Definition of colony in English:

colony

nounPlural colonies ˈkɒləniˈkɑləni

1A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.
殖民地
Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China
Example sentencesExamples
- After Portugal abandoned East Timor in 1975, Indonesia invaded and occupied the colony until rejected by the East Timorese voters in 1999.
- Korea was made a Japanese protectorate in 1905 and turned into a full colony of the growing Japanese empire in 1910.
- After losing this conflict, France relinquished to England control of its colonies, through the Treaty of Paris.
- Let us consider the two countries that the United States did occupy as colonies in the 20th century, Haiti and the Philippines.
- One of the poorest sixteen countries in the world, this former Portuguese colony has few natural resources to provide an acceptable living standard to its population.
- Britain obtained German colonies and full command of the European seas.
- Caesar, Augustus and their successors sought to ensure a steady supply of peasant soldiers for the legions by settling veterans in colonies outside Italy.
- Canberra used the conflict to seize control of German colonies, in particular German New Guinea, the Solomons and other islands.
- To all intents and purposes, Britain has assumed de facto control of the government of its former colony.
- Without the navy they couldn't control their colonies, thus losing them to other world powers.
- While Lisbon withdrew from Brazil in the mid-19th century, it continued to occupy its African colonies into the 1970s.
- When the British took formal control of the colony, the Dutch populace, about 8,000 people, struggled to retain their cultural identity.
- It controlled colonies from Spain to Turkey, from the Alps to the Sahara.
- The pace of political reform in the colony was sharply accelerated following a wave of disturbances precipitated by a rally of ex-soldiers in Accra in February 1948.
- They took, and kept, control of the colony - a truly astonishing achievement at the time.
- Spanish, English, and French troops were soon battling one another for control of the colony.
- The Seven Years War brought momentous British successes in the colonies and in Europe.
- It was also faced with the task of repatriating some three million homecoming troops, and another three million civilians from colonies and occupied territories to Japan.
- The attempt of the restored Spanish monarchy to regain control of her colonies by military force failed.
- Imperial self-assertion required first of all that Italy seize full control of the colonies it already possessed.
- In 1947 Britain lost control of India, the colony that British prime minister Disraeli had once called the ‘jewel in the crown of England’.
Synonyms
territory, possession, holding, dependency, province, dominion, protectorate, satellite (state), settlement, outpost
historical tributary, fief
1. 1.1 A group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors.
  （由最初的殖民者及其后裔和继承者组成的）殖民团，移民队
  the colony looked forward to fifty or more years of autonomy
  Example sentencesExamples
  The territories thus depopulated were then occupied by well organized colonies from Germany.
  The German empire was formed by the land-based expansion of Prussia; colonies were primarily settlements within Europe.
  As the colony settled down and developed, Clendinnen says, newer generations on both sides may have supposed Aboriginal life was always as it became in the early nineteenth century.
  Froude invites his readers on a luxurious journey through the clubs, gardens, terraces, and mansions of colonial outposts and white settler colonies.
  The historical comparison with other colonies of settlement provides only partial insight into its history.
  The accepted strategy of establishing colonies and controlling a lucrative trade to and from them never really worked for the Dutch in the Atlantic, at least not for long.
  German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned French and Dutch colonies in the region and they became the focus of Japanese attention.
  Ambitious space experts and political leaders planned lunar colonies, space stations and Mars expeditions.
2. 1.2the colonies All the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control.
  所有的原英国殖民地
  many poachers were exiled to the colonies
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the colonies, customs are even more difficult to define clearly.
  It was his angriest novel, an 844-page expose of the London society he returned to after a spell in the colonies.
  A number of tables and graphs purport to show the great improvements which the British brought to the colonies.
  Yet scandal in the colonies was also enacted on the global stage of British imperialism.
  By the mid-century much of the trade between the colonies was being carried in foreign ships, and largely to the benefit of foreign merchants.
  This famous hotel dates back to 1891, when the British frequented it en route to the colonies, and it retains an air of the grandeur of those days.
  I'm beginning to forget what's so bad about British rule in the colonies.
  Little wonder that many women were reluctant to migrate to the colonies, just as some of their 19th century descendants resisted moving westward.
  After the second world war Britain trawled the colonies, mostly for workers to do low-paid jobs.
  The British Iron Act of 1750 prohibited steel manufacture in the colonies.
  They lack the moral grit that sent so much of the flower of Oxbridge out to the colonies during the heyday of the British Empire.
  But those who came to the colonies to better themselves wanted to show off their success in the old ways.
  In fact, according to Sharp, colonial organizations had largely taken over control from the British in most of the colonies before a shot was fired.
  The stamp showed a world map with the colonies and islands of the British Empire highlighted in red.
  It was at this time that England was seeking to populate the colonies and Ireland's trouble gave them an opportunity to do so.
  This is the first modern study to look at drinking establishments in all the British mainland colonies instead of one city or colony.
  Exile him to the colonies or the continent instead.
  In the 17th century the colonies were seen in Britain as receptacles for a surplus population.
  And I don't think I need to spell out to you how easy it was for the British to transport that notion to the colonies.
  The collection includes many objects from the colonies that celebrate the greatness of the British Empire.
3. 1.3the coloniesBritish
  another term for Thirteen Colonies
  Example sentencesExamples
  In 1787, delegates of the colonies adopted the United States Constitution.
  The migration of religious sects to America made the colonies a natural breeding ground for religious freedom, but only up to a point.
