colony

noun

1. 殖民地
   a country or an area that is governed by people from another, more powerful, country
   1. former British colonies
      前英国殖民地
2. 殖民地定居者群体
   a group of people who go to live permanently in a colony
3. （来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群
   a group of people from the same place or with the same work or interests who live in a particular city or country or who live together
   1. the American colony in Paris
      聚居巴黎的美国侨民
   2. an artists' colony
      聚居的艺术家
4. （雇主或机构设立的）职工城，职工居住区
   a small town set up by an employer or an organization for its workers
5. （同地生长的植物或动物）群，群体，集落
   a group of plants or animals that live together or grow in the same place
   1. a colony of ants
      蚁群
   2. a bird colony
      鸟群

1. N-COUNT 殖民地
   A colony is a country which is controlled by a more powerful country.
   1. In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing...
      在北非的一些前法属殖民地国家，反法情绪日益增长。
   2. Puerto Rico, though it calls itself a Commonwealth, is really a self-governing American colony.
      波多黎各尽管自称共和国，但实际上是有自治权的美国殖民地。
2. N-COUNT (某一类人的)聚居地，聚居区
   You can refer to a place where a particular group of people lives as a particular kind of colony .
   1. In 1932, he established a school and artists' colony in Stone City, Iowa.
      1932年，他在艾奥瓦州的石头城创建了一所学校，那儿成了艺术家的聚居地。
   2. ...a penal colony.
      罪犯流放地
   3. ...industrial colonies.
      工业聚集区
3. N-PLURAL (统称)英属殖民地
   The colonies means all the countries that used to be British colonies.
   1. Many of our troops and officers were scattered around the world in the service of His Majesty in the colonies.
      我们的很多部队和军官分驻世界各地的英属殖民地，为英王效力。
4. N-PLURAL (美国独立前的)北美十三州
   The colonies means the 13 British colonies in North America which formed the original United States.
   1. On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
      独立战争前夕，北美十三州每年生产3万吨生铁。
5. N-COUNT (鸟、昆虫或动物的)群体，集群，群落
   A colony of birds, insects, or animals is a group of them that live together.
   1. The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds...
      设得兰群岛以其众多的海鸟而闻名。
   2. The caterpillars feed in large colonies.
      毛毛虫总是成群进食。

1. In France's former North African colonies, anti-French feeling is growing
   在北非的一些前法属殖民地国家，反法情绪日益增长。
2. Puerto Rico, though it calls itself a Commonwealth, is really a self-governing American colony.
   波多黎各尽管自称共和国，但实际上是有自治权的美国殖民地。
3. In 1932, he established a school and artists 'colony in Stone City, Iowa.
   1932年，他在艾奥瓦州的石头城创建了一所学校，那儿成了艺术家的聚居地。
4. Many of our troops and officers were scattered around the world in the service of His Majesty in the colonies.
   我们的很多部队和军官分驻世界各地的英属殖民地，为英王效力。
5. On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
   独立战争前夕，北美十三州每年生产3万吨生铁。
6. The Shetlands are famed for their colonies of sea birds
   设得兰群岛以其众多的海鸟而闻名。
7. The caterpillars feed in large colonies.
   毛毛虫总是成群进食。
8. To confirm the diagnosis, the hospital laboratory must culture a colony of bacteria.
   为进一步确诊，医院实验室必须培养一个细菌菌落。
9. He said the move would definitely stem the haemorrhage of talent and enterprise from the colony.
   他表示这一举措势必会抑制殖民地人才和企业严重流失的现象。
10. Different animals in the colony had different manifestations of the disease
    在这一群体里，这种疾病在不同的动物身上有着不同的表现。
11. The newly-occupied Italian colony of Libya rose in revolt in 1914.
    意大利新占领的殖民地利比亚于1914年发生叛乱。
12. This island is a colony; however, in most matters, it is autonomous and receives no orders from the mother country.
    那个岛是个殖民地，然而在大多数问题上它享有自治权，可以不接受宗主国的命令。
13. Australia was originally a British colony.
    澳大利亚原来是英国的殖民地。
14. The immigrant colony is frequently nothing more than a transplanted village, for Americas actually has been colonized not by races or by nationalities, but by villages.
    移民侨居地往往不过是一个个迁移过来的村落，而美国实际上不是被一些种族和民族而是被一些村落拓殖起来的。
15. A colony of termites invaded the new building.
    一群白蚁侵袭了新大楼。
16. In response to this phenomenon, this paper describes the principle of ant colony algorithm and algorithm implementation process.
    针对这个现象，本文首先介绍了蚁群算法的原理及算法实现过程。
17. The colony was bureaucratized by a corrupt official.
    这个殖民地被一个败坏的官员给官僚化了。
18. A hybrid algorithm combining ant colony system with multi-choice Knapsack problem was proposed.
    提出了一种蚁群系统与多选择背包问题融合的算法。
19. But researchers say they do not know if this virus causes a colony to collapse.
    但是研究者说他们不知道是否是这些病毒引起了蜂群的崩溃。
20. Based on the ant colony optimization idea, a new algorithm for continuous optimization problem is presented.
    对于连续优化问题，提出了基于蚁群算法思想的求解算法，并与网格法作了比较。
21. They had thought that the new colony would be a paradise, but they were soon disillusioned.
    他们原以为新殖民地是个天堂，但不久他们便从这幻想中觉醒了。
22. She's been the instrument to preserve this colony from disaster.
    她成了保护这块殖民地的工具了。
23. This paper mainly integrated ant colony algorithm, genetic operation and differential evolution algorithm's advantages.
    主要综合了蚁群算法、遗传算法、差异演化算法三者优点。
24. The coloring problem of graph theory is combined with an improved ant colony algorithm to plan optimally the overhaul.
    在优化的过程中采用了改进的蚁群算法，并结合了图论中的图着色问题。
25. After you have visited the moon, you visit the Mars Colony and the Venus Exploration Outpost.
    访问完月球之后，你参观了火星移居区和金星开发前哨基地。
26. China's status as a colony and semi-colony has given rise to a multitude of rural and urban unemployed.
    中国的殖民地和半殖民地的地位，造成了中国农村中和城市中的广大的失业人群。
27. Based on the thinking of ant pheromone diffusion and niche, multi-source diffusion ant colony genetic algorithm is presented.
    根据蚁群信息素扩散和小生境思想，提出了一种多源扩散蚁群遗传算法。
28. The people in the colony recovered their lost territory.
    殖民地的人民光复了失地。
29. Traditional ant colony algorithm is modified in the aspects of transition probability and dynamic updating mechanism sociohormone.
    从转移概率和信息素的动态更新机制两方面对传统蚁群算法进行了改进。
30. Have analysed the prejudice type existing in teacher's colony at present and behave;
    分析了当前教师群体中存在的偏见类型及表现；

  community colony commune【导航词义：社区，聚居区】

  community n. 社区

〔辨析〕指同住一地的人所构成的群体。

  colony n. 聚居区，聚居地

〔辨析〕指同住一地、具有某些相似处的群体，也指该群体的居住地。

  commune n. 群居团体，社区

〔辨析〕通常指共同生活、分享财物、分担职责的群体。

noun

1. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

2. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

3. a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
   1. the American colony in Paris

   Synonym:    settlement

4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

   Synonym:    dependency

5. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
   1. a nudist colony
   2. an artists' colony