hometown

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈhəʊm.taʊn]
• 美式音标 [ˈhoʊm.taʊn]
• 国际音标 ['həum'taun]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.家乡；故乡

同根派生

英汉例句

• The houses in my hometown were chiefly composed of wood.
  我家乡的房子过去多由木料制成.
• The crowd yelled when the hometown team scored a touchdown.
  当他们自己的队得了底线分时,人群高声呼喊起来.
• He returned to his hometown in the spring of 1969.
  他在1969年春天回到了故乡.
• We asked Jason to write an essay about his hometown and about his place in it.
  我们让贾森写一篇有关他的家乡和他自己的家的短文。
• I went to work as a painter in my hometown, Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania.
  我在家乡宾夕法尼亚州的纳特罗纳海茨当了个油漆匠。

词组短语

短语

• about hometown 介绍你的家乡;先容你的家乡;我的家乡;你的家乡
• Miss Hometown 故乡情
• CityVille Hometown 家乡小镇;城市小镇家乡;城市小镇;梦想乡
• Beautiful Hometown 美丽的家乡
• Hometown Hero 家乡英雄

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• the town or city that a person is from, especially the one in which they were born and lived while they were young

专业释义

文学

• 故乡

  The author concludes: this book is an affectionate portraiture of Hardy’s hometown and its people.
  因此，作者的结论是：本书是哈代对其故乡及故乡人的满怀深情的描述。

• 乡土

  This was a kind of attachment to one’s hometown and a kind of local spirit .
  它就是哈代所说的“世世代代对某一特定地点的土地的眷恋”，一种对故土的深沉的执着的依恋，一种乡土精神。

  法学

• 流出地