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Your birthplace is simply the place where you were born — a city, a hospital, a country. It's also used more loosely for where something started, not just a person: you might call New Orleans 'the birthplace of jazz'.
出生地；(比喻)發源地
組成birth + place.
同家族的字
- birthdayboth use 'birth' — birthplace is where you were born, birthday is when
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
birthplacenoun/ˈbɝθˌpleɪs/
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The location where a person or an animal was born.
- Portsmouth was Charles Dickens’ birthplace.
- At Scotswood, the main line crosses to the south bank of the Tyne, but an alternative route, on the north side of the river, used by a few trains, rejoins the Carlisle line beyond North Wylam, the birthplace of George Stephenson.
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The location where something was created or devised.
- Coney Island was the birthplace of the hot dog.
- Most foreigners who have heard of Bhutan know two things: the country charges international visitors a $100/day sustainable development fee (aka tourist tax), and that it is the birthplace of the Gross National Happiness Index, a system intended to look after the well-being of citizens and the environment.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。