colonise是什么意思？

colonise

英['kɒləˌnaɪz] 美['kɒləˌnaɪz]

• vt. 开拓殖民地，移民于殖民地；

例句

• Still, we know surprisingly little about the smallest beings that colonise Earth. 然而, 至今我们对这些拓殖地球的最小生物体的了解,竟然少之甚少.
• They are already discovering how to colonise Venus and to irrigate the moon. 他们正在探索如何殖民于金星,和如何灌溉月球.
• ...the idea that humans might one day quit the earth to colonise other planets... 人类有朝一日可能会离开地球到其他星球定居繁衍的想法

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  开拓殖民地, 移民于殖民地
  The British and French colonized the Americas. 英国人和法国人共同在美洲建立殖民地。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world;
  "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"
  2. settle as colonists or establish a colony (in);
  "The British colonized the East Coast"