  In the colonies American newspapers merged some of these terms with a careful classification of both racial differences and racial mixing.
  The war petered out, and the colonies gained their collective independence.
  At the outbreak of the fighting in North America it was widely expected that the colonies should be able to bear the brunt of it.
  When the first English colonists settled in America, the colonies looked pretty much like England, too.
  After all, the English have harbored equally ambivalent feelings ever since the 13 colonies became a nation.
  By 1774, Virginia was taking the lead as the colonies began to organize and formulate a unified response to British rule.
  Paine's articles during this period were often critical of British policy towards the colonies, but he did not yet advocate independence.
  He then fought with the British against the colonies in the American Revolution, catching the eye of General George Washington.
  While one of the main priorities of the colonies in the Americas was profit, the importance of Ireland was more strategic.
  The loss of the colonies in America deprived the government of a major source of income, and his troops mutinied.
  There was a single vision that united those who transformed thirteen British colonies into the United States of America.
  The practice persisted in the United States even after the colonies declared their independence.
  King George wanted to forcefully impose British mercantilism on the colonies.
  In the past generation a group of scholars has recast the history of the mainland colonies of British North America.
  The issue of military service as a requirement rather than an option has been around since the colonies were fighting for their independence from Great Britain.
  While most of the captives were eventually ransomed, the raid stood as a clear reminder to all the colonies and to Britain as well of how dangerous was frontier life.
  This occurred when practicing Anglicans were left behind in America as the British vacated the colonies, taking their priests with them.
  The goal in this is not to kill the people of South Carolina - after this war is over and Britain victorious, we must continue commerce with the colonies.
  Long before he advocated formal independence he was teaching both Americans and their imperial masters that the attempt to rule the colonies from Britain was a folly.
  Beagles arrived in the United States before the colonies had become united.
  The event, known as the Boston Tea Party, led to a series of British punitive measures which propelled the colonies towards war.
2A group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place.
一群（住在外国城市或国家的）同国籍（或种族）侨民
the British colony in New York
纽约的英国侨民。
Example sentencesExamples
- There was an important Italian colony in London, mostly of Florentines and Lucchese, dealing in silk and silk fabrics.
- The first and largest Irish colony in London could be found in St Giles in the Fields.
- He mobilized the elite of the American colony in Paris into a volunteer committee, whose first task was to help stranded tourists obtain money.
Synonyms
population, community
1. 2.1 A place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together.
  （有相同职业或兴趣的一群人的）聚居地，聚居区
  a nudist colony
  裸体主义者聚居区。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Life would be so much easier if we lived in a nudist colony, where the way we really looked meant more to others than the clothes we wore.
  In its first phase it was no more than a trading station, which most likely provided the base for a colony of foreign merchants.
  Using seldom-seen works and newly-uncovered information, Kurtz Lansing vividly captures the flavor of Old Lyme in the early years of the 20th century, when the house was the center of a vibrant artist colony.
  Soon, a whole host of artists began to settle in the tiny fishing port of Newlyn, forming the renowned artists' colony known as the 'Newlyn School'.
  During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme was the center of a leading Impressionist art colony.
  It is all that remains of the leper colony which once occupied the site.
  Synonyms
  community, association, commune, settlement, quarter, district, section, ghetto
2. 2.2South Asian A housing estate or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers.
  a large housing colony has already been built
  one of Jaipur's largest residential colonies
3Biology
A community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure.
〔生〕集群，群体
a colony of seals
海豹集群。
Example sentencesExamples
- More specifically, there is a whole colony of mice living under the floorboards in my bedroom.
- All you have to do is dive near any large seal colony and let the animals' natural curiosity and playfulness do the rest.
- Gradually, these grounded bats formed a captive colony that occupied a room in French's house for more than eight years.
- About 11 colonies of the plant are found in two locations in the northern area of the city of Scotts Valley, along with other locally rare plant species.
- The island holds an important breeding population of grey seals and is also of ornithological interest for its colonies of breeding sea birds.
- On their breeding grounds, they nest close to penguin colonies where they feed on the eggs and the young.
- One of his biggest successes has been helping to establish a new colony of flamingoes at Auckland Zoo.
- As time passes, more trees grow in the areas cleared by the ants, and the ant colony expands to occupy them.
- The queen bee eats the workers' eggs to retain her control over the colony.
- Nests are located on the open ground, in small colonies, typically close to the water.
- Thought to be extinct, a last colony of 18 animals was discovered in Wyoming in 1981, and now there are some 1,600 in the West.
- The colony's previous population of some 4,000 iguanas had plunged to about 1,500.
- Mountain beavers live in small colonies, occupying areas with plentiful green vegetation and cover.
- The agency has now submitted new evidence from other European countries which have successfully set up beaver colonies.
- Prairie dog support groups are trying to relocate whole colonies of the animals to get them away from hunters and out of the path of development, but it's a slow process.
- Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds.
- Although not often perceived as an endangered plant, juniper colonies right across Britain are in massive decline.
1. 3.1 A group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium.
  菌落
  Example sentencesExamples
  We tested this by restreaking cells from colonies grown for 15-96 hours.
  Antibiotic resistant strains develop when successive colonies of a bacterium grow in a medium where small amounts of antibiotic are evident.
  The cells from random spore colonies were examined microscopically.
  By growing a human stem cell colony from a single cell, researchers are one step closer to deriving a homogenous population of cells of a particular type.
