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单词 home ground
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Definition of home ground in English:

home ground

noun
  • 1A sports team's own ground.

    Anfield, Liverpool's home ground, is surrounded by residential streets
    as modifier Brisbane will have home ground advantage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He walked out to huge cheers on his home ground, but the Surrey man lasted just three balls.
    • Tunisia has won the African Cup of Nations on their home ground.
    • On their home ground, Lismore should beat Grafton.
    • They take on the Cougars at their home ground this Sunday.
    • She wants to compete at the world championships in Edmonton and possibly even the European championships on home ground in Munich.
    • They had the all-important benefit of home ground.
    • In a press conference at their home ground, he announced the club was on the verge of signing a foreign striker to sharpen their attack in front of goals.
    • They need to get a momentum going over the next 18 months to prepare for their defence of the trophy they won on home ground.
    • In 1926, much of Boston's home ground, Fenway Park, was destroyed by fire.
    • Making his first international appearance of the summer, he had an unhappy return on his home ground.
    1. 1.1mass noun A subject or area with which one is familiar or comfortable.
      he's on home ground making a realistic film about two infatuated people
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In Sibelius's Arioso, they are more on home ground and project the song's haunting sense of melancholy.
      • That was the first Verdi I ever did, with no rehearsal whatever, and I immediately felt on home ground.
      • With poetry and publishing, she is very much on home ground.
      • He takes a break from Hollywood comedies and returns to home ground: Hong Kong action films.
      • He figured health reform was his home ground.
      • The film-maker was not to recapture that first rapture in his later forays into home ground.
      • She wrote it out of an intuition that much of what she prizes about her home ground is imperiled.
      • His chosen home ground was Britain's political, social, and economic history throughout the 20th century.
      • It's no surprise to us or our engineers that Windows on Intel is faster—it's their home ground.
      • We are taking the lead in a market that was considered the home ground of our competitor.
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