colonists

英 [ˈkɒlənɪsts]

美 [ˈkɑlənɪsts]

n.  殖民地定居者
colonist的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 殖民地开拓者;早期殖民地居民
  Colonistsare the people who start a colony or the people who are among the first to live in a particular colony.
  1. The apple was brought over here by the colonists when they came.
     苹果是早期殖民地开拓者来的时候带过来的。
  2. ...the early American colonists.
     早期的美洲殖民地开拓者

双语例句

• The colonists bartered calico for Indian land.
  殖民者以印花布交换印地安人的土地。
• Britain immigrated many colonists to the New World.
  英国把大量殖民者移居到了新大陆。
• The English colonists settled in America discontinued the tradition of Mothering Sunday because of lack of time.
  后来，在美国定居的英国殖民者由于缺少时间停止了这项传统。
• He helped the colonists build houses and grow food by learning from the local Indians.
  他帮助殖民地居民向当地印第安人学习建造房屋和种植庄稼。
• The colonists who had settled had left England because they felt denied of religious freedom.
  殖民者们由于感到被剥夺了宗教自由而离开了英格兰，到此地定居。
• The colonists massacred thousands of natives with brutal and callous force.
  殖民者惨绝人寰地屠杀了成千的土著居民。
• After World War II, the colonists abandoned the city, leaving thousands of European and Japanese-style buildings.
  二战后，殖民者走了，他们的数千座欧式、日式的建筑却被留了下来。
• An original settler or founder of a colony. The colonists displaced the natives.
  殖民者殖民地的原始定居者或创建者殖民者转移了本地居民。
• In the past, the French colonists who ruled Niger had a policy of government ownership of trees.
  过去，统治尼日尔的法国殖民者的政策是树木归政府所有。
• Other colonists held earlier ceremonies of thanks.
  其他殖民者在早些时候举行了感恩仪式。