1. The settlement of Africa by white people started 500 years ago.
    由白人进行的向非洲移民开始于500年前。

1. 沉降：建筑物或堤坝(土工建筑物)荷载通过基础、填方路基(路堤)或填方坝基(水坝)传递给地基,使天然土层原有的应力状态发生变化,即在基底压力的作用下,地基中产生了附加应力和竖向、侧向(或剪切)变形(deformation),导致建筑物或堤坝及其周边环境的沉降(settlement)和位移(displ

2. settlement的反义词

2. 交割：一般都必须经过下列数个阶段:(1)成交确认(confirmation)阶段,也就是由市场参加人确定交易的条件;(2)结算(clearance)阶段,也就是计算交易相对人经成交确认后所应负的权利义务;(3)交割(settlement)阶段,也就是卖方将

1. (争议双方的)正式协议，和解
    A settlement is an official agreement between two sides who were involved in a conflict or argument.

    e.g. Our objective must be to secure a peace settlement...
           我们一定要达成和平协议。
    e.g. They are not optimistic about a settlement of the eleven year conflict.
           他们不是很有信心能和平解决这场长达 11 年的纷争。

2. (通过赔偿等达成的)庭外和解
    A settlement is an agreement to end a disagreement or dispute without going to a court of law, for example by offering someone money.

settlement的解释

    e.g. She accepted an out-of-court settlement of £4,000.
           她同意支付 4,000 英镑的庭外和解赔偿金。
    e.g. ...a libel settlement.
           一宗诽谤案的庭外和解

3. (欠款的)偿付，支付，结算，清偿
    The settlement of a debt is the act of paying back money that you owe.

    e.g. ...ways to delay the settlement of debts.
           延期清偿债务的办法

4. 定居点;聚居地
    A settlement is a place where people have come to live and have built homes.

    e.g. The village is a settlement of just fifty houses.
           这个村子里只住了 50户人。
    e.g. ...a Muslim settlement.
           穆斯林聚居区

5. 移民;殖民;开拓
    The settlement of a group of people is the process in which they settle in a place where people from their country have never lived before.

    e.g. ...the settlement of immigrants in the occupied territories.
           向占领地移民的殖民开拓

1. termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

    Synonym: liquidation

2. the act of colonizing
    the establishment of colonies

    e.g. the British colonization of America

    Synonym: colonizationcolonisation

3. something settled or resolved
    the outcome of decision making

    e.g. they finally reached a settlement with the union
           they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences
           he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure

    Synonym: resolutionclosure

4. a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

5. a community of people smaller than a town

    Synonym: villagesmall town

6. 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

    e.g. the American colony in Paris

    Synonym: colony

7. an area where a group of families live together