colony的中文翻譯是什麼意思
colony
n. 殖民地; 聚居人群; 群體; (美國獨立前的)北美十三州
colony的柯林斯釋義
N-COUNT殖民地
A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.
In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing...
在北非的一些前法屬殖民地國家，反法情緒日益增長。
Puerto Rico, though it calls itself a Commonwealth, is really a self-governing American colony.
波多黎各盡管自稱共和國，但實際上是有自治權的美國殖民地。
N-COUNT(某一類人的)聚居地，聚居區
You can refer to a place where a particular group of people lives as a particular kind of colony .
In 1932, he established a school and artists' colony in Stone City, Iowa.
1932年，他在艾奧瓦州的石頭城建立了一所學校，那兒成了藝術家的聚居地。
...a penal colony.
罪犯流放地
N-PLURAL(統稱)英屬殖民地
The colonies means all the countries that used to be British colonies.
Many of our troops and officers were scattered around the world in the service of His Majesty in the colonies.
我們的很多部隊和軍官分駐世界各地的英屬殖民地，為英王效力。
N-PLURAL(美國獨立前的)北美十三州
The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States.
On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
獨立戰爭前夕，北美十三州每年生產3萬噸生鐵。
N-COUNT(鳥、昆蟲或動物的)群體，叢集，群落
A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together.
The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds...
設得蘭群島以其眾多的海鳥而聞名。
The caterpillars feed in large colonies.
毛毛蟲總是成群進食。
colony的英文釋義
Noun
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的場景例句
All the bees in the colony are genetically related.
同一群體的蜜蜂都有親緣關係.
The ability of one colony to support another in the event of war was limited.
一個殖民地的能力,以支援在戰爭中又是有限的.
The increased immigration strengthened the colony.
移民的增加鞏固了這個殖民地.
So he changed the Governor's vest to the colony.
於是他就換了總督的馬甲,去了殖民地.
But how does a colony make such adjustments if no one's in charge?
但是,如果蟻群中沒有任何集權的負責工,它們又如何做出這種戰略上的調整?