This country used to be a British colony in Asia. 这个国家曾是英国在亚洲的殖民地。
Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa. 英国受权代管德国在东非的前殖民地.
The first child of English parents born in America. She disappeared with other members of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island in Virginia. 戴尔,弗吉尼亚1587-1587?第一个出生在美国的英国女该,她和弗吉尼亚的罗厄诺克岛的失去殖民地的其他成员一起失踪了
colony
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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
<noun.group> the American colony in Paris
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
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one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
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a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
<noun.location> a nudist colony an artists' colony
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
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(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
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Colony \Col"o*ny\ (k[o^]l"[-o]*n[y^]), n.; pl. {Colonies} (k[o^]l"[-o]*n[i^]z). [L. colonia, fr. colonus farmer, fr. colere to cultivate, dwell: cf. F. colonie. Cf. {Culture}.] 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. --Ames.
2. The district or country colonized; a settlement.
3. a territory subject to the ruling governmental authority of another country and not a part of the ruling country. [PJC]
4. A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
5. (Nat. Hist.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
6. (Bot.) A cell family or group of common origin, mostly of unicellular organisms, esp. among the lower alg[ae]. They may adhere in chains or groups, or be held together by a gelatinous envelope. [PJC]
7. (Zo["o]l.) A cluster or aggregation of zooids of any compound animal, as in the corals, hydroids, certain tunicates, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
8. (Zo["o]l.) A community of social insects, as ants, bees, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. (Microbiology) a group of microorganisms originating as the descendents of one individual cell, growing on a gelled growth medium, as of gelatin or agar; especially, such a group that has grown to a sufficient number to be visible to the naked eye. [PJC]
Tens of thousands of the colony's residents concerned about Communist control have sought permission to move out.
That would hurt growth prospects for the colony. So, where will the equity market go from here?
This British colony is finding it ever harder to retain its best and brightest people as the date for Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty draws nearer.
Australia's constitution was adopted in 1901 when the country, a former British colony, became an independent federation.
For now, because of the Gibraltar government's rejection of anything smacking of a Spanish takeover, there is a lull in negotiations between Spain and Britain on the colony's future.
You wonder if you're an American colony.
Brokers and analysts in the British colony loudly criticized the announced issues, saying they would allow key shareholders to maintain controlling stakes without correspondingly large investments.
The colony's trade account in the first 11 months swung to a deficit of HK$268 million from a surplus of HK$5.67 billion a year earlier.
Tales of pirate attacks off the coast of Thailand and the hazards of crossing long stretches of open sea to reach the Philippines are further reasons for charting a course to the British colony.
And closer to home, a traveler starting in Hong Kong won't find one, despite the loaded jumbo jets flying between the British colony and Taipei and despite the fact that Hong Kong visitors are Taiwan's third-largest inbound group.
Beyond conventional services, three cellular-phone operators and 29 radio-pager companies operate in the British colony, and later this year four additional vendors are expected to introduce a new generation of mobile cordless phones, or CT2s.
For Chan, a 46-year-old, native-born Hong Kong Chinese who speaks flawless British-accented English, the Beijing crackdown and its impact on the colony have presented the greatest challenge of his career and personal life.
At least 90 among thousands of Vietnamese boat people who flooded this colony's shores in recent months have asked to be returned home, a government spokeswoman said Thursday.
Eritrea, a former Italian colony on the Red Sea, was administered by Britain from World War II until 1952 when it was federated with Ethiopia under a United Nations resolution.
About 550,000 residents of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago are unlikely to be independent soon.
France's President Francois Mitterrand asked President Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders Tuesday to help end the fighting in this former French colony, said Mitterrand spokesman Hubert Vedrine.
The upshot is that more will go to Britain directly from Vietnam, while the British quota from their own colony remains at 468 over the two years beginning last May.
The government regards Chinese residents of Hong Kong as Chinese citizens, even though Britain will not return the colony to China until 1997.
It was Wilson's first visit to Beijing since China violently crushed pro-democracy protests in June, badly shaking the confidence of Hong Kong residents about their future after Britain hands the colony back to China in 1997.
In a few years, developers predict, many of the honky-tonks in the Wanchai waterfront area will be memories, driven away by dwindling business, higher rentals and the popularity of classier nightspots elsewhere in this British colony.
Sir David Trench, governor and commander-in-chief of the British colony of Hong Kong from 1964 to 1971, has died at age 73.
The move has sparked fears in the colony of a flood of illegal immigrants.
Two armed convicts fled a high-security prison colony in a bus after seizing eight hostages, but police killed one of the men and wounded the other, and all captives were released unharmed, Tass said Thursday.
In the documentary, translator Carmen Proetta said she saw the shootings from her apartment window in the British colony that borders Spain.
The king and queen arrived in Washington on Sunday to participate in events around the country marking the 350th anniversary of the first Swedish colony in America.
Stanley Ho, who has investments in Hong Kong and operates casinos in the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, says the U.N. idea came to him in a dream.
Cuba, a former Spanish colony, has 11 million people.
Wildlife experts say finding any albino animal colony the size of Marionville's is rare.
The colony's legislature voted 20-6 today to ask China to change the law before 1997.
Baker leaves Sunday to attend indepndence ceremonies in Namibia, a former South African colony.