  They can culture and maintain colonies of the stem cells.
  These colonies were grown overnight in liquid culture before DNA was prepared.
  Our models cover the process of forming a colony from a single cell.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia 'settlement, farm', from colonus 'settler, farmer', from colere 'cultivate'.

Definition of colony in US English:

colony

nounˈkälənēˈkɑləni

1A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
殖民地
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1947 Britain lost control of India, the colony that British prime minister Disraeli had once called the ‘jewel in the crown of England’.
- Canberra used the conflict to seize control of German colonies, in particular German New Guinea, the Solomons and other islands.
- After losing this conflict, France relinquished to England control of its colonies, through the Treaty of Paris.
- The attempt of the restored Spanish monarchy to regain control of her colonies by military force failed.
- Britain obtained German colonies and full command of the European seas.
- Spanish, English, and French troops were soon battling one another for control of the colony.
- It controlled colonies from Spain to Turkey, from the Alps to the Sahara.
- When the British took formal control of the colony, the Dutch populace, about 8,000 people, struggled to retain their cultural identity.
- One of the poorest sixteen countries in the world, this former Portuguese colony has few natural resources to provide an acceptable living standard to its population.
- Caesar, Augustus and their successors sought to ensure a steady supply of peasant soldiers for the legions by settling veterans in colonies outside Italy.
- To all intents and purposes, Britain has assumed de facto control of the government of its former colony.
- While Lisbon withdrew from Brazil in the mid-19th century, it continued to occupy its African colonies into the 1970s.
- They took, and kept, control of the colony - a truly astonishing achievement at the time.
- Let us consider the two countries that the United States did occupy as colonies in the 20th century, Haiti and the Philippines.
- The pace of political reform in the colony was sharply accelerated following a wave of disturbances precipitated by a rally of ex-soldiers in Accra in February 1948.
- Imperial self-assertion required first of all that Italy seize full control of the colonies it already possessed.
- Korea was made a Japanese protectorate in 1905 and turned into a full colony of the growing Japanese empire in 1910.
- The Seven Years War brought momentous British successes in the colonies and in Europe.
- After Portugal abandoned East Timor in 1975, Indonesia invaded and occupied the colony until rejected by the East Timorese voters in 1999.
- It was also faced with the task of repatriating some three million homecoming troops, and another three million civilians from colonies and occupied territories to Japan.
- Without the navy they couldn't control their colonies, thus losing them to other world powers.
Synonyms
territory, possession, holding, dependency, province, dominion, protectorate, satellite, satellite state, settlement, outpost
1. 1.1 A group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors.
  （由最初的殖民者及其后裔和继承者组成的）殖民团，移民队
  Example sentencesExamples
  The historical comparison with other colonies of settlement provides only partial insight into its history.
  German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned French and Dutch colonies in the region and they became the focus of Japanese attention.
  The accepted strategy of establishing colonies and controlling a lucrative trade to and from them never really worked for the Dutch in the Atlantic, at least not for long.
  The territories thus depopulated were then occupied by well organized colonies from Germany.
  Ambitious space experts and political leaders planned lunar colonies, space stations and Mars expeditions.
  As the colony settled down and developed, Clendinnen says, newer generations on both sides may have supposed Aboriginal life was always as it became in the early nineteenth century.
  The German empire was formed by the land-based expansion of Prussia; colonies were primarily settlements within Europe.
  Froude invites his readers on a luxurious journey through the clubs, gardens, terraces, and mansions of colonial outposts and white settler colonies.
2. 1.2the colonies All the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control.
  所有的原英国殖民地
  Example sentencesExamples
  But those who came to the colonies to better themselves wanted to show off their success in the old ways.
  The British Iron Act of 1750 prohibited steel manufacture in the colonies.
  In the colonies, customs are even more difficult to define clearly.
  By the mid-century much of the trade between the colonies was being carried in foreign ships, and largely to the benefit of foreign merchants.
  It was his angriest novel, an 844-page expose of the London society he returned to after a spell in the colonies.
  A number of tables and graphs purport to show the great improvements which the British brought to the colonies.
  This is the first modern study to look at drinking establishments in all the British mainland colonies instead of one city or colony.
  I'm beginning to forget what's so bad about British rule in the colonies.
  In fact, according to Sharp, colonial organizations had largely taken over control from the British in most of the colonies before a shot was fired.
  The stamp showed a world map with the colonies and islands of the British Empire highlighted in red.
  Exile him to the colonies or the continent instead.
  They lack the moral grit that sent so much of the flower of Oxbridge out to the colonies during the heyday of the British Empire.
  In the 17th century the colonies were seen in Britain as receptacles for a surplus population.
  The collection includes many objects from the colonies that celebrate the greatness of the British Empire.
  Little wonder that many women were reluctant to migrate to the colonies, just as some of their 19th century descendants resisted moving westward.
  This famous hotel dates back to 1891, when the British frequented it en route to the colonies, and it retains an air of the grandeur of those days.
  It was at this time that England was seeking to populate the colonies and Ireland's trouble gave them an opportunity to do so.
  Yet scandal in the colonies was also enacted on the global stage of British imperialism.
  After the second world war Britain trawled the colonies, mostly for workers to do low-paid jobs.
  And I don't think I need to spell out to you how easy it was for the British to transport that notion to the colonies.
