- 1祖國（也說母國；祖國在台灣有時較政治，母國較中性）
Your motherland is the country where you were born, and that still feels like home in a deep way — not only the name on a passport, but the place your heart names when someone asks where you are from. People reach for this word when the feeling is strong: a song, a speech, a war, a person living far away who misses the food and the language. Though actually, English has a few words in this set and they do not all feel the same. Homeland is the quieter, more everyday one. is older and heavier; some countries have traditionally spoken of the country as a father, not a mother. Motherland sounds warmer, as if the country raised you. In ordinary talk today it can sound a little grand, even political, as if you were making a speech — many people would just say “my country” or “back home.” The tidy picture (one birth country, one strong bond) is tidier than life: some people who moved as children feel two motherlands, or none that fits.
組成mother + land. First written down in 1711. mother goes back through Old English mōdor; land is the country.
同家族的字
- motherthe first half: the country is spoken of as a mother
- landthe second half: the country itself
- fatherlandthe same pattern, with father instead of mother
- homelandthe same -land pattern; quieter and more common today
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
motherlandnoun/ˈmʌðɚˌlænd/
- 1
The country of one's ancestors.
- 2
The country of one's birth.
- 3
Country of origin.
- 4
Mother country in contrast to its colonies.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。