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殖民地
A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.
例句
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(shí)際上是有自治權(quán)的美國殖民地。
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(某一類人的)聚居地，聚居區(qū)
You can refer to a place where a particular group of people lives as a particular kind of colony .
例句
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創(chuàng)建了一所學(xué)校，那兒成了藝術(shù)家的聚居地。
...a penal colony.
罪犯流放地
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(統(tǒng)稱)英屬殖民地
The colonies means all the countries that used to be British colonies.
例句
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(duì)和軍官分駐世界各地的英屬殖民地，為英王效力。
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(美國獨(dú)立前的)北美十三州
The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States.
例句
On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭前夕，北美十三州每年生產(chǎn)3萬噸生鐵。
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(鳥、昆蟲或動(dòng)物的)群體，集群，群落
A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together.
例句
The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds...
設(shè)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(jìn)食。