生物的進駐：住滿一塊地方
同一個畫面，把「政治」和「打算」拿掉，只留下「從外面來、住下來、擴散到滿」。主角換成螞蟻、雜草、海鳥或細菌，所以這裡沒有誰對誰錯，只是描述發生了什麼。
verb · B2
If animals, plants or tiny living things colonize a place, large numbers of them move into it and start living and growing there.
（動植物）大量進駐繁衍
核心畫面
One way to hold colonize: a group arrives in a place that already belongs to someone, settles down, spreads out, and ends up running it. Three actions live inside that picture — coming in from outside, staying and multiplying, and taking charge. Each sense leans on a different part of it. The taking-charge part is the heaviest, and it is why the word so often carries a complaint.
「colonize」可以想成這樣一個畫面：一群外來者進到一塊已經有人、或已經有生物的地方，住下來、擴散開，最後變成那…更多收起
「colonize」可以想成這樣一個畫面：一群外來者進到一塊已經有人、或已經有生物的地方，住下來、擴散開，最後變成那裡當家的一方。畫面裡有三個動作：從外面進來、留下來繁衍、把主導權拿走。不同的意思各自偏重其中一塊。權力那一塊最重，也是這個字常帶著批評語氣的原因。From the word’s history
The word runs back through colony to Latin colonus, a farmer or settler, and colonia, the place where settlers live. The ending -ize means to make into. So the shape of the word is: to make a place into a settlers' place.
這個字往回走是 colony（殖民地），再往回是拉丁文 colōnus（耕種、定居的人）和 colōnia（移居者住的地方）。字尾 -ize 的意思是「使…變成」。所以字面就是「把一塊地方變成移居者的地盤」，跟今天的核心畫面正好對得上。
Wiktionary etymology tree supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:494113846:28297): Latin colō > colōnus > colōnia > English colony; suffix -ize via Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω, Late Latin -izō.
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Also in this word
verb · B2
To take political control of a place that is not your own country, and send your own people there to live, work and run it.
殖民
verb · C1
To move into something that belongs to a person or group with less power — their ideas, their experiences, their space or their movement — and run it on your own terms.
侵入並據為己有