colonisation
[,kɔlənai'zeiʃən]
- n. 定殖；殖民地化；集群现象
英英释义
- 1. the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies;
- "the British colonization of America"
考试真题
- The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
双语例句
- 1. IT IS a typical example of the colonisation of a new frontier.
- 这是一个新边疆殖民的典型例子.
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英文词源
- colonisation (n.)
- chiefly British English spelling of colonization; see also -ize.