• vt. 將…開拓為殖民地；移于殖民地；從他地非法把選民移入
• vi. 開拓殖民地；移居于殖民地

來自colony, 殖民，聚居。

colonize (v.)

1620s, "to settle with colonists," from stem of Latin colonus "tiller of the soil, farmer" (see colony); in sense "to make another place into a national dependency" without regard for settlement there by 1790s (such as in reference to French activity in Egypt or British work in India), and probably directly from colony.

No principle ought ever to be tolerated or acted upon, that does not proceed on the basis of India being considered as the temporary residence of a great British Establishment, for the good government of the country, upon steady and uniform principles, and of a large British factory, for the beneficial management of its trade, upon rules applicable to the state and manners of the country. [Henry Dundas, Chairman of the East-India Company, letter, April 2, 1800]

Related: Colonized; colonizing.

1. The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century.

英國最早嘗試在愛爾蘭開拓殖民地是在12世紀。

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2. First, upgrade your hull to level 15, then colonize a planet.

首先, 將自己的船升到第15級, 然后拓殖行星.

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3. It will not infect or colonize dead or dried plant tissue.

它不會傳染或寄居于死的或干的植體組織.

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4. Conclusions - Bacteria can colonize cardiac electrophysiological devices without clinical signs of infection.

結(jié)論 — 細菌可聚集在心臟電生理裝置而不出現(xiàn)感染表現(xiàn).

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5. Around 700 Arabs began to colonize East Africa.

公元700年阿拉伯人開始把東非變?yōu)橹趁竦?

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