| 词汇 | hometown |
| 释义 | hometown noun[ C ] uk /ˈhəʊm.taʊn/ us /ˈhoʊm.taʊn/ the town or city that a person is from, especially the one in which they were born and lived while they were young: 家乡，故乡 He was born in Miami, but he considers New York his hometown since he's lived there most of his life.他出生在迈阿密，但却将纽约视作自己的故乡，因为他一生的大部分时间都生活在那里。 Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis anti-city anti-urban backwater boom town burgher Cantabrigian central city civic conurbation garden city multi-city municipal native place non-municipal open city retirement community small-town smoke urbanite hometown | American Dictionaryhometown noun[ C ] us/ˈhoʊmˈtɑʊn/ the town or city you are from, esp. the one in which you were born and lived while you were young Examples of hometownhometown It is interesting to note that this progressive union was firmly focused on the urban public sphere, and had no link with any particular hometown. Nationalist political parties also actively worked on gaining the support of the hometown associations. His hometown internist had now arrived and was checking him out. According to one significant criterion, a cor relation between the size of a club's hometown and the league it played in began to appear. The second feature is that urban migrants used development projects as a justification for claiming a role in the government of the hometown. I then introduce the hometown associations founded by the migrants and examine their role in political representation in townships and villages. Another way of acquiring business contacts and social security is through so-called ethnic or hometown associations. First, they helped determine the actual boundaries of the hometown and the procedures for political representation in that town. I opened each in turn and selected those which recognisably dealt with an individual and named a hometown in one of my three target areas. Many unions attempted to operate as a vehicle for urban dwellers to have some say in the affairs of the hometowns. To be sure, the urban migrants, as ' sons abroad ' and kin, were linked into their hometowns already, but these interconnections were fraught with tensions. Some associations had even been established with the specific purpose of influencing political affairs in the hometown. These are the hometowns of the eight men - the place where people start and ideally end their lives and perform all major life-cycle rituals. In the personal background section of the questionnaire, students reported their hometowns when they were young, age 4 to 13. Many railwaymen, with their self-consciously modernizing outlooks, also began to perceive their hometown relatives as backward. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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