colony

英['k?l?n?] 美['kɑl?ni]

反義詞

復數(shù):?colonies;

1.【例】a colony of termites 一群白蟻
2.【助記】諧音靠了你---靠了你們這些殖民地,英國才成為當時的日不落帝國
3. colony 【克隆clone你】殖民地，僑居地，聚居地

colony 殖民地

來自PIE*kwel, 轉(zhuǎn)，耕作，詞源同cycle, culture. 本義為到新的地方開發(fā)，耕作，后指殖民，占領(lǐng)別人的土地。

colony: colony: [16] Etymologically, a colony is a ‘settled land’. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *qwel-, *qwol-, which signified ‘move around’ (it is the source of English cycle and wheel) and hence ‘move habitually in, settle in, inhabit’. One of the descendants of this base was Latin colere ‘inhabit, cultivate’. Thus someone who settled on a new piece of land and cultivated it was a colōnus, and the land he settled was his colōnia. (The German city of Cologne gets its name from Latin colōnia; in Roman times it was called Colōnia Agrippīna, the ‘settlement or colony of Agrippa’.)
=> cycle, wheel
colony (n.): late 14c., "ancient Roman settlement outside Italy," from Latin colonia "settled land, farm, landed estate," from colonus "husbandman, tenant farmer, settler in new land," from colere "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "move around" (source of Latin -cola "inhabitant;" see cycle (n.)). Also used by the Romans to translate Greek apoikia "people from home." Modern application dates from 1540s.

1. The newly-occupied Italian colony of Libya rose in revolt in 1914.: 意大利新占領(lǐng)的殖民地利比亞于1914年發(fā)生叛亂。

2. Different animals in the colony had different manifestations of the disease.: 在這一群體里，這種疾病在不同的動物身上有著不同的表現(xiàn)。

5. All the bees in the colony are genetically related.: 同一群體的蜜蜂都有親緣關(guān)系.