Colony

(noun.) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together.

(noun.) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell.

(noun.) 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; 'the American colony in Paris'.

(noun.) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.

(noun.) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; 'a nudist colony'; 'an artists' colony'.

(noun.) one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States.

手打:柴门霍夫

• The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The men and women in the Cave Colony suddenly found that one bright-eyed young fellow, with a little straighter forehead than the others, was beating them all at hunting. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• His loss is deeply felt in the flourishing colony. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There is plenty of room yet; for my colony, in spite of its forty years, is only yet in its infancy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• But allowing the colony security to be perfectly good, ?100, payable fifteen years hence, for example, in a country where interest is at six per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Its principal object was to prevent the search of the colony ships, which carried on a contraband trade with the Spanish Main. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But being neglected by Sweden, it was soon swallowed up by the Dutch colony of New York, which again, in 1674, fell under the dominion of the English. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is rather for the manufactured than for the rude produce of Europe, that the colony trade opens a new market. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I should like to take a great deal of land, and drain it, and make a little colony, where everybody should work, and all the work should be done well. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I have never know'd her to be lone and lorn, for a single minute, not even when the colony was all afore us, and we was new to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• To satisfy them in some measure, therefore, they frequently proposed to send out a new colony. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The young couple had a house near Berkeley Square and a small villa at Roehampton, among the banking colony there. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The dominant northern colony was Massachusetts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Among the oldest of these settlements was the colony of Virginia, the name of which commemorates Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Agriculture is the proper business of all new colonies; a business which the cheapness of land renders more advantageous than any other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There is also every reason to believe that the French colonists in Maryland and Canada let no great time elapse before importing tables and equipment into those colonies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It is true Carthagena is in America, but as remote from the northern colonies as if it had been in Europe. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The Roman colonies furnished occasionally both the one and the other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• That of England contributed as little towards effectuating the establishment of some of its most important colonies in North America. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And they may believe you never will exercise it in the colonies any more than in Ireland, unless on some very extraordinary occasion. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There was a rapid development of plantations and proprietary colonies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In all European colonies, the culture of the sugar-cane is carried on by negro slaves. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Gold and silver, therefore, very seldom appear in the commerce between Great Britain and the tobacco colonies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The Honourable Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, at that time governor of one of the Australian colonies. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Such have been the general outlines of the policy of the different European nations with regard to their colonies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Both Ireland and the colonies, indeed, would be subjected to heavier taxes than any which they at present pay. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Here we note it simply as an added factor in the heterogeneous mixture of the British Colonies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Unjust, however, as such prohibitions may be, they have not hitherto been very hurtful to the colonies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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