colonisation n. 殖民地化
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- IT IS a typical example of the colonisation of a new frontier.
这是一个新边疆殖民的典型例子。 - At no stage in Britain's colonisation of Nigeria did the British numbers reach such a figure.
就算在英国殖民期间,居住在尼日利亚的英国人也没有那么多。 - This mass conversion began to make Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan, afraid that the missionaries were paving the way for colonisation.
这种大规模的改宗开始使得日本当时的统治者丰臣秀吉(1536-1598)担心这些传教士们正为殖民化铺平道路。
colonisation[ noun ]
the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
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the British colonization of America