英英释义
colony
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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
同义词： settlement
- a group of animals of the same type living together
- one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
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a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
同义词： dependency
- (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
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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
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
Colonies /ˈkɒlənɪz/
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N-PLURAL the subject territories formerly in the British Empire 以前大英帝国的管辖领土 (习语the Colonies) [英国英语]
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing.
在法国的各前北非殖民地，反法情绪正在增长。
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Towns in the Northern colonies were centralized and compact.
北方殖民地的城镇是集中而紧凑的。
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They used English ships to transport goods to non-British colonies.
他们用英国船只把货物运送到非英属殖民地。
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They found it easy to settle in a country that, until seventeen seventy-six, was a collection of British colonies.
VOA: special.2010.05.20
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I think if you can imagine of the many, many,many colonies there were, that would have been the usual arrangement.
如果你们能想象,那里有无数的殖民地,这种情况一般是惯例
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So that is not territory that you can build colonies; you've got powerful empires to deal with.
因此在那里,你要面临波斯帝国的强权,当然不适宜建立希腊殖民地
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