in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 colonise
- 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.
- 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。 - For more than 400 years, we were a colonized people.
我们经受过400多年的殖民统治。
- 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.
- 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.
- The area was then colonized by scrub.
后来这块地灌木丛生。