colony

英文解釋：

名詞 colony:

1. 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
   同義詞：settlement
2. a group of animals of the same type living together
3. one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
   同義詞：dependency
5. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

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中英例句：

1. The fertile, fully developed female in a colony of social bees, ants, or termites.
   女王在群居的蜜蜂、螞蟻或白蟻群體中，可繁殖並發育完全的雌蟲
2. The first child of English parents born in America. She disappeared with other members of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island in Virginia.
   戴爾，維吉尼亞1587－1587？第一個出生在美國的英國女該，她和維吉尼亞的羅厄諾克島的失去殖民地的其他成員一起失蹤了
3. Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.
   英國受權代管德國在東非的前殖民地。
4. This country used to be a British colony in Asia.
   這個國家曾是英國在亞洲的殖民地。