3. 1.3the ColoniesBritish
  another term for Thirteen Colonies
  Example sentencesExamples
  In 1787, delegates of the colonies adopted the United States Constitution.
  While most of the captives were eventually ransomed, the raid stood as a clear reminder to all the colonies and to Britain as well of how dangerous was frontier life.
  By 1774, Virginia was taking the lead as the colonies began to organize and formulate a unified response to British rule.
  In the past generation a group of scholars has recast the history of the mainland colonies of British North America.
  The war petered out, and the colonies gained their collective independence.
  Long before he advocated formal independence he was teaching both Americans and their imperial masters that the attempt to rule the colonies from Britain was a folly.
  At the outbreak of the fighting in North America it was widely expected that the colonies should be able to bear the brunt of it.
  While one of the main priorities of the colonies in the Americas was profit, the importance of Ireland was more strategic.
  In the colonies American newspapers merged some of these terms with a careful classification of both racial differences and racial mixing.
  Beagles arrived in the United States before the colonies had become united.
  The event, known as the Boston Tea Party, led to a series of British punitive measures which propelled the colonies towards war.
  Paine's articles during this period were often critical of British policy towards the colonies, but he did not yet advocate independence.
  The issue of military service as a requirement rather than an option has been around since the colonies were fighting for their independence from Great Britain.
  The loss of the colonies in America deprived the government of a major source of income, and his troops mutinied.
  After all, the English have harbored equally ambivalent feelings ever since the 13 colonies became a nation.
  There was a single vision that united those who transformed thirteen British colonies into the United States of America.
  King George wanted to forcefully impose British mercantilism on the colonies.
  The practice persisted in the United States even after the colonies declared their independence.
  He then fought with the British against the colonies in the American Revolution, catching the eye of General George Washington.
  This occurred when practicing Anglicans were left behind in America as the British vacated the colonies, taking their priests with them.
  The migration of religious sects to America made the colonies a natural breeding ground for religious freedom, but only up to a point.
  When the first English colonists settled in America, the colonies looked pretty much like England, too.
  The goal in this is not to kill the people of South Carolina - after this war is over and Britain victorious, we must continue commerce with the colonies.
2A group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country.
一群（住在外国城市或国家的）同国籍（或种族）侨民
the British colony in New York
纽约的英国侨民。
Example sentencesExamples
- The first and largest Irish colony in London could be found in St Giles in the Fields.
- There was an important Italian colony in London, mostly of Florentines and Lucchese, dealing in silk and silk fabrics.
- He mobilized the elite of the American colony in Paris into a volunteer committee, whose first task was to help stranded tourists obtain money.
Synonyms
population, community
1. 2.1 A place where a group of people with similar interests live together.
  （有相同职业或兴趣的一群人的）聚居地，聚居区
  an artists' colony
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is all that remains of the leper colony which once occupied the site.
  Using seldom-seen works and newly-uncovered information, Kurtz Lansing vividly captures the flavor of Old Lyme in the early years of the 20th century, when the house was the center of a vibrant artist colony.
  Soon, a whole host of artists began to settle in the tiny fishing port of Newlyn, forming the renowned artists' colony known as the 'Newlyn School'.
  In its first phase it was no more than a trading station, which most likely provided the base for a colony of foreign merchants.
  During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme was the center of a leading Impressionist art colony.
  Life would be so much easier if we lived in a nudist colony, where the way we really looked meant more to others than the clothes we wore.
  Synonyms
  community, association, commune, settlement, quarter, district, section, ghetto
2. 2.2South Asian A housing development or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers.
  a large housing colony has already been built
  one of Jaipur's largest residential colonies
3Biology
A community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure.
〔生〕集群，群体
a colony of seals
海豹集群。
Example sentencesExamples
- All you have to do is dive near any large seal colony and let the animals' natural curiosity and playfulness do the rest.
- Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds.
- The agency has now submitted new evidence from other European countries which have successfully set up beaver colonies.
- One of his biggest successes has been helping to establish a new colony of flamingoes at Auckland Zoo.
- More specifically, there is a whole colony of mice living under the floorboards in my bedroom.
- The island holds an important breeding population of grey seals and is also of ornithological interest for its colonies of breeding sea birds.
- Although not often perceived as an endangered plant, juniper colonies right across Britain are in massive decline.
- Thought to be extinct, a last colony of 18 animals was discovered in Wyoming in 1981, and now there are some 1,600 in the West.
- The queen bee eats the workers' eggs to retain her control over the colony.
- On their breeding grounds, they nest close to penguin colonies where they feed on the eggs and the young.
- Nests are located on the open ground, in small colonies, typically close to the water.
- Gradually, these grounded bats formed a captive colony that occupied a room in French's house for more than eight years.
- About 11 colonies of the plant are found in two locations in the northern area of the city of Scotts Valley, along with other locally rare plant species.
- Mountain beavers live in small colonies, occupying areas with plentiful green vegetation and cover.
- The colony's previous population of some 4,000 iguanas had plunged to about 1,500.
- Prairie dog support groups are trying to relocate whole colonies of the animals to get them away from hunters and out of the path of development, but it's a slow process.
- As time passes, more trees grow in the areas cleared by the ants, and the ant colony expands to occupy them.
1. 3.1 A group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium.
  菌落
  Example sentencesExamples
  We tested this by restreaking cells from colonies grown for 15-96 hours.
  By growing a human stem cell colony from a single cell, researchers are one step closer to deriving a homogenous population of cells of a particular type.
