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

And colonization damages indigenous cultures and exterminates native ecology.
而殖民毁坏了本土文化，破坏了当地的生态。
Within a short time the trading company had supplanted the individual promoter of colonization.
在很短的时间内，这个贸易公司已经取代了个体殖民推动者。
These countries took part in the colonization of Africa.
这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。
Paradox of Modernity of Colonization: Dilemma of Lai He's Cultural Choice
殖民现代性悖论：赖和文化选择的两难境地
Colonization and semi-colonization of the economy of Latin America
拉丁美洲经济的殖民地化和半殖民地化
The information of this research ranged from the period between Japanese colonization and postwar up to now.
研究资料涵盖日殖时期前后与战后至今的发展史。
But it also supported the colonization by European.
但后来也一度支持了欧洲的殖民扩张。
However, the extent to which gastrointestinal colonization with MRSA affects environmental contamination is not known.
然而，病人的胃肠道定植有MRSA对环境污染的程度目前尚不清楚。
Chapter Two surveys the company colonization in America.
第二章论述了商业公司对美洲的殖民开发情况。
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