| 单词 | colony |
| 释义 | colony (kɒləni ) Word forms: colonies 1. countable noun B2 A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country. He was born in Algeria, a former colony of France. ...the quantity of gold and silver raised in the Spanish colonies. 2. countable noun You can refer to a place where a particular group of people lives as a particular kind of colony. The pretty town of Cranbrook became a thriving artists' colony. ...a penal colony. ...industrial colonies. 3. plural noun [the NOUN] The colonies means all the countries that used to be British colonies. [British, old-fashioned] Many of our troops and officers were scattered around the world in the service of His Majesty in the colonies. 4. plural noun The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States. [US] On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year. 5. countable noun A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together. The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds. [+ of] The caterpillars feed in large colonies. Collocations: bee colony In 1910, there were a million bee colonies in Britain. The Sun (2010) A third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter for the fourth year in a row, a study showed. The Sun (2010) A mixture of chemicals found in modern pesticides may be killing bee colonies around the world. Times, Sunday Times (2011) His stables held the largest breeding colony of swallows in Suffolk. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The arrival of rats could put breeding colonies at risk. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Thousands of seal pups have died because of a lack of solid sea ice needed for breeding colonies. The Sun (2010) It climbs onto a section of living coral colony using the large number of tube feet on its oral surface and flexible body. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A typical coral colony form several thousand larvae per year to overcome the odds against formation of a new colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sure enough, the coral colonies start spawning around 8:20 p.m. Smithsonian But only a couple of young coral colonies release sacs. Smithsonian The band, which can range from a few millimeters to 10 centimeters wide, typically works its way from the base of the coral colony up to the coral branch tips. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After raising the ire of greedy grasshoppers, a well-meaning ant sets out to find a few would-be heroes willing to defend his colony. The Sun A well-meaning ant sets out to find a few heroes willing to defend his colony. The Sun The society was chartered to manage and defend the colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Also, larger colony members, most of which apparently never breed, defend the colony against heterospecific intruders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The militia had done well in preemptive offensive fighting, but was unable to defend the colony against raiding parties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Through the influence of disapproving in-laws, a husband leaves his family to take up a government post in a distant colony. The Times Literary Supplement The initial focus revolves around an exigent conflict with human separatists on a distant colony planet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their meals included sugar and tea imported from distant colonies. The Times Literary Supplement The capitol, the metropole, was the source of ostensibly enlightened policies imposed throughout the distant colonies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A lesson in the government of distant colonies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A penguin's search for his lost son leads him to uncover a threat to his entire colony. The Sun A single successful forager can recruit the entire colony to its food find. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because of the tight linkages between individuals, the entire colony can react on the aversive or alarm movements made by only a few individuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because bumblebees do not overwinter the entire colony, they are not obliged to stockpile honey, so are not useful as honey producers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The polyps are numerous and cover the entire colony except for the basal region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, they would establish a colony and be sent regular supplies until they could become totally selfsufficient. The Sun You must then, unusally, take them in teams of three to establish a colony. Times, Sunday Times We are not seeking to establish a colony or subjugate the will of the people. Times, Sunday Times If planted in a well drained, sheltered, but sunny spot they will establish a colony which will produce an endless supply of giant pink flowers for years to come. Times, Sunday Times Extreme temperatures, venomous insects, lack of water, dangerous tides and infertile land made it one of the hardest places on earth for early settlers to establish a colony. Times, Sunday Times These microbes form a colony that lives at the interface of fuel and water. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Colony ships are used to form colonies and trade ships are used to form trading posts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Larvae may be solitary or form a colony, mainly feeding on deciduous trees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This coral should be placed low in the tank, preferably on the substrate or on a low-lying rock, where the coral can form a colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These host plants always have hollow thorns or branches in which the ants can live and form a colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over the same period the number of honeybee colonies fell by 15,750, or 5 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Honeybee colonies remain present, though quieter, in winter. Times, Sunday Times Honeybee colonies - which pollinate crops as well as producing the food - are struggling to survive due to disease. The Sun Even managed honeybee colonies declined by 53 per cent between 1985 and 2005, as the low price of honey and a growing array of diseases put off would-be beekeepers. Times, Sunday Times Unlike honeybee colonies, wasp colonies last just one year. Times, Sunday Times While 25,000 people occupied the tower blocks, the trees housed a colony of bold, urban squirrels. Times, Sunday Times It houses a colony of tame grey herons and other waterfowl. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For staff and teaching faculty, housing colonies and a primary school was built to accommodate them with their families within the boundaries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has a mixture of commercial and residential property with shopping malls and housing colonies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Forest trees have evolved to live in cooperative, interdependent relationships, maintained by communication and a collective intelligence similar to an insect colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Spatial organization observed across social insect colonies can be considered an emergent property of a self-organized complex system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While red harvester ant colonies achieve their global goals using a decentralized system, not all insect colonies function this way. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Social insect colonies can be viewed as a self-organized network, in which interacting elements (i.e. nodes) communicate with each other. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Later research characterized some insect colonies as instances of collective intelligence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A large colony of sunlit creeping thistle seems to shimmer above the sward like a giant dragonfly. Times,Sunday Times A large colony can have 80,000 bees. Times, Sunday Times They growl all the time, and the resulting roar from a large colony can be heard far out to sea. Times, Sunday Times A large colony requires either many small nest chambers or a few larger ones. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over many years of growth, the branching rhizome can grow into a large colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If it could be extracted in sufficient quantities, it could supply a lunar colony with drinking water, and possibly even irrigation with which to grow crops. Times, Sunday Times The next flight will begin a lunar colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This tube could provide radiation shielding for a future underground lunar colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This lunar colony, which collapsed due to an environmental crisis, has become a refuge for sundogs, criminals, dissidents and wanderers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There's a gentoo penguin colony and an amphitheatre of icy mountains. Times, Sunday Times Visitors can tour the museum, buy souvenirs, post mail, and view the large gentoo penguin colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The area also has a lighthouse, beaches and a penguin colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Activities including kayaking in the harbor and visiting a nearby chinstrap penguin colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From just two breeding pairs in 1982, the penguin colony has grown to about 3,000 birds in recent years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the wind gusts towards you, you can savour the fishy aroma of a seabird colony: rich and repugnant. Times, Sunday Times Nearly 95% of seabirds are colonial, leading to the usage, seabird colony, sometimes called a rookery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a profound example, a seabird colony transfers considerable nitrogen into infertile soils, thereby altering plant growth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Consequently, rails would linger around in the seabird colony, be on the lookout for finches which had just cracked open an egg, chase these away, and consume the egg's contents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 So, to overcome this uncertainty, we created life-sized, replica seabird colonies, each with a known number of individuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The second day, we encounter a seal colony. Times, Sunday Times (2016) With the sun still out, we took to our kayaks and visited a seal colony. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The resident population on this island is 6,000 pairs of puffins and a large seal colony. Times, Sunday Times (2010) This allows him to set up a space colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although hypothetical at the present time, there are many proposals and speculations about the first space colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The conflict has directly affected every continent on earth, also nearly every space colony and lunar settlement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Would we be living in space colonies, wearing tinfoil and eating food in pill form? Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 殖民地 Japanese: 植民地 |
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