settlement

英['setlmənt]美['setlmənt]

n.
1.解决，和解，协议
2.移民
3.（尤指拓荒安家的）定居点
4.〈律〉金钱或财产的转让(契约)；转让的金钱或财产
5.结算，清偿

动　词：settle

同：	[n.] colonisation, colony, resolution, small town

A Quaker child in an inimical New England settlement is stoned by the other children.
一个教友会的孩子，在敌视他的新英格兰村落里，被别的孩子用石头打了。收藏
We had just been around some of the shocking sweatshops which were all too common in the “model settlement” of Shanghai.
我们刚从上海“模范租界”司空见惯的那些残酷得骇人听闻的血汗工厂里转了一圈。收藏
A divorce settlement.
离婚协议。收藏
The two countries made settlement by amicable arrangement
两国以友好调解解决争端。收藏
In case no settlement can be reached
若通过友好协商达不成协议收藏

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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
[同] colony, settlement
a community of people smaller than a town
[同] settlement, small town, village

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