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colonizer

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

殖民者,殖民主义者,殖民地者,殖民国

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v.有主动词 verb
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    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

  • I had no new desk to colonize with my favorite knick-knacks and photos, and I still don’t know what the best office lunch spots are.

  • The pace at which he envisions these happening in order to make it possible to colonize Mars with a continuous human population requires the kind of rapid recycling and reflying of Super Heavy he described today with this proposed new landing method.

  • The question for visionary artists, innovative toy makers, and responsible parents is how to avoid cultural imperatives that colonize the future.

  • Futurists often say that these visions “colonize the future,” analogous to the colonization of continents belonging to other peoples.

  • They’re now colonizing the TikTok Wild West, and in 2021 the app is fated to evolve into a full-on business model.

  • Russia is of course the colonizer and there was a sort of “mental revolution” against Russian power.

  • When it came to Haiti, France was first a brutal colonizer, and then a usurious bully.

  • We have not spoken of the Chancellor as an argonaut, of the Chancellor as a colonizer.

  • Captain John Smith, soldier, colonizer and Virginian planter, writing in 1606 describes two sorts of wild grapes.

  • The notion, so widely current in this country, that Spain "failed" as a colonizer, arises from a faulty method.

  • Roberval, French colonizer, 82;commissioned viceroy and lieutenant-general of Canada, 82.

  • With this inglorious departure ends the career of the first great French colonizer.