home
n
1
(a) [C, U] place where one lives, esp with one's family 家
The nurse visits patients in their homes. 護士對病人進行家訪.
He left home (ie left his parents and began an independent life) at sixteen. 他在十六歲時離開了家(離開雙親獨立生活).
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my home address 我家的地址.
(b) [C] house, flat, etc 房子、 住所等
Homes for Sale, eg on an estate agent's notice. 房屋待售(如房地產經紀人之告示上所標明者).
[attrib 作定語]
a home improvement grant 房屋改進裝修補助金.
(c) [C] (infml 口) place where an object is stored 存物處
I must find a home for all these tins. 我得找個地方存放這些罐頭.
2 [C, U] district or country where one was born or where one has lived for a long time or to which one feels attached 家鄉; 故鄉; 老家
She was born in London, but she now looks on Paris as her home. 她生在倫敦, 但現在把巴黎看成是她的家鄉.
She lives a long way from home. 她遠遠地離開故鄉在外地生活.
He left India for home, ie for his own country. 他離開印度回國去了.
3 [C]
(a) institution for people needing care or rest 為需要照顧或休息的人們設立的機構
a children's home 兒童之家
a home for the blind 盲人院
an old people's home 老年人之家.
(b) institution providing accommodation for workers 為工人提供膳宿服務的機構
a sailor's home 海員之家.
4 [C]
(a) place where an animal or a plant is native or most common; habitat (動植物的)生息地, 棲息處
The tiger's home is in the jungle. 老虎生活在叢林里.
(b) place from which sth originates 發源地; 發祥地
Greece is the home of democracy. 希臘是民主的發祥地.
5 [U]
(a) (in sport and in various games) place where a player is safe, cannot be caught, etc (體育活動及各種游戲中)安全、 不會被捉住等之處.
(b) finishing point in a race (賽跑的)終點.
6 (idm 習語) at home
(a) in the house, flat, etc 在家里
Is there anybody at home? 有人在家嗎?
(b) at one's ease, as if in one's own home (像在自己家里一樣)自在, 無拘束
Make yourself at home! 不要拘束!
They always make us feel very much at home. 他們總是使我們感到非常自在.
(c) (of football matches, etc) played in the town, etc to which the team belongs (指足球比賽等)在主場進行的
Is our next match at home or away? 我們下一?quot;熱竊謚鞒〗心? 還是在客場進行?
(d) (fml 文) expecting and ready to receive visitors 期待并準備接待來訪者
Mrs Hill is not at home to anyone except close relatives. 希爾夫人不會客, 但近親除外. at home in sth familiar and relaxed with sth 熟練掌握某事物; 駕輕就熟
Is it difficult to feel at home in (ie confident when using) a foreign language? 精通一門外語難不難? charity begins at home => charity. close/near to home close to the point at which one is directly affected 即將受到觸及; 臨到自己頭上
Her remarks were embarrassingly close to home. 她說的那些話很露骨而使人感到很尷尬.
The threat of war is coming steadily nearer to home. 戰爭的威脅正在一步步地臨近. eat sb out of house and home => eat. an Englishman's home is his castle => Englishman (English). a `home bird person who likes to spend as much time as possible at home because he is happiest there 喜歡待在家里的人. a ,home from `home place where one is as happy, comfortable, etc as in one's own home 像自己家里一樣愜意、 舒適等的處所
You will find our hotel a true home from home! 本旅社將使你感到賓至如歸! a ,home `truth unpleasant fact about a person told to him by sb else (從他人那里聽到的有關自己的)不愉快的事實
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?? 擴展釋義
*[h?um]n. 家, 避難所, 故鄉a. 家庭的, 國內的, 打中目標的ad. 在家, 在本國, 打中目標地【計】 返回始位相關詞組: see sb home at home home free make oneself at home bring home to sb home in on sth on one's way home