hometown是什么意思？

hometown

英[ˈhəʊmtaʊn] 美[ˈhoʊmtaʊn]

• n. 家乡，故乡，“home town”的变体；

复数：hometowns;

例句

• Dad wants to get out of the rat race and move back to his hometown. 父亲想离开无休无止的竞争,回到他的故乡。
• He is keeping on the house in his hometown. 他把家乡的那栋房屋保留着。
• I often return in dreams to my hometown. 我常常在梦中回到我的故乡。
• They have been unjustly dispossessed of their hometown. 他们被无理赶出家园。
• This is the city flower of Quanzhou, my hometown. 这是我们泉州的市花, 叫做刺桐.
• His hometown is located in the north to the tropic of cancer. 他的家乡在北回归线的北面.
• Bilingual Time: Have you ever busked in your own hometown? 《双语时代》: 你曾在自己的家乡表演过街头艺术 吗 ?
• Supermarkets in her hometown even assisted Taylor in stuffing grocery bags with her flyers. 泰勒家乡的超级市场甚至帮她在购物袋里塞进她的传单.
• Australia is the hometown of kangaroos. 澳大利亚是袋鼠的故乡.
• He returned to his hometown in the spring of 1969. 他在1969年春天回到了故乡.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  家乡;故乡
  Someone's hometown is the town where they live or the town that they come from.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  家乡, 故乡, 老家
  The houses in my hometown were chiefly composed of wood. 我家乡的房子过去多由木料制成。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence;
  "he never went back to his hometown again"