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home ORIGINHhEJm, $hoJmnsomeone's or something's place of origin, or the place where a person feels they belong发源地，产地，故乡Britain has been my home for ten years (=I have lived in Britain for ten years). [C]我在英国住了10年。I live in London, but my home (=where I was born) is in Yorkshire. [U]我住在伦敦，但我家乡在约克郡。I was actually born in New Zealand, but I've lived in England for so long that it feels like home now. [U]其实我生于新西兰，但我在英格兰住了很长时间，感觉像故乡一般。Australia is the home of the kangaroo. [U]澳大利亚是袋鼠的故乡。If you are (Br) home and dry/(Aus) home and hosed, you have successfully completed something.大获成功We just have to finish this section, then we're home and dry.我们只需完成这一部分，然后就大功告成了。(Am infml) If you are home free, you are certain that what you are trying to do will be finished or successful.确信即将成功的，胜利在望的Once you leave the main road and cross the bridge, you're home free --we live just three houses further on.你一旦离开大路过了桥，便胜利在望了----再往前走3幢房子就是我们的家。(Am) A home run or a homer is a point scored in baseball by hitting the ball so far that you have time to run all the way round the four corners of the playing field before it is returned.(棒球)本垒打The home stretch is the last part of something which is being done.(事情的)最后部分It's taken three months so far, but we're on the home stretch now.我们为此花了3个月的时间，不过现在事情已接近尾声了。A home truth is a piece of information which is not pleasant or welcome, but is true.令人不快的事实He decided it was time to tell her a few home truths.他决定告诉她不愉快事实的时间到了。"Home, Sweet Home" (title of a song written by J.H.Payne, 1823)《甜蜜的家乡》( J·H·佩恩的歌名)"Home Alone" (film title, 1990)《独自在家》(电影片名)"Home is the place where, when you have to go there / They have to take you in" (Robert Frost in the poem The Death of the Hired Man, 1914).“家是你在需要时去的地方/他们不会让你失望。”(罗伯特·弗罗斯特的诗《雇工之死》)"Keep the home fires burning ... Till the boys come Home" (from the song Till the Boys Come Home! written by Lena Guilbert Ford, 1914).“把家里的火烧旺…直到男人们归来。”( 选自莉娜·吉尔伯特·福特的歌曲《直到男人们归来》)" You can't go Home Again" (title of a book by Thomas Wolfe, 1940)《你不能再回家乡》(托马斯·乌尔夫的小说 )"Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?" (song written by Hughie Cannon, 1902)“你回家吗，比尔·贝利?”( H·坎农的歌)
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