  They can culture and maintain colonies of the stem cells.
  Our models cover the process of forming a colony from a single cell.
  These colonies were grown overnight in liquid culture before DNA was prepared.
  The cells from random spore colonies were examined microscopically.
  Antibiotic resistant strains develop when successive colonies of a bacterium grow in a medium where small amounts of antibiotic are evident.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’.

词汇	colony
释义	Definition of colony in English: colony nounPlural colonies ˈkɒləniˈkɑləni 1A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. 殖民地 Japanese forces overran the French colony of Indo-China Example sentencesExamples After Portugal abandoned East Timor in 1975, Indonesia invaded and occupied the colony until rejected by the East Timorese voters in 1999. Korea was made a Japanese protectorate in 1905 and turned into a full colony of the growing Japanese empire in 1910. After losing this conflict, France relinquished to England control of its colonies, through the Treaty of Paris. Let us consider the two countries that the United States did occupy as colonies in the 20th century, Haiti and the Philippines. One of the poorest sixteen countries in the world, this former Portuguese colony has few natural resources to provide an acceptable living standard to its population. Britain obtained German colonies and full command of the European seas. Caesar, Augustus and their successors sought to ensure a steady supply of peasant soldiers for the legions by settling veterans in colonies outside Italy. Canberra used the conflict to seize control of German colonies, in particular German New Guinea, the Solomons and other islands. To all intents and purposes, Britain has assumed de facto control of the government of its former colony. Without the navy they couldn't control their colonies, thus losing them to other world powers. While Lisbon withdrew from Brazil in the mid-19th century, it continued to occupy its African colonies into the 1970s. When the British took formal control of the colony, the Dutch populace, about 8,000 people, struggled to retain their cultural identity. It controlled colonies from Spain to Turkey, from the Alps to the Sahara. The pace of political reform in the colony was sharply accelerated following a wave of disturbances precipitated by a rally of ex-soldiers in Accra in February 1948. They took, and kept, control of the colony - a truly astonishing achievement at the time. Spanish, English, and French troops were soon battling one another for control of the colony. The Seven Years War brought momentous British successes in the colonies and in Europe. It was also faced with the task of repatriating some three million homecoming troops, and another three million civilians from colonies and occupied territories to Japan. The attempt of the restored Spanish monarchy to regain control of her colonies by military force failed. Imperial self-assertion required first of all that Italy seize full control of the colonies it already possessed. In 1947 Britain lost control of India, the colony that British prime minister Disraeli had once called the ‘jewel in the crown of England’. Synonyms territory, possession, holding, dependency, province, dominion, protectorate, satellite (state), settlement, outpost historical tributary, fief 1.1 A group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors. （由最初的殖民者及其后裔和继承者组成的）殖民团，移民队 the colony looked forward to fifty or more years of autonomy Example sentencesExamples The territories thus depopulated were then occupied by well organized colonies from Germany. The German empire was formed by the land-based expansion of Prussia; colonies were primarily settlements within Europe. As the colony settled down and developed, Clendinnen says, newer generations on both sides may have supposed Aboriginal life was always as it became in the early nineteenth century. Froude invites his readers on a luxurious journey through the clubs, gardens, terraces, and mansions of colonial outposts and white settler colonies. The historical comparison with other colonies of settlement provides only partial insight into its history. The accepted strategy of establishing colonies and controlling a lucrative trade to and from them never really worked for the Dutch in the Atlantic, at least not for long. German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned French and Dutch colonies in the region and they became the focus of Japanese attention. Ambitious space experts and political leaders planned lunar colonies, space stations and Mars expeditions. 1.2the colonies All the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control. 所有的原英国殖民地 many poachers were exiled to the colonies Example sentencesExamples In the colonies, customs are even more difficult to define clearly. It was his angriest novel, an 844-page expose of the London society he returned to after a spell in the colonies. A number of tables and graphs purport to show the great improvements which the British brought to the colonies. Yet scandal in the colonies was also enacted on the global stage of British imperialism. By the mid-century much of the trade between the colonies was being carried in foreign ships, and largely to the benefit of foreign merchants. This famous hotel dates back to 1891, when the British frequented it en route to the colonies, and it retains an air of the grandeur of those days. I'm beginning to forget what's so bad about British rule in the colonies. Little wonder that many women were reluctant to migrate to the colonies, just as some of their 19th century descendants resisted moving westward. After the second world war Britain trawled the colonies, mostly for workers to do low-paid jobs. The British Iron Act of 1750 prohibited steel manufacture in the colonies. They lack the moral grit that sent so much of the flower of Oxbridge out to the colonies during the heyday of the British Empire. But those who came to the colonies to better themselves wanted to show off their success in the old ways. In fact, according to Sharp, colonial organizations had largely taken over control from the British in most of the colonies before a shot was fired. The stamp showed a world map with the colonies and islands of the British Empire highlighted in red. It was at this time that England was seeking to populate the colonies and Ireland's trouble gave them an opportunity to do so. This is the first modern study to look at drinking establishments in all the British mainland colonies instead of one city or colony. Exile him to the colonies or the continent instead. In the 17th century the colonies were seen in Britain as receptacles for a surplus population. And I don't think I need to spell out to you how easy it was for the British to transport that notion to the colonies. The collection includes many objects from the colonies that celebrate the greatness of the British Empire. 