colony

英 ['kɒləni] 美 ['kɑːləni]

• n. 殖民地；侨居地；侨民；聚居(地)；群体；菌落

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]殖民地

   a country or area under the political control of a distant country

2. [C](侨民等)聚居区,聚居地; 聚居的同国籍侨民; 聚居的同类人

   (the area settled by) a group of people from the same country or with the same interests, profession, etc.living together

3. [C](动植物的)群体,集群

   a group of the same kind of animals or plants living or growing together

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 殖民地
2. 【生】群体，集群，群
3. 侨居地，侨民区
4. 侨民
5. 聚居地
6. 聚居人群
7. 殖民团，移民队
8. 菌落
9. 【希史】殖民城市
10. 【罗史】征服区驻防地
11. 【动】集团
12. 【地】化石群
13. 殖民地定居者群体

英英释义

Noun:

1. 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;

   "the American colony in Paris"
   

2. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

3. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

4. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated;

   "a nudist colony"
   "an artists' colony"
   

5. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

6. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. This country used to be a British colony in Asia.
   这个国家曾是英国在亚洲的殖民地。
2. Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.
   英国授权代管德国在东非的前殖民地。
3. That first winter in America was very hard for the new colony.
   对于新侨民来说,在美国的第一个冬天是非常难熬的。
4. They live in an artists' colony.
   他们住在艺术家聚居区。
5. It grows twice as fast as the second colony.
   它增长的速率是第二个群体的两倍。
6. Every specimen makes germiculture and bacterium colony computation.
   每份标本作细菌培养和菌落计数。
7. And if the colony were inside something as large as a pebble, UV protection would be sharply increased.
   如果菌落藏身于卵石般大小的东西内部，紫外线防护效果就会显著增加。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. They amassed huge wealth by plundering the colonies.
   他们通过掠夺殖民地聚敛了大笔的财富。
2. They live in an artists' colony.
   他们住在艺术家聚居区。

经典引文

• Colonies sent from England, to plant Virginia.

  出自： Hobbes

• A ship stored for a voyage to the colonies.

  出自： S. Johnson

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• develop a colony 开发殖民地
• establish〔found〕 a colony 建立殖民地

形容词+～

• Crown C- 英国殖民地
• penal colony (罪犯的)流放地
• self-governing colony 自治殖民地
• the Chinese colony in San Francisco 旧金山的中国侨民

名词+～

• bee colony 蜂群
• summer colony 避暑者聚集的地方

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. colony的基本意思是“殖民地”; 引申可指在国籍、兴趣、职业等方面具有共同之处的同类人,也可指他们的聚居地,还可指共生的动物或植物群体。
2. colony在指聚居的同类人或共生的动植物群体时,常用单数形式; 如果指的是人群、动物或植物群落的整体时,则谓语动词用单数形式; 如果指的是群体内的全部个体时,则谓语动词用复数形式。

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自中古英语的colonie，意为农夫，耕种。

近反义词

【近义词】

• settlement 解决
• dependency 依赖
• community 社区
• outpost 前哨
• protectorate 摄政
• satellite 卫星；人造卫星...
• gathering 集会
• group 群
• collection 收集
• cluster 群
• association 协会
• society 社会