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 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。
• Other colonists held earlier ceremonies of thanks.
  其他殖民者在早些时候举行了感恩仪式。
• Britain immigrated many colonists to the New World.
  英国把大量殖民者移居到了新大陆。
• 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。
• This harvest meal has become a symbol of cooperation and interaction between English colonists and Native Americans.
  1621年，普利茅斯殖民地的居民和当地印第安人一起庆祝丰收节，后来这一天被公认为感恩节的开始。这次丰收节也成为了英国殖民者和本地美洲人之间合作和互动的象征。
• France and England were two colonists during the19 centuries.
  在19世纪，法国和英国是一对殖民者。
• The colonists answered the attack by destroying the Indian tribes living along Virginia's coast.
  作为报复，殖民者毁坏了居住在弗吉尼亚海岸沿线的印第安人部落。
• The purpose of the colonies was to enrich the colonists and the Spanish realm.
  殖民地的目的就是要增加殖民者与西班牙王国的财富。
• Their land looked so unpromising that the colonists eventually gave most of it back.
  他们的土地看上去日后没什么用途，所以殖民者最终把大部分都归还给了他们。