1.3the coloniesBritish another term for Thirteen Colonies Example sentencesExamples In 1787, delegates of the colonies adopted the United States Constitution. The migration of religious sects to America made the colonies a natural breeding ground for religious freedom, but only up to a point. In the colonies American newspapers merged some of these terms with a careful classification of both racial differences and racial mixing. The war petered out, and the colonies gained their collective independence. At the outbreak of the fighting in North America it was widely expected that the colonies should be able to bear the brunt of it. When the first English colonists settled in America, the colonies looked pretty much like England, too. After all, the English have harbored equally ambivalent feelings ever since the 13 colonies became a nation. By 1774, Virginia was taking the lead as the colonies began to organize and formulate a unified response to British rule. Paine's articles during this period were often critical of British policy towards the colonies, but he did not yet advocate independence. He then fought with the British against the colonies in the American Revolution, catching the eye of General George Washington. While one of the main priorities of the colonies in the Americas was profit, the importance of Ireland was more strategic. The loss of the colonies in America deprived the government of a major source of income, and his troops mutinied. There was a single vision that united those who transformed thirteen British colonies into the United States of America. The practice persisted in the United States even after the colonies declared their independence. King George wanted to forcefully impose British mercantilism on the colonies. In the past generation a group of scholars has recast the history of the mainland colonies of British North America. The issue of military service as a requirement rather than an option has been around since the colonies were fighting for their independence from Great Britain. While most of the captives were eventually ransomed, the raid stood as a clear reminder to all the colonies and to Britain as well of how dangerous was frontier life. This occurred when practicing Anglicans were left behind in America as the British vacated the colonies, taking their priests with them. The goal in this is not to kill the people of South Carolina - after this war is over and Britain victorious, we must continue commerce with the colonies. Long before he advocated formal independence he was teaching both Americans and their imperial masters that the attempt to rule the colonies from Britain was a folly. Beagles arrived in the United States before the colonies had become united. The event, known as the Boston Tea Party, led to a series of British punitive measures which propelled the colonies towards war. 2A group of people of one nationality or race living in a foreign place. 一群（住在外国城市或国家的）同国籍（或种族）侨民 the British colony in New York 纽约的英国侨民。 Example sentencesExamples There was an important Italian colony in London, mostly of Florentines and Lucchese, dealing in silk and silk fabrics. The first and largest Irish colony in London could be found in St Giles in the Fields. He mobilized the elite of the American colony in Paris into a volunteer committee, whose first task was to help stranded tourists obtain money. Synonyms population, community 2.1 A place where a group of people with the same occupation or interest live together. （有相同职业或兴趣的一群人的）聚居地，聚居区 a nudist colony 裸体主义者聚居区。 Example sentencesExamples Life would be so much easier if we lived in a nudist colony, where the way we really looked meant more to others than the clothes we wore. In its first phase it was no more than a trading station, which most likely provided the base for a colony of foreign merchants. Using seldom-seen works and newly-uncovered information, Kurtz Lansing vividly captures the flavor of Old Lyme in the early years of the 20th century, when the house was the center of a vibrant artist colony. Soon, a whole host of artists began to settle in the tiny fishing port of Newlyn, forming the renowned artists' colony known as the 'Newlyn School'. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme was the center of a leading Impressionist art colony. It is all that remains of the leper colony which once occupied the site. Synonyms community, association, commune, settlement, quarter, district, section, ghetto 2.2South Asian A housing estate or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers. a large housing colony has already been built one of Jaipur's largest residential colonies 3Biology A community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure. 〔生〕集群，群体 a colony of seals 海豹集群。 Example sentencesExamples More specifically, there is a whole colony of mice living under the floorboards in my bedroom. All you have to do is dive near any large seal colony and let the animals' natural curiosity and playfulness do the rest. Gradually, these grounded bats formed a captive colony that occupied a room in French's house for more than eight years. About 11 colonies of the plant are found in two locations in the northern area of the city of Scotts Valley, along with other locally rare plant species. The island holds an important breeding population of grey seals and is also of ornithological interest for its colonies of breeding sea birds. On their breeding grounds, they nest close to penguin colonies where they feed on the eggs and the young. One of his biggest successes has been helping to establish a new colony of flamingoes at Auckland Zoo. As time passes, more trees grow in the areas cleared by the ants, and the ant colony expands to occupy them. The queen bee eats the workers' eggs to retain her control over the colony. Nests are located on the open ground, in small colonies, typically close to the water. Thought to be extinct, a last colony of 18 animals was discovered in Wyoming in 1981, and now there are some 1,600 in the West. The colony's previous population of some 4,000 iguanas had plunged to about 1,500. Mountain beavers live in small colonies, occupying areas with plentiful green vegetation and cover. The agency has now submitted new evidence from other European countries which have successfully set up beaver colonies. Prairie dog support groups are trying to relocate whole colonies of the animals to get them away from hunters and out of the path of development, but it's a slow process. Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds. Although not often perceived as an endangered plant, juniper colonies right across Britain are in massive decline. 3.1 A group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium. 菌落 Example sentencesExamples We tested this by restreaking cells from colonies grown for 15-96 hours. Antibiotic resistant strains develop when successive colonies of a bacterium grow in a medium where small amounts of antibiotic are evident. The cells from random spore colonies were examined microscopically. By growing a human stem cell colony from a single cell, researchers are one step closer to deriving a homogenous population of cells of a particular type. They can culture and maintain colonies of the stem cells. These colonies were grown overnight in liquid culture before DNA was prepared. Our models cover the process of forming a colony from a single cell. