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colony

英 [ˈkɒləni]

美 [ˈkɑːləni]

n.  殖民地; 殖民地定居者群体; (来自同一地方,职业或兴趣相同的)聚居人群

复数:colonies 

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同义词辨析

communitycolonycommune【导航词义:社区,聚居区】

communityn. 社区
〔辨析〕
指同住一地的人所构成的群体。
〔例证〕
Here is a local Spanish community.
这是当地西班牙人的一个社区。
There is a strong sense of community in this area.
该地区有一种强烈的社区意识。
colonyn. 聚居区,聚居地
〔辨析〕
指同住一地、具有某些相似处的群体,也指该群体的居住地。
〔例证〕
a leper colony
麻风病人聚居地
They visited an artists' colony in Paris.
他们访问了巴黎的一个艺术家聚居区。
communen. 群居团体,社区
〔辨析〕
通常指共同生活、分享财物、分担职责的群体。
〔例证〕
a coffee/hippie/network culture commune
咖啡/嬉皮士/网络文化群体

牛津词典

    noun

    • 殖民地
      a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country
      1. former British colonies
        前英国殖民地
    • 殖民地定居者群体
      a group of people who go to live permanently in a colony
      1. (来自同一地方,职业或兴趣相同的)聚居人群
        a group of people from the same place or with the same work or interests who live in a particular city or country or who live together
        1. the American colony in Paris
          聚居巴黎的美国侨民
        2. an artists' colony
          聚居的艺术家
      2. (雇主或机构设立的)职工城,职工居住区
        a small town set up by an employer or an organization for its workers
        1. (同地生长的植物或动物)群,群体,集落
          a group of plants or animals that live together or grow in the same place
          1. a colony of ants
            蚁群
          2. a bird colony
            鸟群

        柯林斯词典

        • N-COUNT 殖民地
          Acolonyis a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.
          1. 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。
          2. 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。
        • N-COUNT (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 ofcolony.
          1. 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。
          2. ...a penal colony.
            罪犯流放地
          3. ...industrial colonies.
            工业聚集区
        • N-PLURAL (统称)英属殖民地
          The coloniesmeans all the countries that used to be British colonies.
          1. 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。
        • N-PLURAL (美国独立前的)北美十三州
          The coloniesmeans the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States.
          1. 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。
        • N-COUNT (鸟、昆虫或动物的)群体,集群,群落
          Acolony ofbirds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together.
          1. 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。
          2. The caterpillars feed in large colonies.
            毛毛虫总是成群进食。

        英英释义

        noun

        • a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
          1. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
            1. a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
              1. the American colony in Paris
              Synonym:settlement
            2. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
                Synonym:dependency
              1. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
                1. a nudist colony
                2. an artists' colony

              双语例句

              • A colony of termites invaded the new building.
                一群白蚁侵袭了新大楼。
              • The immigrant colony is frequently nothing more than a transplanted village, for Americas actually has been colonized not by races or by nationalities, but by villages.
                移民侨居地往往不过是一个个迁移过来的村落,而美国实际上不是被一些种族和民族而是被一些村落拓殖起来的。
              • Australia was originally a British colony.
                澳大利亚原来是英国的殖民地。
              • Traditional ant colony algorithm is modified in the aspects of transition probability and dynamic updating mechanism sociohormone.
                从转移概率和信息素的动态更新机制两方面对传统蚁群算法进行了改进。
              • This island is a colony; however, in most matters, it is autonomous and receives no orders from the mother country.
                那个岛是个殖民地,然而在大多数问题上它享有自治权,可以不接受宗主国的命令。
              • This paper mainly integrated ant colony algorithm, genetic operation and differential evolution algorithm's advantages.
                主要综合了蚁群算法、遗传算法、差异演化算法三者优点。
              • 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。
              • 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。
              • He said the move would definitely stem the haemorrhage of talent and enterprise from the colony.
                他表示这一举措势必会抑制殖民地人才和企业严重流失的现象。