托福每日一词：colonize
由于托福考试词汇量比较大，大家在备考的时候，很容易盲目的背诵，不能分清主次。尤其对于时间比较紧张的同学们来说，大家需要在短时间内快速的掌握重点的词汇内容。下面小编就为大家带来了每日一词的系列内容，帮助大家更好的背诵和理解重点词汇。
来源：新东方 《TOEFL终极4300》
常考释义
1.v. 把…变为殖民
If people colonize a foreign country, they go to live there and take control of it.
The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century.
英国第一次企图把爱尔兰变成殖民地是在12世纪。
2.v. (植物) 在…大量繁殖
When an area is colonized by a type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.
The area was then colonized by scrub.
那时该地区被大量低矮灌木所覆盖。
colonization n. 殖民活动，大量繁殖
3.v. (动物) 聚居于
When large numbers of animals colonize a place, they go to live there and make it their home.
Toads are colonizing the whole place.
蟾蜍正移居到这整个地区。
音频中例句
1.The area was colonized by the foreign countries.
这一地区曾为外国人的殖民地.
2.The ants are colonizing the tree.
一大批蚂蚁占据了这棵树。
3.The city was colonized by ginkgo trees.
这座城市到处都是银杏树。
练习
判断下列句子中colonize的意思。
1.The species that are first to colonize a site are those that produce abundant seed that is distributed successfully to new sites.
2.Human landscapes of lawns, fields, or flower beds provide settings with bare soil and a lack of competitors that are perfect habitats for colonization by opportunists.
3.Fladmark and other believe that the first human colonization of America occurredby boat along the Northwest Coast during the very late Ice Age.
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拓展
衍生词：
colony n. 殖民地
colonist n. 殖民者
练习答案
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