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia 'settlement, farm', from colonus 'settler, farmer', from colere 'cultivate'. Definition of colony in US English: colony nounˈkälənēˈkɑləni 1A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country. 殖民地 Example sentencesExamples In 1947 Britain lost control of India, the colony that British prime minister Disraeli had once called the ‘jewel in the crown of England’. Canberra used the conflict to seize control of German colonies, in particular German New Guinea, the Solomons and other islands. After losing this conflict, France relinquished to England control of its colonies, through the Treaty of Paris. The attempt of the restored Spanish monarchy to regain control of her colonies by military force failed. Britain obtained German colonies and full command of the European seas. Spanish, English, and French troops were soon battling one another for control of the colony. It controlled colonies from Spain to Turkey, from the Alps to the Sahara. When the British took formal control of the colony, the Dutch populace, about 8,000 people, struggled to retain their cultural identity. One of the poorest sixteen countries in the world, this former Portuguese colony has few natural resources to provide an acceptable living standard to its population. Caesar, Augustus and their successors sought to ensure a steady supply of peasant soldiers for the legions by settling veterans in colonies outside Italy. To all intents and purposes, Britain has assumed de facto control of the government of its former colony. While Lisbon withdrew from Brazil in the mid-19th century, it continued to occupy its African colonies into the 1970s. They took, and kept, control of the colony - a truly astonishing achievement at the time. Let us consider the two countries that the United States did occupy as colonies in the 20th century, Haiti and the Philippines. The pace of political reform in the colony was sharply accelerated following a wave of disturbances precipitated by a rally of ex-soldiers in Accra in February 1948. Imperial self-assertion required first of all that Italy seize full control of the colonies it already possessed. Korea was made a Japanese protectorate in 1905 and turned into a full colony of the growing Japanese empire in 1910. The Seven Years War brought momentous British successes in the colonies and in Europe. After Portugal abandoned East Timor in 1975, Indonesia invaded and occupied the colony until rejected by the East Timorese voters in 1999. It was also faced with the task of repatriating some three million homecoming troops, and another three million civilians from colonies and occupied territories to Japan. Without the navy they couldn't control their colonies, thus losing them to other world powers. Synonyms territory, possession, holding, dependency, province, dominion, protectorate, satellite, satellite state, settlement, outpost 1.1 A group of people living in a colony, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors. （由最初的殖民者及其后裔和继承者组成的）殖民团，移民队 Example sentencesExamples The historical comparison with other colonies of settlement provides only partial insight into its history. German success in Europe in 1940 had orphaned French and Dutch colonies in the region and they became the focus of Japanese attention. The accepted strategy of establishing colonies and controlling a lucrative trade to and from them never really worked for the Dutch in the Atlantic, at least not for long. The territories thus depopulated were then occupied by well organized colonies from Germany. Ambitious space experts and political leaders planned lunar colonies, space stations and Mars expeditions. As the colony settled down and developed, Clendinnen says, newer generations on both sides may have supposed Aboriginal life was always as it became in the early nineteenth century. The German empire was formed by the land-based expansion of Prussia; colonies were primarily settlements within Europe. Froude invites his readers on a luxurious journey through the clubs, gardens, terraces, and mansions of colonial outposts and white settler colonies. 1.2the colonies All the foreign countries or areas formerly under British political control. 所有的原英国殖民地 Example sentencesExamples But those who came to the colonies to better themselves wanted to show off their success in the old ways. The British Iron Act of 1750 prohibited steel manufacture in the colonies. In the colonies, customs are even more difficult to define clearly. By the mid-century much of the trade between the colonies was being carried in foreign ships, and largely to the benefit of foreign merchants. It was his angriest novel, an 844-page expose of the London society he returned to after a spell in the colonies. A number of tables and graphs purport to show the great improvements which the British brought to the colonies. This is the first modern study to look at drinking establishments in all the British mainland colonies instead of one city or colony. I'm beginning to forget what's so bad about British rule in the colonies. In fact, according to Sharp, colonial organizations had largely taken over control from the British in most of the colonies before a shot was fired. The stamp showed a world map with the colonies and islands of the British Empire highlighted in red. Exile him to the colonies or the continent instead. They lack the moral grit that sent so much of the flower of Oxbridge out to the colonies during the heyday of the British Empire. In the 17th century the colonies were seen in Britain as receptacles for a surplus population. The collection includes many objects from the colonies that celebrate the greatness of the British Empire. Little wonder that many women were reluctant to migrate to the colonies, just as some of their 19th century descendants resisted moving westward. This famous hotel dates back to 1891, when the British frequented it en route to the colonies, and it retains an air of the grandeur of those days. It was at this time that England was seeking to populate the colonies and Ireland's trouble gave them an opportunity to do so. Yet scandal in the colonies was also enacted on the global stage of British imperialism. After the second world war Britain trawled the colonies, mostly for workers to do low-paid jobs. And I don't think I need to spell out to you how easy it was for the British to transport that notion to the colonies. 