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Colony是什么意思

Colony

英[ˈkɒləni] 美[ˈkɑːləni]

n. 殖民地，聚居人群，群体，(美国独立前的)北美十三州；

复数：colonies;

同义词

n.
colony的同义词之：殖民地;聚居地
community settlement
colony的同义词之：其他释义
settlement community dependency

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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殖民地

A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.
例句
In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing... 在北非的一些前法属殖民地国家，反法情绪日益增长。 Puerto Rico, though it calls itself a Commonwealth, is really a self-governing American colony. 波多黎各尽管自称共和国，但实际上是有自治权的美国殖民地。
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(某一类人的)聚居地，聚居区

You can refer to a place where a particular group of people lives as a particular kind of colony .
例句
In 1932, he established a school and artists' colony in Stone City, Iowa. 1932年，他在艾奥瓦州的石头城创建了一所学校，那儿成了艺术家的聚居地。 ...a penal colony. 罪犯流放地
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(统称)英属殖民地

The colonies means all the countries that used to be British colonies.
例句
Many of our troops and officers were scattered around the world in the service of His Majesty in the colonies. 我们的很多部队和军官分驻世界各地的英属殖民地，为英王效力。
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(美国独立前的)北美十三州

The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States.
例句
On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year. 独立战争前夕，北美十三州每年生产3万吨生铁。
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(鸟、昆虫或动物的)群体，集群，群落

A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together.
例句
The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds... 设得兰群岛以其众多的海鸟而闻名。 The caterpillars feed in large colonies. 毛毛虫总是成群进食。

英汉词典释义

n.
殖民地
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。
(侨民等)聚居区, 聚居地; 聚居的同国籍侨民; 聚居的同类人
They live in an artists' colony. 他们住在艺术家聚居区。
(动植物的)群体, 集群
There lived a colony of bees on the tree. 树上生活着一群蜜蜂。
（来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群

英英词典释义

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
2. a group of animals of the same type living together
3. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
4. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

行业词典

动物学：群体；
医学：菌〔集〕落，菌丛：细菌培养时，由分离的单个或一群细菌繁殖而形成的细菌集团；
地理学：殖民地；
植物学：群体；
水产：群体；种群不同生活阶段个体的集合，或几个生活在特定水域的种群的集合。；
法律：侨民；反腐倡廉；
生态学：集落；同种生物的个体在特定的环境空间和特定时间内的集聚群体。；
生物学：菌落；集落；