is greater than the prevalence of positive birds in the cluster. The author relies totally on official documentation and expresses regrets that no one has recorded the reminiscences of the colonized (p. 708). Only 30 from the 53 studied plant species were colonized by fruit flies. The colonized bird is then removed from the susceptible population. The overall vaccination rate was 75.2% and the proportion of colonized children was not significantly different between unvaccinated (8.4%) and vaccinated (6.8 %) subjects. While the 'formal colony' signified political domination of the colonized area, the 'substantial colony' signified the transmigration of social groups. 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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