1.3the ColoniesBritish another term for Thirteen Colonies Example sentencesExamples In 1787, delegates of the colonies adopted the United States Constitution. While most of the captives were eventually ransomed, the raid stood as a clear reminder to all the colonies and to Britain as well of how dangerous was frontier life. By 1774, Virginia was taking the lead as the colonies began to organize and formulate a unified response to British rule. In the past generation a group of scholars has recast the history of the mainland colonies of British North America. The war petered out, and the colonies gained their collective independence. Long before he advocated formal independence he was teaching both Americans and their imperial masters that the attempt to rule the colonies from Britain was a folly. At the outbreak of the fighting in North America it was widely expected that the colonies should be able to bear the brunt of it. While one of the main priorities of the colonies in the Americas was profit, the importance of Ireland was more strategic. In the colonies American newspapers merged some of these terms with a careful classification of both racial differences and racial mixing. Beagles arrived in the United States before the colonies had become united. The event, known as the Boston Tea Party, led to a series of British punitive measures which propelled the colonies towards war. Paine's articles during this period were often critical of British policy towards the colonies, but he did not yet advocate independence. The issue of military service as a requirement rather than an option has been around since the colonies were fighting for their independence from Great Britain. The loss of the colonies in America deprived the government of a major source of income, and his troops mutinied. After all, the English have harbored equally ambivalent feelings ever since the 13 colonies became a nation. There was a single vision that united those who transformed thirteen British colonies into the United States of America. King George wanted to forcefully impose British mercantilism on the colonies. The practice persisted in the United States even after the colonies declared their independence. He then fought with the British against the colonies in the American Revolution, catching the eye of General George Washington. This occurred when practicing Anglicans were left behind in America as the British vacated the colonies, taking their priests with them. The migration of religious sects to America made the colonies a natural breeding ground for religious freedom, but only up to a point. When the first English colonists settled in America, the colonies looked pretty much like England, too. The goal in this is not to kill the people of South Carolina - after this war is over and Britain victorious, we must continue commerce with the colonies. 2A group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country. 一群（住在外国城市或国家的）同国籍（或种族）侨民 the British colony in New York 纽约的英国侨民。 Example sentencesExamples The first and largest Irish colony in London could be found in St Giles in the Fields. There was an important Italian colony in London, mostly of Florentines and Lucchese, dealing in silk and silk fabrics. He mobilized the elite of the American colony in Paris into a volunteer committee, whose first task was to help stranded tourists obtain money. Synonyms population, community 2.1 A place where a group of people with similar interests live together. （有相同职业或兴趣的一群人的）聚居地，聚居区 an artists' colony Example sentencesExamples It is all that remains of the leper colony which once occupied the site. Using seldom-seen works and newly-uncovered information, Kurtz Lansing vividly captures the flavor of Old Lyme in the early years of the 20th century, when the house was the center of a vibrant artist colony. Soon, a whole host of artists began to settle in the tiny fishing port of Newlyn, forming the renowned artists' colony known as the 'Newlyn School'. In its first phase it was no more than a trading station, which most likely provided the base for a colony of foreign merchants. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme was the center of a leading Impressionist art colony. Life would be so much easier if we lived in a nudist colony, where the way we really looked meant more to others than the clothes we wore. Synonyms community, association, commune, settlement, quarter, district, section, ghetto 2.2South Asian A housing development or residential community, especially one originally constructed by an employer for its workers. a large housing colony has already been built one of Jaipur's largest residential colonies 3Biology A community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure. 〔生〕集群，群体 a colony of seals 海豹集群。 Example sentencesExamples All you have to do is dive near any large seal colony and let the animals' natural curiosity and playfulness do the rest. Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds. The agency has now submitted new evidence from other European countries which have successfully set up beaver colonies. One of his biggest successes has been helping to establish a new colony of flamingoes at Auckland Zoo. More specifically, there is a whole colony of mice living under the floorboards in my bedroom. The island holds an important breeding population of grey seals and is also of ornithological interest for its colonies of breeding sea birds. Although not often perceived as an endangered plant, juniper colonies right across Britain are in massive decline. Thought to be extinct, a last colony of 18 animals was discovered in Wyoming in 1981, and now there are some 1,600 in the West. The queen bee eats the workers' eggs to retain her control over the colony. On their breeding grounds, they nest close to penguin colonies where they feed on the eggs and the young. Nests are located on the open ground, in small colonies, typically close to the water. Gradually, these grounded bats formed a captive colony that occupied a room in French's house for more than eight years. About 11 colonies of the plant are found in two locations in the northern area of the city of Scotts Valley, along with other locally rare plant species. Mountain beavers live in small colonies, occupying areas with plentiful green vegetation and cover. The colony's previous population of some 4,000 iguanas had plunged to about 1,500. Prairie dog support groups are trying to relocate whole colonies of the animals to get them away from hunters and out of the path of development, but it's a slow process. As time passes, more trees grow in the areas cleared by the ants, and the ant colony expands to occupy them. 3.1 A group of fungi or bacteria grown from a single spore or cell on a culture medium. 菌落 Example sentencesExamples We tested this by restreaking cells from colonies grown for 15-96 hours. By growing a human stem cell colony from a single cell, researchers are one step closer to deriving a homogenous population of cells of a particular type. They can culture and maintain colonies of the stem cells. Our models cover the process of forming a colony from a single cell. These colonies were grown overnight in liquid culture before DNA was prepared. The cells from random spore colonies were examined microscopically. Antibiotic resistant strains develop when successive colonies of a bacterium grow in a medium where small amounts of antibiotic are evident. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a settlement formed mainly of retired soldiers, acting as a garrison in newly conquered territory in the Roman Empire): from Latin colonia ‘settlement, farm’, from colonus ‘settler, farmer’, from colere ‘cultivate’.
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