英汉词典

colony 基本解释

• n. 殖民地；移民队

colony 词态变化

colony 中文词源

来自PIE*kwel, 转，耕作，词源同cycle, culture. 本义为到新的地方开发，耕作，后指殖民，占领别人的土地。

colony 英文词源

colony

colony: [16] Etymologically, a colony is a ‘settled land’. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *qwel-, *qwol-, which signified ‘move around’ (it is the source of English cycle and wheel) and hence ‘move habitually in, settle in, inhabit’. One of the descendants of this base was Latin colere ‘inhabit, cultivate’. Thus someone who settled on a new piece of land and cultivated it was a colōnus, and the land he settled was his colōnia. (The German city of Cologne gets its name from Latin colōnia; in Roman times it was called Colōnia Agrippīna, the ‘settlement or colony of Agrippa’.)
=> cycle, wheel

colony (n.)

late 14c., "ancient Roman settlement outside Italy," from Latin colonia "settled land, farm, landed estate," from colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler in new land," from colere "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "move around" (source of Latin -cola "inhabitant;" see cycle (n.)). Also used by the Romans to translate Greek apoikia "people from home." Modern application dates from 1540s.

colony 英文释义

1. a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

2. a group of animals of the same type living together

3. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

4. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

colony 双语例句

1. The newly-occupied Italian colony of Libya rose in revolt in 1914.

意大利新占领的殖民地利比亚于1914年发生叛乱。

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2. Different animals in the colony had different manifestations of the disease.

在这一群体里，这种疾病在不同的动物身上有着不同的表现。

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3. the American colony in Paris

聚居巴黎的美国侨民

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4. the former governor of the colony

该殖民地的前总督

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5. All the bees in the colony are genetically related.

同一群体的蜜蜂都有亲缘关系.

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colony 实用场景例句

former British colonies

前英国殖民地

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the American colony in Paris

聚居巴黎的美国侨民

牛津词典

an artists' colony

聚居的艺术家

牛津词典

a colony of ants

蚁群

牛津词典

a bird colony

鸟群

牛津词典

In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing...

在北非的一些前法属殖民地国家，反法情绪日益增长。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Puerto Rico, though it calls itself a Commonwealth, is really a self-governing American colony.

波多黎各尽管自称共和国，但实际上是有自治权的美国殖民地。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

In 1932, he established a school and artists' colony in Stone City, Iowa.

1932年，他在艾奥瓦州的石头城创建了一所学校，那儿成了艺术家的聚居地。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a penal colony.

罪犯流放地

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Many of our troops and officers were scattered around the world in the service of His Majesty in the colonies.

我们的很多部队和军官分驻世界各地的英属殖民地，为英王效力。

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On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.

独立战争前夕，北美十三州每年生产3万吨生铁。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds...

设得兰群岛以其众多的海鸟而闻名。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The caterpillars feed in large colonies.

毛毛虫总是成群进食。

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All the bees in the colony are genetically related.

同一群体的蜜蜂都有亲缘关系.

《简明英汉词典》

The ability of one colony to support another in the event of war was limited.

一个殖民地的能力,以支持在战争中又是有限的.

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The increased immigration strengthened the colony.

移民的增加巩固了这个殖民地.

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So he changed the Governor's vest to the colony.

于是他就换了总督的马甲,去了殖民地.

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But how does a colony make such adjustments if no one's in charge?

但是,如果蚁群中没有任何集权的负责工,它们又如何做出这种战略上的调整?

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The ant colony algorithm is a novel simulated evolutionary algorithm which shows many good properties.

蚁群算法是一种模拟进化算法,初步的研究表明该算法具有许多优良的性质.

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A colony of parabolic satellite antennas installed at the IBC.

位于IBC范围内放置卫星天线机组的位置.

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India, a former British colony, is now a fully independent country.

曾一度为英国殖民地的印度如今已是一个完全独立的国家.

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I became conscious of a stir and flutter in the Japanese Embassy and colony in London.

我觉察到,在伦敦的日本大使馆和日侨居住区中有骚动不安的情形.

辞典例句

Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.

该种生长物或群体, 如培养菌.

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And was dominated by British colony so old, english advantage is apparent.

而且被英国殖民统治了那么多年, 英语优势很明显.

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A colony of seals lay basking in the sun.

一群海豹躺着晒太阳.

《简明英汉词典》