colonized是什么意思？

colonized

• v. 开拓殖民地，移民于殖民地( colonize的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• The British and French colonized the Americas. 英国人和法国人共同在美洲建立殖民地。
• The plains of North America are colonized by rodents. 北美大平原生长着许多啮齿动物.
• The area was colonized by the Vikings. 这一地区曾沦为维京人的殖民地。
• For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people. 我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。
• The area was then colonized by scrub. 后来这块地灌木丛生。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  在…开拓殖民地;将…建成殖民地
  If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
  例句
  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。 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。
• VERB
  (动物)移生于，大批繁殖于
  When large numbers of animals colonize a place, they go to live there and make it their home.
  例句
  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 area is colonized by a type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.
  例句
  The area was then colonized by scrub. 后来这块地灌木丛生。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. inhabited by colonists