colonize
pronunciation
UK [ˈkɒlənaɪz]
US [ˈkɑːlənaɪz]
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- vt.
- 将…开拓为殖民地
- 从他地非法把选民移入
- 移于殖民地
- [生]移植植物
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- vi.
- 开拓殖民地
- 移居于殖民地
Word Origin
colonize 建立殖民地
来自colony, 殖民，聚居。
Example
- 1. Equally implausible is the notion that an extraterrestrial race would want to colonize earth .
- 外星种族来地球殖民同样是个令人难以置信的想法。
- 2. You might be asking : why on god 's green earth would beijing want to colonize the moon ?
- 你或许会问：北京脑子里是哪根弦出了问题，想要殖民月球？
- 3. They want to know whether the crabs will invade and leave , or permanently colonize the shallow areas .
- 他们希望了解蟹类是否会在入侵后离开，或者是永久地在这片浅水区域殖民。
- 4. You have all these ideas but they 'll colonize mars before you have a chance to implement half of them .
- 你拥有的很多想法在你能完成他们一半之前他们都能殖民火星了。
- 5. They figured our galaxy holds about 100 billion stars and that an intelligent exponentially-reproducing species could colonize the galaxy in just a few million years .
- 他们推算，我们的星系拥有约1千亿颗行星，一个拥有智慧且成指数繁殖的物种能够在仅数百万年内殖民星系。
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