单词详解

n.

A. [U] [C] 解决，处理 (something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making)

There is no prospect of a settlement of the issue.

这个问题根本不可能获得解决。

B. 协议 (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)

The pressure is now on the unions to reach a settlement.

目前正对各工会施加压力，要他们达成协议。

C. [U] 安定，定居，移民 (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)

He took up his settlement in a new house. 他在新屋居住下来。

D. [C] 殖民地，新拓居地，租界，定居点 (an area where a group of families live together)

The British Empire had many settlements in the past. 过去大英帝国有许多殖民地

They hope to be able to patch together a temporary settlement.

他们希望能草草搭成一个临时安置区。

相关词组

urban settlement 城市居住区

More and more people come into and lived in the urban settlement.

越来越多的人涌进并定居在城市居住区。

相关单词

复数：settlements

名词：settler 移居者；殖民者

settling 安置；固定；沉淀物；移居