colonize

verb

1. 在（某国家或地区）建立殖民地；移民于（殖民地）
   to take control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and send people from your own country to live there
   1. The area was colonized by the Vikings.
      这一地区曾沦为维京人的殖民地。
2. 在（某一地区）聚居，大批生长
   to live or grow in large numbers in a particular area
   1. The slopes are colonized by flowering plants.
      坡地上长满了开花植物。
   2. Bats had colonized the ruins.
      蝙蝠聚居在这片废墟上。

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 colonise


1. 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.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
   3. For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.
      我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。
2. 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.
   1. Toads are colonising the whole place.
      蟾蜍把这整个地方都占为己有。
3. 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.
   1. The area was then colonized by scrub.
      后来这块地灌木丛生。

1. 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。
2. For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.
   我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。
3. The area was then colonized by scrub.
   后来这块地灌木丛生。
4. Ferns and other greenery colonize rimstone.
   蕨类和其它草木在石头的边缘生长。
5. A couple million years ago, mammoths migrated north from Africa to colonize Eurasia.
   数百万年前，猛犸象从非洲出发，进军欧亚大陆。
6. If true, that would suggest that many global-warming migrants might run out of new sites to colonize& and face extinction.
   如果这一情况属实，那么说明了许多全球气候变暖移居者和可能会用尽新的居住地，导致濒临灭绝。
7. Interactions between symbiotic or pathogenic microbes and the hosts they colonize are central to both health and disease.
   共生微生物或病源微生物与其定植的宿主间的交互作用对于（宿主的）健康和疾病都极为重要。
8. Anaerobic bacteria can selectively colonize and cause oncolysis in hypoxic and necrotic areas of solid tumors.
   厌氧菌能在肿瘤乏氧及坏死区选择性定植，引起溶瘤效应；
9. Probiotics contain live microorganisms, usually so-called good bacteria, that colonize the intestine.
   微生物制剂含有活的微生物，通常称为益生菌，寄生于肠道。
10. This suggests that the two groups might have crossed paths in Central Asia and then the modern humans continued on to colonize the islands of Oceania.
    这表明这两部分人曾经穿越中亚，然后现代人继续把大洋州的一些岛屿变为殖民地。
11. The group is trying to demonstrate that it is possible to colonize the seabed without changing the ecosystem.
    这群潜水员试图证明，在不改变生态系统的前提下，人类在海底生活是可行的。
12. The presence and availability of water also affect the ability of microorganisms to colonize foods.
    水的存在和可利用率也影响微生物在食品中的繁殖能力。
13. The bigger the hull the less turns it takes to colonize a planet.
    船体越大，拓殖一个星球的机会也就越少。
14. And because scientists surmise that language arose only once, they believe that before leaving Africa to colonize the world, all humankind spoke one language.
    因为科学家们推测，语言只发生一次，他们相信前离开非洲到世界殖民化，全人类讲一种语言。
15. To colonize effectively, real space move to an upgrade port. Pick up a full load of Colonists, Fighters, and Torpedoes.
    要有效的殖民化，真实空间移动到一个升级港口。装载殖民者，战斗机，和鱼类到最大限度。
16. Humans may one day colonize other planets.
    有一天人类能够征服其他行星。
17. Colonize constantly, using the money produced by your Planets to buy supplies for your Planets.
    不断地拓殖发展你的行星，用你的行星生产的钱，买供应品给你的行星。
18. They find a similar pattern: when species colonize the deep sea, large-bodied species become smaller and small-bodied species become larger.
    他们发现了一个相似的模式：当海螺统治深海的时候，大型的海螺变得更小，而小型的海螺则变得更大。
19. They are slow-growing but can colonize areas too inhospitable for other plants.
    地衣生长缓慢，可在其它植物不能生长的地方生存。
20. The human race is likely to be wiped out by a doomsday virus before this millennium is out unless it starts to colonize space, top British scientist Stephen Hawking warned.
    英国的顶尖科学家斯蒂芬·霍金警告我们：除非开始向宇宙空间殖民，否则不出这个千年人类就会被某种“世界末日”病毒灭种。
21. The divers want to show it's possible for humans to colonize the seabed.
    这几名潜水员想证明人类能够在海底生活。
22. Some even suggest that this technology may help humankind colonize Mars.
    有些科学家甚至认为这种技术或许还能帮助人类克隆火星。
23. Soon after Europeans began to colonize North America, greedy merchants brought African slaves to do the hard work.
    欧洲人开始到北美殖民不久，贪婪的商人把非洲奴隶带来做劳苦的工作。
24. In 1698 the nobles and landowners of the kingdom of Scotland tried to elevate their country to a world trading nation by colonize ing the isthmus of Panama.
    1698年，苏格兰王国的贵族与大地主试图通过殖民统治巴拿马地峡把他们的国家提升为世界贸易强国。
25. A3: I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
    我认为我们的文明还是有很大的机会存活到我们可以殖民太阳系其它行星的。
26. The microbes we have all our lives are the ones that colonize us in the first weeks and months after birth, while our immune system is still undeveloped;
    我们一生中拥有的微生物是我们出生后最初的几个礼拜当我们的免疫系统尚未健全的时候迁移进来的；
27. Iraq will rebel against their evil intentions to colonize it and to wield influence in it.
    伊拉克将要反抗他们有害的意图去开拓殖民地和动员影响力。

verb

1. settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)
   1. The British colonized the East Coast

   Synonym:    colonise

2. settle as a colony
   1. Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century

   Synonym:    colonise