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colonized

/kol-uh-nahyz/US // ˈkɒl əˌnaɪz //UK // (ˈkɒləˌnaɪz) //

被殖民的,被殖民,被殖民化的,殖民地

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    col·o·nized, col·o·niz·ing.

    • : to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
    • : to form a colony of: to colonize laborers in a mining region.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    col·o·nized, col·o·niz·ing.

    • : to form a colony: They went out to Australia to colonize.
    • : to settle in a colony.

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Examples

  • The outdoor gardens represent what the American landscape looked like before it was colonized.

  • If we don’t take care of what’s inside of us, the colonized world teaches us to become aggressive and hurt our own people.

  • Restaurants shut down dining rooms but shift out into the street, colonizing curbside parking for “streateries” and expanding into the digital realm through multiple delivery platforms.

  • They determined that random fluctuations in the rates at which the two bacterial species colonized the worms led to sizable differences in the worms’ fully assembled microbiomes.

  • The enormous cost of lifting material into space means that any serious effort to colonize the solar system will require us to rely on resources beyond our atmosphere.

  • In this historically loaded setting, Agbodjélou reclaims control for the colonized ‘other’ in the form of a masked female gaze.

  • For 300 years, Europeans and Americans colonized much of Africa and enslaved millions of its people.

  • Koreans have long chafed that the body of water is named after Japan, which colonized Korea in the early 20th century.

  • We were colonized by the English language, and in turn, colonized it.

  • They seek to live in harmony with the new planet they have colonized.

  • When the Penns colonized Pennsylvania, they claimed the 39th degree parallel as their southern boundary.

  • It was the next year colonized, and planted with the Cyprian vine and sugar cane of Sicily.

  • They had settled in the country, colonized it, and cleared it; in a word, they ended by regarding it as a new country.

  • The reason for this is that it was the Spaniards who colonized South America in the sixteenth century.

  • It was with very different plans and principles that North America was colonized.

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