橘子朗文词典

mother country

M 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈmʌð.ə ˌkʌn.tri]
  • 美式音标 [ˈmʌð.ɚ ˌkʌn.tri]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • 祖国；母国；发源地

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Though far away from their mother country, their celebrations are just as authentically Chinese.
    虽然远离祖国，他们的庆祝活动也同样原汁原味中国味。
  • As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions.
    随着对祖国的抱怨的不断升级，他温文尔雅的选择了抵制这些限制，但是又不失坚定。
  • The Azores and Madeira, ethnically and geographically closest to the mother country, are still part of Portugal.
    而种族和地理上都接近于母国葡萄牙的亚速尔和马德拉则仍是葡萄牙的一部分。

    • 原声例句

  • And as they set off across the wild country of west Texas, their mother and father could hardly hear a thing.
  • Leyda Lopez came to Sunday's rally with her mother who entered the country illegally from Equador nearly two decades ago.

    • 权威例句

  • The other problem with Mexicans is that they retained ties to the mother country.
    ECONOMIST: America's population
  • Mr Ghemawat has tried to measure the links between Britain's former colonies and the rejected mother country.
    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

词组短语

    短语

  • mother r country 故国;祖国
  • Mother Lode Country 马瑟洛德地区
  • The Mother Miriam Country 母仪全国
  • voice from the mother country 祖国之声
  • Her mother 's country 妈妈的别

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • the country where you were born or that you feel is your original home

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • Someone's mother country is the country in which they or their ancestors were born and to which they still feel emotionally linked, even if they live somewhere else.
  • If you refer to the mother country of a particular state or country, you are referring to the very powerful country that used to control its affairs.