colony

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colony 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 殖民地, 移民队

[医] 菌(集)落, 菌丛; 移民区

英文释义

n. a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

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

n. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

n. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

colony 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 colony 在自然语境里怎么用：

Scientists have long assumed that queen transitions in naked mole rat colonies were always chaotic and violent.

—— Naked Mole Rats Usually Duke It Out to Choose Their Next Queen. But These Unusual Rodents May Be Capable of More Peaceful Transitions of Power

First, they increased the colony’s density by allowing the group to balloon in size to 39 animals.

—— Naked Mole Rats Usually Duke It Out to Choose Their Next Queen. But These Unusual Rodents May Be Capable of More Peaceful Transitions of Power

To find out, they spent six years observing a naked mole rat colony, known as the Amigos, in a laboratory.

—— Naked Mole Rats Usually Duke It Out to Choose Their Next Queen. But These Unusual Rodents May Be Capable of More Peaceful Transitions of Power

Since the 1960s, scientists have studied captive colonies in labs and zoos for their unusual living arrangements and their long, healthy lives.

—— Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully

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