• n. 殖民地；移民隊(duì)

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。

來自柯林斯例句

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)。

來自柯林斯例句

3. the American colony in Paris

聚居巴黎的美國僑民

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

4. the former governor of the colony

該殖民地的前總督

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

5. All the bees in the colony are genetically related.

同一群體的蜜蜂都有親緣關(guān)系.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》