1. For instance, islands often have not been colonized by large predators or are too small to hold feasible predator populations. 例如，岛屿通常没有大型食肉动物的殖民地，或者太小而无法容纳可行的食肉动物种群。
2. Recent evidence favors a rival to the long-standing theory that the Americas were colonized 11,000-12,000 years ago by people migrating south from Beringia along a midcontinental ice-free corridor. 最近的证据支持了一个与长期存在的理论对立的观点，该理论认为，在1.1万至1.2万年前，美洲是由从白令海峡沿中大陆无冰走廊向南迁移的人殖民的。
3. Bats had colonized the ruins. 蝙蝠聚居在这片废墟上。
4. The area was then colonized by scrub. 那时该地区被大量低矮灌木所覆盖。
5. The area was colonized by the Vikings. 这一地区曾沦为维京人的殖民地。
