[with obj.](of a country or its citizens) send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it 使…成为殖民地;使…殖民地化;开拓殖民地于(一地区);殖民于 the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy. 希腊人在西西里和意大利南部开拓殖民地。 ■come to settle among and establish political control over (the indigenous people of an area) 移民于殖民地 [as plural noun the colonized]an organization seeking to protect the rights of the newly colonized. 一个争取保护新开拓殖民地原居民权利的组织。 ■appropriate (a place or domain) for one's own use 将(场所,产业)据为己用 ■(Ecology)(of a plant or animal) establish itself in (an area) (生态)(植物,动物)建群,定居;移地发育