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

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。
The colonization of America by the British, Dutch and French
英国人、荷兰人和法国人拓殖美洲
The colonization of pathogen to biocontrol bacteria had great effects on leaves but little on branches.
病原菌的接入对生防菌在叶部的定殖影响较大，对在枝干定殖影响较小。
Briefly, the traditional Asian agrarian structure before European colonization was organized around the village community.
简言之，亚洲传统的土地所有制结构在欧洲殖民化之前早就在农村村社周围形成了。
But it also supported the colonization by European.
但后来也一度支持了欧洲的殖民扩张。
Africa has yet to recover from the ravages of the slave trade or the subsequent era of colonization.
非洲尚未从奴隶贸易的破坏中，或从其后的殖民时代恢复元气。
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。
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。
These countries took part in the colonization of Africa.
这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。
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