col.o.ny
colony的音标和读音:
DJ音标发音: [ˈkɔləni:]
KK音标发音: [ˈkɑləni]
colony的词性:
n.(名词)
1. A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country.
侨民:定居在异乡的一组侨民或他们的后代,仍从属于其祖国或同其祖国有密切关系
2. A territory thus settled.
侨居地:这样定居的地区
3. Abbr. colA region politically controlled by a distant country; a dependency.
缩写 col殖民地:政治上被一个远方国家控制的地区;属地
4. A group of people with the same interests or ethnic origin concentrated in a particular area:
聚居:有着相同利益或种族血统的一组人,聚集在一个特殊的地区:
the American colony in Paris.
巴黎的美国人聚居区
5. The area occupied by such a group.
聚居地:被这样的群体占据的地区
6. A group of people who have been institutionalized in a relatively remote area:
隔离群:被送到一个相对偏僻的地方作专门治疗的一群人:
an island penal colony.
一个岛的流放群体
7. Ecology A group of the same kind of animals, plants, or one-celled organisms living or growing together.
【生态学】 群体:一群生活或生长在一起的同种动物、植物或单细胞有机体
8. Microbiology A visible growth of microorganisms, usually in a solid or semisolid nutrient medium.
【微生物学】 一种可看得见的微生物的发育生长,通常在固体或半固体的营养媒质中
colony的词源:
9. Middle English colonie
中古英语 colonie
10. from Latin col?nia
源自 拉丁语 col?nia
11. from col?nus [settler]
源自 col?nus [定居者]
12. from colere [to cultivate] * see k wel- 1
源自 colere [栽培] *参见 k wel- 1