You can think of this phrase as putting a country into a family: one place is the mother, and someone or something else is her child. In the warm use, the child is a person — you came out of that country, you carry her language and her food, and the tie holds even after forty years away. In the cold use, the child is another country: an empire calls itself the mother and calls the land it rules a colony. Same picture, two very different reasons for using it, so the phrase can be full of love or full of power.
「mother country」可以想成把一個國家放進家庭的位置：一邊是母親，另一邊是她的孩子。溫的那個用法裡，孩子是人——你從那裡出來，帶著她的語言和口味，離開四十年那條線還在。冷的那個用法裡，孩子是另一個國家：帝國自稱母親，把它統治的地方叫作殖民地。同一張圖，兩種很不一樣的用意，所以這個詞可以滿是感情，也可以滿是權力。
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