| 单词 | colonial |
| 释义 | colonial (kəloʊniəl ) Word forms: colonials 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Colonial means relating to countries that are colonies, or to colonialism. ...the 31st anniversary of Jamaica's independence from British colonial rule. ...the colonial civil service. 2. countable noun [usually plural] People who have lived for a long time in a colony but who belong to the colonizing country are sometimes referred to as colonials. ...a group of ex-colonials. 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A Colonial building or piece of furniture was built or made in a style that was popular in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [mainly US] ...the white colonial houses on the north side of the campus. I sat on the Colonial bench that was just to the left of the office doorway. Collocations: colonial era Courting in the colonial era involved the couple's whole social network. Christianity Today He was, he says, the 'last serving soldier to have served in the tail end of the colonial era'. Times, Sunday Times It also involves a project to clear landmines dating back to the colonial era. Times, Sunday Times The tactic was first used during the colonial era to reduce street crime. Times, Sunday Times Nowadays it feels like crass cultural insensitivity; an outmoded relic of a colonial era. Times,Sunday Times He was educated in local schools before gaining admin-strative experience in the colonial government. Times, Sunday Times By 1836 the colonial government regulated their tenure and established a licensing scheme. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Transportation of convicts ended in 1868 and in 1875 the gaol was handed back to the colonial government. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This incurred the displeasure of the colonial government. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Late in 1810, he joined a cavalry squadron, led by a former employer, set up with the purpose of fighting the colonial government. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the genie jumped from the page to the screen in the 20th century, the colonial legacy lingered. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other colonial legacy cases wait in the wings. Times, Sunday Times These materials offer opportunities to reassess colonial legacies and shape more inclusive criteria for greatness. The Times Literary Supplement What’s more, colonial legacies continue to shape trends in science today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He prescribes a summer of recuperation in the top room of a spooky colonial mansion they have rented for the holidays. Times, Sunday Times Then, though, he's off to his new colonial mansion, all pillars and staff, while mysterious sub-continental beasts chatter in the jungle garden gloom. Times, Sunday Times The mouldering colonial mansions looked as if they had been unoccupied since muttonchop whiskers went out of style. Times, Sunday Times Farm workers live crowded in ramshackle huts beside sprawling colonial mansions. Times, Sunday Times We drove past chaste-looking churches and quaint colonial mansions with yachts on the lawns. Times, Sunday Times The colonial past was 'legally extinct but ... not fully eviscerated'. The Times Literary Supplement The island has changed since he was last there, and the stories he hears from its inhabitants reveal a society struggling with its colonial past. The Times Literary Supplement The city still has faint echoes of its colonial past in the form of many grand, faded buildings with overly fussy facades. The Sun It's partly the vestigial tail of our colonial past wagging away and partly what every nation state tells itself proudly, usually on its birthday. Times, Sunday Times There are dark wooden antiques, silk lampshades, impressionistic paintings, grandmother clocks and a feeling of having stepped into the colonial past. Times, Sunday Times They can be regarded as worse than in the colonial period. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Of course, women had played a vital role in the lives of their sons and daughters throughout the colonial period. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (1993) Yet many of the laws remained in force through the colonial period without rousing much local opposition. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995) The intervention could change that by stirring resentment against the former colonial power. Times, Sunday Times An old colonial power needs to tread carefully. Times, Sunday Times This pre-emptive repression by the colonial power was to ethnically colour the subsequent anticolonial resistance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They did not fall under colonial power until the 1920s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was a feature of colonial mercantilism that colonies existed for the benefit of the colonial power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That autonomy flourished best under a colonial regime, he argues; the city's incorporation into the nation destroyed it. The Times Literary Supplement His emphasis on the success of the late colonial regime accords ill with his admission that reforms 'failed to produce many effects'. The Times Literary Supplement It however was not as cooperative in imposing the colonial regime as federal authorities would have liked. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Thus, quite a few writers received no encouragement from colonial publishers who were perhaps afraid of turning out radical writers critical of the colonial regime. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In effect, the letter was an open challenge to the very foundation of the colonial regime, and amounted to a declaration of war against it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Resistance to colonial rule was savagely put down. Times, Sunday Times For some on the receiving end of colonial rule, there could be mixed feelings. Times, Sunday Times Many enlisted, believing they would be granted independence once the war was over, but promises of an end to colonial rule proved hollow. Times, Sunday Times As commerce grew, they were joined by the wealthy sugar planters and merchants who profited under colonial rule. Times, Sunday Times The role of monks changed as a result of the introduction of colonial rule in the 19th century. Times, Sunday Times These first travel writers were the colonial settlers of the 1600s. Times, Sunday Times Under pressure from colonial settlers, he began to move his band westward. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1881 the last frontier was open to colonial settlers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Colonial settlers also adapted the name of the lake for a nearby village. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their music career would soon be interrupted by a new threat of colonial settlers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But there had been a significant change in colonial society. Times, Sunday Times Then their communities could be incorporated as such into ordinary colonial society. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These divisions in the cinema roughly represented the different strata existing in colonial society. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are over 300 memorials commemorating important members of 19th century colonial society, people who served the colony generally and parishioners from the 20th century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some of them slowly integrated into colonial society. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The hotel is minimalist, mixed with antiques and a colonial style. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Properties range from swish villas, to town houses and colonial style apartments. The Sun (2010) This reasonably priced little villa is in a quiet residential area and built in a French colonial style. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It's a dazzling colonial town, sumptuous and safe, elegant and — these days, at least — affluent. Times, Sunday Times The colonial town hall building was simple and the story of its construction has been bumpy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The colonial town had been designed for a population of only 10,000, and subsequent growth has created extensive infrastructural and environmental problems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The plots were generally assigned to the inhabitants based on their occupation or role in the colonial town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although most roads are in good shape, many streets are fairly narrow as would be expected for a historic colonial town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 殖民主义的 Japanese: 植民地の |
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