colonies
[ˈkɔləniz]

n.

殖民地( colony的名词复数 )；（侨民等）聚居区；（动植物的）群体；（来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C]殖民地 a country or area under the political control of a distant country
2. [C](侨民等)聚居区,聚居地; 聚居的同国籍侨民; 聚居的同类人 (the area settled by) a group of people from the same country or with the same interests, profession, etc.living together
3. [C](动植物的)群体,集群 a group of the same kind of animals or plants living or growing together

英英释义

colony

• n.
  • 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

    同义词：settlement

  • a group of animals of the same type living together
  • one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
  • a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

    同义词：dependency

  • (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

• develop a colony开发殖民地
• establish〔found〕 a colony建立殖民地

形容词+～

• Crown C-英国殖民地
• penal colony(罪犯的)流放地
• self-governing colony自治殖民地
• the Chinese colony in San Francisco旧金山的中国侨民

名词+～

• bee colony蜂群
• summer colony避暑者聚集的地方

词组短语

bacterial colony n. （细菌）菌落；细菌聚落

colony formation群体形成；集落形成

crown colony英国直辖殖民地

colony count菌落计数；菌落数（测定法）

penal colony（罪犯的）流放地

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. This country used to be a British colony in Asia.
   这个国家曾是英国在亚洲的殖民地。
2. Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.
   英国授权代管德国在东非的前殖民地。
3. That first winter in America was very hard for the new colony.
   对于新侨民来说,在美国的第一个冬天是非常难熬的。
4. They live in an artists' colony.
   他们住在艺术家聚居区。
5. It grows twice as fast as the second colony.
   它增长的速率是第二个群体的两倍。
6. Every specimen makes germiculture and bacterium colony computation.
   每份标本作细菌培养和菌落计数。
7. And if the colony were inside something as large as a pebble, UV protection would be sharply increased.
   如果菌落藏身于卵石般大小的东西内部，紫外线防护效果就会显著增加。

权威例句

Ant Colonies for the Traveling Salesman Problem
Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem.
Ant colonies for the quadratic assignment problem
Distributed Optimization by Ant Colonies
Distributed Optimization by Ants Colonies
Breeding ecology of Caspian terns at colonies on the Columbia Plateau
The development of fibroblast colonies in monolayer cultures of guinea-pig bone marrow and spleen cells
Sequential generations of hematopoietic colonies derived from single nonlineage-committed CD34+CD38- progenitor cells.
Bee Work. (Book Reviews: The Wisdom of the Hive. The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies.)
Serial cultivation of strains of human epidermal keratinocytes: the formation of keratinizing colonies from single cells